‘Sankranthiki Vasthunnam’ to release on 14 January. (X)
As the title suggests, Venkatesh and Anil Ravipudi’s next collaboration Sankranthiki Vasthunnam has secured the festival release.
It is set to hit the screens on 14 January, 2025. Sankrnthi, the harvest festival of the Telugu states has always been a major release window for tollywood.
Keeping up the practice, this time, too, a slew of films are releasing on Sankranthi, with Sankranthiki Vastunnam and Game Changer being big hero ventures.
Interestingly, both the big hero ventures are being produced by Dil Raju and Shirish under the banner of Sri Venkateswara Creations.
Due to this, there were speculations that Sankranthiki Vasthunnam might be delayed, however, to the fans’ delight, both are releasing with a gap of four days.
Referring to the same, Dil Raju speaking to the media on Wednesday, 20 November, said, “Anil played smart. Fearing that I might postpone the film, he finalised this title, forcing me to release it during Sankranthi.”
“Jokes apart, Sankranthi has always been a fruitful season for all of us here, Anil, Venkatesh, and me. This film offers full entertainment; family audiences will enjoy it,” he added.
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Comeback of Ramana Gogula
The film will also mark the comeback of singer Ramana Gogula, who sang for a film last in 2013 and will now sing for Venkatesh.
Ramana Gogula last sang for Venkatesh in 2006 for Lakshmi. The duo is coming together after 18 years.
Incidentally, the first song of Gogula was also for Venkatesh for the film Premante Idera (1998).
Anil Ravipudi has previously collaborated with Venkatesh twice, for F2 (2019) and F3 (2023), both of which were comedies. However, this time, they are coming up with a crime comedy.
Aishwarya Rajesh and Meenakshi Chaudhary are the female leads, with Upendra Limaye, Rajendra Prasad, Sai Kumar, Naresh, VT Ganesh, Muralidhar Goud, Pammi Sai, Sai Srinivas, Anand Raj, and Chaitanya Jonnalagadda playing other prominent roles.
Bheems Ceciroleo composed the music, Sameer Reddy was in charge of the cinematography, and AS Prakash led the production design.
(Edited by Sumavarsha)
