Legend Takes Balayya Over The 100-Days
Nandamuri Balakrishna has reason to feel more than
thrilled this week, what with his 97 film, the Boyapati Sreenu-directed
‘Legend’ crossing the 100-day mark in 31 theatres across Andhra Pradesh
and Telangana.
Produced by the 14 Reels Entertainment
under Vaarahi Chalana Chitram banners by Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta
and Anil Sunkara, the film that falls in the action/family drama genre
piped the 100-day post.
‘Legend’, that has Sonal
Chauhan and Radhika Apte as ‘Balayya’ Babu’s co-stars, apart from
Jagapathi Babu and Brahmanandam, hit the theatres on March 28. But
interestingly, trade figures indicate that of the 31 theatres, 25 are
what are called ‘direct theatres’ - as in venues where the movie was
shown 100 days without a break.
The last Telugu movie
to hit a century was the Trivikram Srinivas-directed ‘Atharintiki
Daaredi’ with Pawan Kalyan and Samantha in the lead, that was released
on July 27, 2013. Of the 32 theatres where it ran 100 days, only 18 were
‘direct’!
RGV’s experiments with films
Call
it marketing gimmick or plain creativity, everything and anything about
director Ram Gopal Verma makes news. His latest horror-thriller flick,
‘Ice Cream’, is grabbing headlines for alleged nude shots of actress
Tejaswi.
But RGV being that unconventional director,
there has to be something unique about the way such intimate scenes are
canned. According to sources, the director along with the crew had left
the camera and the actress in a room after explaining the scene, thus
giving the liberty to the actress to shoot the scene as per her
convenience.
For another shot which needed the
actress to be spooked, the director left her alone in a dark room
surrounded by cameras in an independent bungalow in Film Nagar so as to
literally scare the girl. The maverick director is also known for his
quick pace of film-making. It is learnt that he had shot the entire
movie in less than two weeks with most of the scenes filmed in just one
location.