Reba Monica John, the cousin of Anu Emmanuel, is all set to make her Telugu debut with an upcoming sport based drama, ‘Jersey’ in which Natural star Nani will play the lead role. Reba Monica John is well known face for Malayalam and Tamil audiences, and now she is going to romance with Nani is cricket based film Jersey. Before essaying the lead role in the movies, Reba Monica John was too seen in few advertisement in which Dhatri Hair Oil was one of her notable works. In 2013, she won the 2nd runner-up title of the reality series Midukki which launched on Mazhavil Manorama.
In 2016, Reba Monica John made her debut to the Malayalam film industry through Jacobinte Swargarajyam which is helmed by Vineeth Sreenivasan. The actress essayed the role named Chippy. The movie was a big success in the box office and her second movie with Neeraj Madhav, ‘Paippine Chuvattile Pranayam’ was also a hit in the box office.
In the month of June, Nani confirmed the news of his upcoming film Jersey on his Twitter. He wrote, “#JERSEY.” It will be helmed by Sowtham Tinnanuri, who directed Malli Raava starring Sumanth and Aakanksha Singh. Jersey will be bankrolled by Sithara Entertainments banner. Sitara Entertainment also wrote on the wall of twitter, “We are very happy to be associated with Natural Star @NameisNani garu for such a prestigious venture #Jersey. #Jersey will be very high on emotions and will have never before visuals in this genre. Directed by @gowtam19 & Produced by @sitharaents @vamsi84.”
Interestingly, Anu Emmanuel has also worked with same production house for the movie Agnyaathavaasi and shared the screen space with Power Star Pawan Kalyan. Earlier Anu Emmanuel and Nani have also worked together for romantic and comedy entertainer Majnu, which was decent hit at the box office.
Meanwhile Nani is working with Akkineni Nagarjuna for upcoming multistarrer Devadasu, in the direction of Sriram Aditya and is currently hosting the reality show Bigg Boss 2 Telugu.