Pawan Kalyan, who was last seen in Trivikram Srinivas’ directorial venture Agnyaathavaasi, will be returning to the silver screen through the remake of Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu starrer courtroom drama Pink. The latest news is that Sriram Venu, who was earlier signed to helm Allu Arjun’ Icon, will be donning the director’s hat for this National-award winning Hindi courtroom drama Pink remake starring Power Star Pawan Kalyan, which is tentatively titled as PSPK 26.
Recently it was heard that Sriram Venu’ forthcoming film, Icon, starring Allu Arjun, has been shelved, but the sources say that the film will take off when Sriram Venu wraps up Pawan Kalyan’ Pink remake. It means, first Sriram Venu will helm the movie for Pawan Kalyan and later he will start to work on Allu Arjun starrer Icon.
Ever since Power Star Pawan Kalyan decided to remake the Bollywood courtroom drama Pink, fans have been waiting to know who’d helm it. Now it has been finalized that it will be director Sriram Venu, fresh from the super success of MCA (Middle-class Abaayi) starring Natural Star Nani.
Pawan Kalyan chose Sriram Venu as he is convinced that the director can do complete justice to the script of Pink remake. The makers are planning to make a few changes in the script. Dil Raju will be bankrolling Pink remake, which will be presented by Boney Kapoor. The Telugu version is likely to have dialogues by Trivikram Srinivas. Pawan Kalyan has given a 20-day call sheet and the film is expected to go on floors later this year.
Currently, Allu Arjun is working with Trivikram Srinivas and after wrapping up the shoot of this film, he will start the shoot of Sukumar’s upcoming untitled film, which has Rashmika Mandanna in the female lead. Icon is the fourth celebration between actor Allu Arjun and producer Dil Raju after ‘Arya’, ‘Parugu’ and ‘DJ aka Duvvada Jagannadham’.