Akkineni Nagarjuna has made his comeback in Bollywood after a gap of 15 years and has signed an upcoming big budget drama Brahmastra, which is being produced by Baahubali distributor Karan Johar. According to the latest update Brahmastra is being made on the lavish budget of Rs 350 Cr and the makers have allotted Rs 100 Cr only for its VFX work. The sources say that Nagarjuna will make his screen presence in Brahmastra only for 10 minutes and he is being paid huge remuneration for his crucial role. Nagarjuna starrer Brahmastra is going to be very heavy on the VFX effects.
Dharma Productions’s Brahmastra (which was previously given the tentative title ‘Dragon’) is touted to be the most ambitious project ever for the producer Karan Johar, as well as the director of this film, Ayan Mukerji. Sanju fame Ranbir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan and Alia Bhatt are playing the lead roles and Nagin fame Mouni Roy, who is making her debut with Akshay Kumar starerr Gold, is playing important role in this film Brahmastra, which is slated to release on 15th August, 2019. Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is also the part of this film. Brahmastra is a fantasy-adventure-superhero flick. It is heard that the makers are also planning to dub it in Telugu language also.
Meanwhile, Brahmastra also reunites Akkineni Nagarjuna with Big B with whom he had previously co-starred in Khuda Gawah (1992). Recently Ranbir Kapoor said, “Brahmastra is actually a supernatural romantic fairy tale at heart. Ayan Mukerji will never make a character that doesn’t have truth to it, or which is unbelievable. It’s too early to talk about the film.”
Meanwhile Akkineni Nagarjuna who was last seen in Ram Gopal Varma’s directorial venture Officer, is currently sharing the screen space with Natural Star Nani in upcoming film Devadasu, in the direction of Sriram Adittya. Nagarjuna is playing gangster whereas Gentleman star Nani will be seen playing a doctor.