Mahesh Babu and Venkatesh will have to wait for some more weeks. Though Srikanth Addala had planned to start with the making of Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’s first schedule on Dec. 15, it seems he and the entire unit have to wait till the second week of January for a particular reason: Samantha Ruth Prabhu has no dates for Tollywood’s first mega multi-starrer.

Consequently, the shooting has been put on hold for some days. Samantha, the most hard-working actress that Mahesh had ever worked with (in Prince's own words), is currently shooting for Autonagar Surya (where she is paired with Naga Chaitanya).

Coming to Venky, he is awaiting the release of Bodyguard on Jan. 12. He has an untitled film to be directed by Meher Ramesh; he will juggled SVSC and this one from Jan. Mahesh, who toiled along with Puri to complete The Businessman on schedule, awaits the biggest theatrical release in the history of Tollywood on Jan. 11.

He is getting to act with Samantha so very early after Dookudu. Meanwhile, Amala Paul has been finalized to play Venky’s wife in the movie, which is produced by Dil Raju on a vast scale.