After the release of 'Shankar Dada Zindabad',
Mega Star Chiranjeevi took a long gap for his next film.

Several reasons, including problems with in
the family, launch of Ram Charan Teja
as hero and rumours about floating a
new political party — had their impact
on the next film by Chiranjeevi.

But somehow there was a lot of
delay in his next film. At present
the Mega Star had completed
148 films and this would be the
149th film. Hence the responsibility
of scripting a good story for the
film was handed over to
Paruchuri Brothers.

In view of the political
aspirations of Chiranjeevi, the
writers duo prepared four different
scripts and one among them was
okayed by the former.

'Adhinayakudu' was confirmed as the working title of the movie.

Presently, Paruchuri brothers are busy in giving final touches for the script and they reportedly left to Bangkok for details.

Though the names of VV Vinayak, Krishnavamsi and Gunasekhar came up for consideration to direct the 149th movie, the opportunity landed in the lap of N Shankar, who had directed films like 'Encounter, Sriramulaiah and Jayam Manadera'.

Director N Shankar also accompanied the Paruchuri Brothers for first hand information on the script. The shooting of the film is likely to begin during May and would be completed by December.

The film is most likely to be released before the forthcoming general elections. Aswinidutt, Allu Aravind, K Raghavendra Rao are jointly producing the movie.