'Billa' in Vizag

  • IndiaGlitz, [Thursday,October 16 2008]

‘Billa’, a Tamil movie is now being remade in Telugu starring Prabhas and Anushka in the lead cast. Namitha is restating the same role of CJ again from the former ‘Billa’. The movie made earlier in Tamil starred Ajith and Nayanthara and was directed by Vishnuvardhan.

The Telugu ‘Billa’ is being directed by Meher Ramesh, the man behind ‘Kanthri’. Gopikrishna Movies serves host for the banner of the production house of Prabhod and Narendra.

The film was launched on 9th this month on the eve of VijayaDasami. A shooting schedule is planned to take place at the locales of Vizag from 20th to 27th of this month. During this schedule, a song will be reeled featuring hero Prabhas and Anushka, choreographed by Prem Rakshith. Adding to this, a fight sequence is planned to be shot in the same location.

Followed by this, shooting is planned at Malaysia, Bangkok and Dubai. An interesting scoop is, the script has already been made titled as ‘Don’ twice in Hindi and titled ‘Billa’ twice in Tamil. All of those were blockbuster hits in their respective languages. This fifth remake of this film, for which Hollywood technicians are working, is going to be made on high standards.

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