NTR30 could be Koratala Siva’s reinvention

Jr NTR’s next film is with Koratala Siva. On May 20, a lot of hitherto unknown details of the project will be divulged by the makers marking Tarak’s birthday.

Director Koratala Siva has been emphasizing that the film will be a high-voltage entertainer. By high-voltage, our directors mean out-and-out mass action/drama. In his latest media interaction, Siva even indicated, although indirectly, that ‘Janatha Garage’ didn’t fully milk the potential of the Nandamuri actor. “I know his potential. NTR30 will be beyond ‘Janatha Garage’,” Siva suggested.

While the director is not writing the film with the conscious purpose of impressing the pan-Indian audience, the producers of the movie and Tarak must have long conveyed to him to do so. After a film like ‘Roudram Ranam Rudhiram’, would the ‘Aravindha Sametha’ actor squander away his market by doing a Telugu-only movie? No.

If Koratala Siva ensures explosive action scenes and high drama in NTR30, it will be a solid self-reinvention. The kind of mellowed heroism he highlighted in some of his previous movies, especially ‘Srimanthudu’ and ‘Bharat Ane Nenu’, will be put aside.

Siva’s ‘Acharya’ hits the screens this Friday.