Shakthi gets a fancy price for overseas rights?

  • IndiaGlitz, [Saturday,March 26 2011]

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It is well aware that the NTR-Ileana starrer ‘Shakthi’ had completed all the formalities including censor and is ready for release.

The film had created a record of shooting in as many number of locations and was made with a highest-ever budget in the Telugu film industry.

Directed by Meher Ramesh and produced by C Aswinidutt on the banner of Vyjayanti Movies, the film had done a very good business.

The producer in order to recover his investment made a wise plan and had dubbed the film into Tamil as well and is planning to release the film within a day’s gap as ‘Om Shakthi’.

The Telugu version is slated for release on April 1.

Another interesting point to note here is that the overseas rights of the film were sold for Rs 2.15 crore and the project was bagged by Ficus Entertainments.

Prabhu, Sonu Sood, Jackie Shroff, Nazar, S P Balasubramaniam, Manju Bhargavi, Manjari Fadnis, Pooja Bedi and others are in the cast.

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