The most prestigious movie of Balakrishna ‘Srirama Rajyam’ directed by Bapu and produced by Yalamanchi Saibabu on the banner of Sri Saibaba Movies is presently shooting at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad.

It is well aware that the film is the remake of the yesteryears’ classic ‘Lava Kusa’. The film, which is a multi-starrer, had several top class artistes in different roles.

Akkineni Nageswara Rao is playing the role of Valmiki and Nayanatara is playing the role of Sita. Presently some combination scenes involving the characters of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana (Srikant), Bharata (Saikumar), Satrughna and Anjaneya are being shot in the present schedule and the shooting would continue till June 29 with which the director is planning to wrap up the shooting.

Here is another interesting news about the film. The crown used by the thespian, the late NT Rama Rao, was polished and is being used for this film by his son Balakrishna.

Illayaraja for the first time scored music for a mythological movie, while the late Ramana had completed the penning of the script few days before his death.

The producer is making efforts to release the film in August.