Puri Jagannadh ‘planning’ Movie With Salman Khan – FilmyVoice
After ‘Liger’ catastrophe, Tollywood filmmaker Puri Jagannadh is alleged to be planning a movie with Bollywood star Salman Khan. There may be buzz within the Telugu movie trade circles that the director narrated a script to Salman and the latter evinced curiosity within the mission. Nevertheless, there isn’t any official affirmation but.
Reviews of Puri Jagannadh and Salman becoming a member of arms have been doing rounds ever because the Bollywood star acted in ‘Needed’, a remake of Tollywood filmmaker’s ‘Pokiri’ starring Mahesh Babu.
Prabhu Deva directed ‘Needed’, which was one of many profitable films of 2009. However there was no collaboration between the 2.
There’s, nevertheless, been a recent spherical of hypothesis about Puri Jagannadh approaching Salman with a script. Curiously, they each acted in megastar Chiranjeevi’s ‘Godfather’. The filmmaker performed the function of journalist whereas Salman appeared in an prolonged cameo.
If Puri and Salman staff up for the proposed enterprise, this will likely assist the Tollywood director to beat the tough patch he has been going by in latest occasions. His latest film ‘Liger’ starring Vijay Deverakonda bombed on the box-office.
The Hindi-Telugu film which additionally had American boxer Mike Tyson in an prolonged cameo was reportedly produced with a price range of about Rs 125 crore. The movie starring Ananya Panday within the feminine lead had mega shoots in Las Vegas and the makers had big expectations from it.
The movie not solely bombed however director Puri Jagannadh, actor-turned-producer Charmme Kaur and Vijay Deverakonda had been grilled by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the suspected violations of Overseas Alternate Administration Act (FEMA).
They had been reportedly questioned concerning the supply of funding into ‘Liger’ which was launched in August this yr.
The ED officers mentioned to have questioned the director and producer concerning the allegations that crores of rupees had been invested into the making of the film from international nations allegedly in violation of FEMA.
That is the second time that Puri Jagannadh and Charmee Kaur have appeared earlier than the ED. Final yr, the company questioned them together with different movie personalities relating to allegations of cash within the drug case allegedly involving celebrities.
Earlier, the Particular Investigation Staff of the State Prohibition and Excise Division had additionally grilled them after registering a case in 2017.
