The reverberations of the Pushpaa/RRR mega-success are being heard loud and clear.Several Bollywood filmmakers have gone to Allu Arjun with proposals for his Hindi debut . While Arjun is yet to give his nod to a Hindi project, another Telugu superstar Ram Charan is working in Tamil-Telugu super-director Shankar’s next untitled project where Ram Charan plays a double role.
The film will be made in Hindi and Telugu to tap into Ram Charan’s post-RRR pan-India market.
For those who came in late, Shankar is the maverick director of Indian(dubbed into Hindi as Hindustani) , Jeans ,Nayak and Robot .
His new project with Ram Charan is tentatively titled RC15.Sources say, Ram Charan will make another attempt at a Hindi debut with this project. In 2013 Ram Charan made his disastrous Bollywood debut with a remake of the Amitabh Bachchan cult hit Zanjeer.
When I had asked Ram Charan after Zanjeer whether he would like to return to Bollywood his reply was: “Why not? But it all depends on what I am offered. I am not tempted to tap the Hindi-speaking market for a Pan-India audience. Any film in any Indian language can be pan-India ,as Baahubali proved.”
After the pan-India success of Rajamouli’s RRR, Ram Charan is ready to take on the Hindi belt again.