Nandamuri Balakrishna Directorial 'Nartanashala' Will Hit The OTT On 24th October
It is already known that Tollywood ace actor Nandamuri Balakrishna has tried to remake and direct his father's senior NTR's epic movie 'Nartanashala'. But unfortunately the movie stopped in the shooting stage itself as beautiful late actress Soundarya died in a plane crash. She was roped in to play the role of 'Draupadi' and Balakrishna who was deeply shocked with her sudden demise has shelved the movie. He also doled out in an interview that, there is no other actress who can replace Soundarya's role in this movie, thus he doesn't want to continue the shoot.
Balakrishna took to his Facebook page and announced this happy news
He wrote, "My favorite movie is my father's dance hall. I got to know that the movie was started in my direction. Long time you've been interested in seeing the scenes you've filmed for that movie. For all your wish this dance hall movie is 17 minutes long scenes will be released by Shreyas ET in this Vijayadasami gift in NBK theatre. Me as Arjuna, Draupadi as Soundarya, Bheemudi Sri Hari, Sarath Babu garu will be seen as Dharma Raju. Decided to use some of the amount collected by this picture for charities. Your wish to see the dance hall scenes for many years is going to be fulfilled on 24th of this month.
I am
Nandamuri Balakrishna".
Only 17 minutes of the movie was shot before the sudden demise of Soundarya. Balakrishna the role of Arjuna, Srihari essayed the role of 'Bhima', Uday Kiran as Abhimanyudu, Sai Kumar as Duryodhanudu, Asin as Uttara, Sarath Babu as Dharmaraju, Kota Srinivasa Rao as Virata Raju and veteran director K Vishwanath in another important role.
Off late, on the demand of his fans, Balakrishna has decided to release the 17-minute movie online on NBK theatre on 24th October as the Dussehra special movie. This movie will be presented by Shreyas ET platform. Balakrishna revealed that apart of the amount collected by this picture will be given to charities.
Tollywood beautiful actress Soundarya died on 17th April, 2004 in a plane crash. She was travelling from Karimnagar to Bangalore in the plane along with her brother Amarnath. Both of them wanted to participate in the election campaign to support BJP Party.
With this movie, we can once again witness late Soundarya on the big screens…