Hanu-Man is not a Pan-India film, but a Pan-World film: Director Prashanth Varma

Creative director Prashanth Varma is coming up with original Indian superhero film Hanu-Man. This is his second movie with the talented hero Teja Sajja, after the blockbuster Zombie Reddy. K Niranjan Reddy of PrimeShow Entertainment is producing the movie where Amritha Aiyer will be seen as the heroine.On Monday, the makers released the film’s teaser and it has got a thumping response from all the corners.

At the film’s teaser launch event, hero Teja Sajja began with chanting a sloka of Lord Hanuman and said, “Do we have a bigger superhero than Lord Hanuman? I bow down to the messenger of Shri Ram.’ For youngsters of this generation, Spiderman and Batman are the superheroes, because we’ve seen them in cinemas. But they got inspired by our culture and our Hanuman. Their superheroes are fictional, but Hanuman is our truth, our culture and our history. Hanuman is our OG superhero. The story is about what a youngster will do when he gets superpowers by the grace of such a great almighty.

I can’t simply thank Prashanth Varma for believing me that I can do justice to this film.”
Meanwhile, on the collaboration with Prashanth, actor Teja Sajja, who began his career with Oh Baby in 2019 said, “This is our second film together. Prashanth is a great craftsman. It’s a learning process every day and we enjoy working with him. We did this movie with honesty and humility. Hanuman is humble and honest, but he’s mighty. Our film is also the same, we did it humbly and honestly, but it’s going to be mighty. I believe it will give you a visual feast. Our young and dashing producer Niranjan surprises us with his passion and perception on cinema.”

The film also stars Amritha Aiyer, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Getup Sreenu, and Vinay Rai.
Speaking on the occasion Prashanth Varma said, “Jai Sriram. Hanuman has been my favorite god since my childhood. I’m happy to do such a big film about him. I thank my entire team for all their support, from the very beginning. It’s the producer who needs to believe when making such a big film. Hanu-Man is not just a Telugu film. It has to be a Pan world film, not just Pan-India either. He’s the biggest superhero. He is more powerful than Superman and Batman. We’ve many Marvel and DC superhero universes. I have liked mythology since my childhood. There is a mythological reference in my previous films as well. For the first time, I’m doing a film on the mythological character Hanu-Man. It’s the first of many to come.”

He further continued, “Usually, people say that I’m infamous for making better teasers and trailers than actual films. But for the first time, I believe I made a film better than the teaser and trailer. The trailer will be better than the teaser and the movie will be better than the trailer. I have to thank my producer Niranjan Reddy who supported me day and night to make this film happen. He believed the movie more than me. So, I’m so fortunate to find a producer like him. I and Teja Sajja together did Zombie Reddy earlier.

We know him as a child artist. Many people have asked me why I cast Teja in this film. I wanted an underdog. We unknowingly developed a liking for Teja. There is an unknown positive feeling we have about him. We want to see him become successful, might be in cinema as a character or outside life as well. He’s got the charm and I felt he will be a perfect fit for the character. We didn’t think about budget and market while doing this film.”