After teasing with a pre-look poster, the makers of Telugu star Nikhil Siddhartha’s 20th movie, Swayambhu, released its first look on the actor’s birthday on Thursday, and its motion poster was unveiled on Friday.
Directed by Bharat Krishnamachari and produced by Bhuvan and Sreekar under the Pixel Studios banner, with Tagore Madhu presenting it, shooting for the lavishly mounted pan-India historical drama will start in August this year.
Swayambhu means self-born or ‘the one that is created of its own accord’. Nikhil is seen as a ferocious warrior on the battlefield.
Sporting long hair and a grimace, he is seen riding a horse with a spear in one hand and a shield in the other.
It is said to be the most expensive movie in Nikhil’s career, with cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa, music from Ravi Basrur and dialogues by Vasudev Muneppagari.
Nikhil’s upcoming new release will be Spy, centred around the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
