Ram Charan Teja

The director seeks divine intervention to ward off the evil eye after a string of unfortunate incidents have put the film in limbo

The fate of a film hangs in balance until the day it hits the screens. Before that, just about anything can go wrong, and when it does, the hapless director better be prepared. It seems Apoorva Lakhia and his ambitious remake of Zanjeer seem to be suffering a similar fate.
At the very start it was the writers of the original film Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar who objected to the remake as they believed it was important that they be consulted by the producers since they had a moral right to the characters and the film’s story. When that issue got resolved, the movie got delayed due to its lead actors suffering back-to-back injuries. At first, it was Ram Charan Teja who was injured while shooting for Nayak and took time to recover and join the cast of Zanjeer. Next was Sonu Sood, who suffered a horrific accident in a Celebrity Cricket League match in Dubai, which put him out of action for almost a month. And as the injury prone cast made its way back to the sets, the film which was already lagging behind in its shooting schedule, suffered two more blows. While Prakash Mehra’s sons picked up a fight over the film’s rights and had the movie trailers barred from being released, one of the main stars of the movie, Sanjay Dutt was sentenced by the Supreme Court to five years imprisonment for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. Read More