They were thick friends once. Now they barely see eye to eye. Although on public forums, they praise each other but inside their offices, only ‘thitlu’ fly. We are talking about actor-producer Kalyan Ram and star director Surender Reddy.
The bone of contention is the budget of their big film, ‘Kick 2’ starring Ravi Teja and Rakul Preet Singh.
Ravi Teja’s market is in the range of Rs 25 Crs – 30 Crores (maximum). But the budget of ‘Kick 2’ reportedly shot up to Rs 38 crores.
Kalyan Ram has been blaming Surender Reddy for spending excessively, not considering the market. Distributors who agreed to pay certain amount to areas in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have reduced their price.
Added to this, the film has landed in another problem. As ‘Baahubali’ releasing on July 10th and ‘Srimanthudu’ in the same month, distributors are not in favour of releasing the ‘Kick 2’ this month or July. This is like adding salt to injury for Kalyan Ram.
Initially, Kalyan Ram and Surender Reddy wanted the movie to release on May 7th, same day their ‘Atanokkade’ released 10 years ago. Since then the movie got postponed.
While Kalyan Ram blames Surender Reddy for over budget, Surender Reddy puts blame on Kalyan Ram for postponing the movie constantly. After the intervention of mutual friends they have now patched up but some discordant notes are still visible.
Kalyan Ram’s biggest success in his career is ‘Atanokkade’ until ‘Paatas’ happened. It was with ‘Atanokkade’ Surender Reddy debuted as director.
Surender Reddy landed in top league of directors with Allu Arjun movie ‘Racegurram’. Kalyan Ram planned ‘Kick 2’ to gain some good profits by making with reasonable budget.
Insiders say the movie has come out so well with strong comedy and Rakul’s glamour. Hence this excess budget and fight between Kalyan Ram and Surender Reddy will not be a hindrance to the success of ‘Kick 2’. Hope it ends on a happy note.
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