Director Merlapaka Gandhi made banging debut with Venkatadri Express which provided huge profits to its makers. The director’s second film Express Raja starring Sharwanand released today. The talk in Film Nagar circles is that, Gandhi actually prepared the story for Sushanth.
As per this buzz, after the success of Venkatadri Express, Gandhi committed to do a project with hero Sushanth. Gandhi was paid Rs 25 lakhs as advance, out of total remuneration of Rs 75 lakhs. He worked on a script for seven months and narrated the story to Nagarjuna and other Akkineni family members. They refused the script, since they had some issues with it.
Then, Merlapaka Gandhi approached Sharwanand with same story without even informing Akkineni camp. Sharwa was very much impressed with it. The young hero who already had committed to do another film with UV Creations Banner after the decent hit of Run Raja Run, had introduced Gandhi to the producers who were also pleased with the script.
According to the same buzz, when Nagarjuna got to know about this, he demanded a compensation of Rs 1 crore for leaving the production house and also for breaking their contract of making film under Annapurna Studios Banner. Sharwa who had mediated the deal had accepted to pay the amount from his remuneration. So, he did Express Raja for almost zero remuneration.
However, this is just a speculation in Film Nagar, because neither Akkineni camp, nor UV Creations had made any announcement on this!
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