'Vipra Narayana' between Bala & Nag

The 1954 classic of ‘Vipra Narayana’ done by ANR and Bhanumathi is back in news from last 24 hours. Producers Thandra Ramesh and Komara Venkatesh of Sree Balaji Real Media are planning to remake the project with Nagarjuna in both Telugu and Hindi. While the names of Vidya Balan and Deepika Padukone are speculated to play the character done by Bhanumathi, it is Nagarjuna who is known to have kept the decision on hold.

Succeeding with ‘Annamayya’ and ‘Sri Rama Dasu,’ the third flick in combo of Nag and Raghavendra Rao is ‘Shirdi Sai Baba’ presently in shooting stages is a devotional subject. If Nagarjuna shows green signal for ‘Vipra Narayana’ too, then there is a definite threat of audience judging it as a monotonous. So, a better idea would be replacement of Nag with Balakrishna. Director Raghavendra Rao can take a correct decision on this confusion...let us wait and see.