Cinematographer turned Director Santosh Sivan has now got into the new avatar of Actor with Malayalam flick ‘Raja Ravi Varma’ getting ready for a release in Telugu with same title. Santosh portrayed the title role of Raja Ravi Varma in the movie directed by Lenin Rajendran. Hot ladies Karthika and Nithya Menon acted in lead roles besides Santosh Sivan in this art film.
Sobha Rani of ‘David Bailla’ fame brought the Telugu rights is quite confident on movie to fare very well in Andhra Pradesh due to glamour quotient of above two heroines. ‘After getting applauses screening on many international and national film festivals, the life of master painter will entertain Telugu public. Madhu Ambat’s cinematography is the highlight of film. There are enough commercial elements although subject deals with painter’s life journey,’ she said. The first bunch of spicy pics released into market is getting good response.