The smart innings heroine Anjali is playing today in Tollywood has to be seen as a blessing from Kona Venkat. At a time when Anjali hasn’t got any lift in Telugu cinemas and was struck to performance oriented Tamil movies, it was Kona Venkat who is known to have suggested Anjali to Dil Raju for the key character in ‘Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu.’
Even later on, Anjali’s career passed through ups and downs till the time she got a break again with ‘Geethanjali’ in direction of Raj Kiran with script provided by Kona again. From then on, Kona has been the backbone for every step Anjali took in industry including her selection to Balakrishna’s prestigious 99th film ‘Dictator.’
Taking all these into consideration, we hear that Anjali accepted a request from Kona Venkat to take up a guest role in ‘Shankarabharanam.’ Actually, this film has Nikhil and Nanditha in main leads but Anjali comes at a crucial juncture of film playing the dacoit role. When Kona thought of only Anjali for this character, she has no reason to say NO.