Ace director Koratala Siva after scoring hits like Mirchi with Prabhas, Srimanthudu and Bharat Ane Nenu with Mahesh Babu, Janatha Garage with NTR is now directing Megastar Chiranjeevi in his next tentatively titled Acharya.
Now inside talk is Acharya is facing trouble due to Power Star Pawan Kalyan. Buzz is Koratala Siva actually penned Acharya story keeping Power Star Pawan Kalyan in mind. He even planned to cast Pawan Kalyan in a dual role. But all that was way back during Agnyaathavaasi time.
But when everything was ready, Pawan entered politics quitting films. Pawan had to walk out of the project, due to his political entry. At that time, Pawan advised Koratala to make the film with his elder brother Chiranjeevi.
Koratala duly followed Pawan's advice and started Acharya with Chiranjeevi. He planned to cast Ram Charan in another role molding the character according to mega power star’s image. But Ram Charan is starring in RRR multi starrer with Rajamouli. It is not clear when the RRR shoot will get completed. Ram Charan is not in a position to do the role in Acharya unless until RRR shoot is completed.
Rumors started that Mahesh Babu will do that special role in Acharya. However, if Mahesh Babu is cast then the script should be changed accordingly. In the midst of all this Chiranjeevi is pressurizing Koratala to ready the film for a grand release before Dasara. Koratala is breaking his head on how to proceed ahead with Acharya.