Venkatesh and Suresh Production were involved in lot of hard work to compile the life history of Swami Vivekananda either into a Film or into a Tele-Serial. Well known director Neelakanta was roped to look after the ground work related to scripting. However, the project is shelved in middle stages and no where do we hear of ‘Swami Vivekananda’ these days in Telugu film circles.
Tutu Das, a director from Bengal has begun the shooting for his new film on Swami Vivekananda titled as ‘The Light Vivekananda.’ Major talkie part is completed and currently he is handling the episodes related to Vivekananda’s famous speech of 1893. For this, Town Hall in Kolkata is transformed into Art Institute of Chicago and the unit members are canning the scenes.
‘The Light Vivekananda’ will be actually shot in Bengali and Hindi, later to be dubbed in 18 other languages. ‘I am recapturing the life of Vivekananda, starting from the stages when he was a little boy called Bile till his last days,’ Das said to daily news paper. If this one gets released in Telugu, there is no way we can have Venky’s project go forward.