Harish Shankar is a commercial director. But, that's not it he can make a proper commercial film with entertainment matching hero's attitude and body language. Such ability is a rarity. When Harish made Mirapakaya and Gabbar Singh, many thought that he will be the new face for Telugu Commercial Cinema. Later on with failur of Ramayya Vastavayya he need to do films with mid range heroes. Even in DJ with Allu Arjun, though the film didn't became a blockbuster, but it has Harish's mark commercial entertainment all-over.
Now after more than a decade Harish is directing his favourite hero Pawan Kalyan for Ustaad Bhagath Singh. The long delayed film's shoot has kick started recently and completed its first schedule also. Sree Leela is the heroine for Pawan Kalyan in this film.
Harish seems to compensate his gap between films by readying scripts for big stars back to back. He has a very good equation with Ravi Teja and it is being heard that a film in this combination has almost finalised. He will immediately moves to Ravi Teja film once he is done with Ustaad Bhagath Singh.
Another interesting update is, it is being strongly heard that Harish Shankar has been preparing script for Natasimha Nandamuri Balakrishna. And we wanted to do it under Mythri Movie Makers banner. Harish is confident that his ongoing script will surely impress NBK and the film will happen soon. He also wanted to release his two films next year.