Non Kannada Directors Face Debacle with Upendra

Off late almost all the non Kannada directors faced the debacle with a superstar like Upendra is a pathetic state of affairs. In the last one year director P Vasu, Sriram, Ramnarayan and Suresh Krishna are the directors not able to give a stupendous success with a super star Upendra in the lead.

The debacle No.1 is P Vasu who directed ‘Arakshaka’ for producer of ‘Aptha Rakshaka’ Krishna Prajwal. With the two super hits to his credits – Aptha Mithra and Aptha Rakshaka – P Vasu in the combination of Upendra as pinch hitter gave a miserable flop. At one stage Upendra speaking to media told that he alerted P Vasu on such a risk.

The second debacle came from Suresh Krissna who directed top stars in South India. He had two films in the pas tin Kannada starring Dr Vishnuvardhana – Kadamba and Jyeshta. For ‘Katari Veera Sura Sundarangi ’ ran for 50 days and returned the investment according to producer Munirathna Naidu but it is not hit film starring Upendra. It raked up more controversy. Suresh Krissna could not give a pinch hitter with Upendra, Ramya, Ambarish in quasi mythological film.

The third debacle comes from cameraman turned director from ‘God Father’ – Sriram. A remake of ‘Varalaru’ Tamil film ‘God Father’ with the big name of two times Oscar award winner AR Rahman doing the music for this triple role of Upendra failed to click in the box office but producer K Manju made profits by selling the film in advance to Narasimha Arts Naga Prasad.

Now the fourth and latest is Ramnarayan – director and producer of ‘Kalpana’ a remake of ‘Kanchana’ Tamil film, at the 25th day is failing to give a major boost to the producer. However the investment for 125th film of Ramnarayan ‘Kalpana’ there is no problem. It is not a big hit. With Upendra, Shruthi, Umasri, Saikumar starred in this ghost effect cinema.

Upendra with one hit prior to four ‘Super’ was directed by himself. Whenever others try to direct him – most of the films have bombed.

Now all eyes are on Srini who is directing Upendra in ‘Topiwala’ – this has the screenplay and dialogues from Upendra. RS Productions Kanakapura Srinivas and KP Srikanth are producers of this film.