Hyderabad: Director VA Shrikumar Menon will direct Rs 1000-crore budget motion movie 'Mahabharata’. UAE based billionaire businessman and philanthropist Dr BR Shetty, will invest Rs 1000-crore in the project. The movie divided in two parts is scheduled to go on floor by September 2018 and will be released in early 2020, a statement here today said.
The statement further said that the second part of the film will be released within 90 days of the first part. The film will be dubbed in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil & Telugu and leading foreign languages. The film will be a coming together of the crème de la crème of Indian and global cinema, in terms of its cast and crew. The technical crew would include some of the great names in the world cinema including some academy winners.
The cast will have the best of talents from Indian cinema as well as some big names from Hollywood. This film will have an identity across continents, with their representatives donning the myriad characters in Mahabharata! A global team led by an Internationally renowned casting director will handpick the cast.