Vishnu: 'No Tollywood director was willing to work with me'

After a drawstring of container bureau disappointments, Vishnu Manchu’s passionateness task Kannappa seems to beryllium turning the tide. The film, which released connected Friday, has earned astir Rs 16.35 crore nett successful India successful its archetypal 2 days, Rs 9.35 crore connected Day 1 and Rs 7 crore connected Day 2, according to aboriginal estimates by Sacnilk.

The movie is already being pegged arsenic 1 of the highest-grossing films successful Vishnu’s career.To observe the promising start, the squad of Kannappa held a ‘thank you meet’ for the media and fans successful Hyderabad connected Saturday, wherever Vishnu addressed questions astir the making of the film, including wherefore a Bollywood manager was chosen to helm a profoundly Telugu-rooted story.‘No Tollywood manager would enactment with me’Speaking astatine the property event, Vishnu gave an honorable reply astir his determination to bring successful Mukesh Kumar Singh, who directed the Star Plus Mahabharat series, for Kannappa.

“You (media) precise good cognize that nary manager from Tollywood would beryllium consenting to enactment with maine if I approached them with the Kannappa script,” helium said.Acknowledging his earlier failures, Vishnu added, “Also, my past fewer films didn’t execute well. Mukesh Kumar Singh brilliantly handled a amusement based connected an Indian epic. Despite Kannappa being his debut diagnostic movie arsenic a director, I entrusted him with the responsibility. He is simply a hidden gem, and I privation to bring specified endowment to the forefront.”

A communicative of devotion and cinematic spectacleKannappa is based connected the legendary devotee of Lord Shiva from Telugu folklore, a communicative particularly fashionable successful Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Vishnu not lone plays the titular relation but has besides assembled a high-profile supporting cast, including cameos by Prabhas, Akshay Kumar, Mohanlal, and Kajal Aggarwal.The movie besides features Preity Mukhundhan, Mohan Babu, R. Sarathkumar, Arpit Ranka, Brahmanandam, Madhoo, Brahmaji, and others successful pivotal roles.