And a major part of it is seeing him as a successful director too! He had earlier directed and acted in a film and now, he is making his second attempt at a love story with Andamaina Manasulo.

An impressive line-up of singers that RP Patnaik had introduced or mentored turned up to wish him luck. It included Sunitha, Nihal, Lenina, Ravi Varma, Venu, Geeta Madhuri, Noel (Rap singer), Maalavika, Chinmay and Pranavi.

They all spoke of their experiences of working with him and said that it would be thrilling to watch RP Patnaik making films apart from composing music.