Veteran Director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s movie on Jesus Christ starring Pawan Kalyan in an important role was launched in Jerusalem. The press meet of the event was witnessed live at Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Kochi through video conference.

Talking in the video conference, Director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao said that classic movies like ‘King of Kings’, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, ‘Passion of Christ’, etc were made on Jesus before but he along with writer Bharavi and producer Krishnam Raju discussed a lot to show the story of Jesus in a neater way.

The director went on to add that their new movie would show all episodes right from birth of Jesus till his crucifixion. Talking about the highlights of the movie, The most important being the cast with all the actors from the age group of 10-14 and these children will portray adult characters and hence make up to show them as adults will be a big highlight. Experienced and Hollywood make up artist Christien Tinsley, who has worked in Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of Christ’ and Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Paa’ will provide his services in this movie.

Producer Krishnam Raju said with pride that this movie will be one of the costliest movies in Indian cinema history. Their entire unit is working hard and a lot of effort has been put in the making of this movie.

Power Star Pawan Kalyan said he was thoroughly impressed with the script and his characterization in the movie. Asked about his character, Pawan replied that it will be told subsequently. According to the director, Pawan Kalyan will act in Malayalam and Telugu while his character will be replaced by a prominent Hindi actor in the Hindi and English versions.

Pawan Kalyan will shoot for thirty days for this movie after which he will act in ‘Khushiga’.

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