Actress Samantha who had a great 2019 with her performance in Thiagarajan Kumararaja's Super Deluxe getting her good reviews as well as many awards, is next set to have a release this week with the Telugu movie Jaanu, which is directed by Premkumar.

Jaanu is the Telugu remake of the 2018 romantic hit 96, which was directed by Premkumar with Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha, and this Telugu version has Sharwanand and Samantha playing their roles. Govind Vasantha who had composed music in Tamil has also worked in Jaanu.

During the promotions of Jaanu, Dil Raju, the producer of the movie revealed that they had wanted to name the movie as Jaanu, but Prabhas was also acting in a movie with Pooja Hegde which had been titled Jaan. As Dil Raju asked if he could use the title, Prabhas instantly accepted his request and gave the title, and now Jaanu is releasing on February 7.