Arun Vijay starrer hit film Thandam is all set to be remade in Telugu. Reports are that Ram Pothineni and Nivetha Pethuraj will be playing the lead roles in it. Kishore Tirumala has been roped in direct this remake, with Sravanthi Ravi Kishore producing it.

Thadam is an action crime thriller film that was written and directed by Magizh Thirumeni and produced by Inder Kumar under the banner Redhan – The Cinema People. The film had Arun Vijay, Tanya Hope, and Vidya Pradeep playing the main leads. The music was composed by Arun Raj, with cinematography by Gopinath and editing by NB Srikanth.

While the groundwork for the remake of Thadam is in progress, Ram Pothineni is busy with iSmart Shankar. In the film directed by Puri Jagannath, Ram plays the title role. The heroine, Nabha Natesh, will be seen as a civil engineer, along with Nidhi Agarwal, who will be playing the role of a doctor. iSmart Shankar has Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh, Tanikella Bharani, Pavithra Lokesh and others in supporting roles. Mani Sharma is composing music for this flick with Raj Thota on cinematography, and Junaid Siddiqui in charge of the editing. Shaik Jonny is the art director of iSmart Shankar with stunts choreographed by Real Satheesh. 

Nivetha Pethuraj, on the other hand, has the Allu Arjun starrer on her plate on right now. The Allu Arjun-Trivikram Srinivas project went on the floors a couple of months ago and the team had completed the first schedule successfully. The second schedule is currently on. The film is being produced jointly by Allu Aravind and S Radha Krishna under the banners Geetha Arts and Haarika & Hassine Creations respectively. The technical crew of this film includes S Thaman for music, PS Vinod for cinematography and Naveen Nooli for editing.

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