Ram Madhvani To Direct Ramayana, Phantom Films Pulls Down Its Shutters?

Neerja director and SpotboyE Salaam winner (Best Director, Critics) got a big shot in the arm. A pumped up Ram Madhvani will hold the reins of the Rs 500-crore Ramayana

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Ram Madhvani To Direct Ramayana, Phantom Films Pulls Down Its Shutters?

This morning, you and I woke up to read that Allu Aravind, Namit Malhotra and Madhu Mantena have joined hands to bring the epic Ramayana on the big screen. The liveaction feature will be a Hindi, Telugu and Tamil trilingual, being hyped as India's most ambitious project yet with an estimated budget of Rs 500-crore. It will be shot in 3D and released as a three-part series.

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The story just got BIGGER. The news that Mantena has collaborated with Allu and Namit  spells it out loud and clear that Phantom Films of Madhu Mantena, Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl (controversial) and Vikramaditya Motwane has closed shop.

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Now let us tell you, how. First and foremost, let's take you back to the story which was broken by us that Madhu Mantena has gone solo, soon after Vikas Bahl was accused of sexually harrassing a colleague in his office and reportedly booted out. We have been proved correct as Madhu is collaborating on this with two people who were not a part of his Phantom Films.

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Secondly, let's tell you that this project- Ramayana- was originally supposed to be done by Phantom- and one of the three, Anurag/Vikas/Vikramaditya was supposed to captain the ship.

So, Phantom ki dukaan bandh? Lagta toh aisa hi hai.

So now, the million dollar question is: Who will direct Ramayana? Neerja director Ram Madhvani. Yes, you heard it right, Ram Madhvani. There are whispers in the industry that Madhvani had been working on Ramayana with Phantom since the past one-and-half year.

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A source says, "Madhu and Allu are very close friends since the days of Ghajini which had Allu as its main producer. Madhu also knows Namit since nearly 10 years. Madhu going back to Allu and Namit clearly indicates that Madhu has dissociated himself from the quartet."

Adds the source, "Madhvani is very excited about Ramayana. He has been doing a lot of research on it. He received laurels for his last film Neerja, and surely he doesn't want to go wrong."

That's that! 


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