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First Look: Nagarjuna's socio-fantasy film Damarukam

May 29, 2012 10:07 IST
Nagarjuna in DamarukamOf late, Nagarjuna has been acting in different genres of films. In the last year the superstar was seen in Gaganam (a song-less thriller) and Rajanna (where he made an entry into the film 40 minutes after the film began).

Now he playing the Shirdi Sai Baba in a film directed by K Raghavendra Rao, and an asura in Damarukam which is written and directed by Sreenivasa Reddy.

Anushka stars with Nag in Damarukam, a socio fantasy produced by Dr Venkat of RR MovieMakers and presented by K Atchi Reddy.

In Damarukam Nagarjuna is an asura who gets up after a deep sleep of 1000
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years and wants to fight the gods. It would be interesting to see the battle between the gods and the asuras given the advances in technology now.

The film has a huge star cast comprising Ganesh Venkatraman,  Prakash Raj, comedians Brahmanandam, M S Narayana,  Raghu Babu, Krishna Bhagawan besides Brahmaji, Jiva and others.

A big-budget film, Damarukam is technically sophisticated with liberal use of computer graphics. Nagarjuna has said it is a first-of-its-kind movie in his career.

Devisriprasad scores the music, Chota K Naidu is the director of photography, Ashok is the art director and Gautham Raju, the editor of the film.

Damarukam is scheduled to release some time in July.