Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar has joined the star-studded cast of ‘Kannappa’. The film, featuring Vishnu Manchu, promises to be visually stunning.
Kannappa, starring Mukesh Kumar Singh and Vishnu Manchu, is growing its cast roster. Akshay Kumar is the latest actor to join the cast of the mythological fantasy drama about Lord Shiva’s titular follower.
The mythological film Kannappa marks Akshay Kumar’s much anticipated Tollywood debut.
Ramesh Bala, an industry watcher, announced on X that Akshay had been recruited. He posted, “Bollywood Superstar @akshaykumar has joined the cast of Prestigious Pan-India Biggie – Actor @iVishnuManchu’s Big Budget Movie #Kannappa.” After #Prabhas, @Mohanlal, @PDdancing, and @realsarathkumar, @akshaykumar is another impressive addition to the film’s cast. Stay tuned for more exciting updates (sic).
Kannappa’s star studded cast
The cast includes prominent stars from a variety of businesses. Aside from Vishnu and his father, actor Mohan Babu.
Film features Prabhas, Mohanlal, Shiva Rajkumar, Madhoo, Sarathkumar, Prabhu Deva, Brahmanandam, Mukesh Rishi, Kaushal Manda, and others.
Stephen Devassy and Mani Sharma will compose the film’s music, while Sheldon Chau will shoot the cinematography and Anthony will edit.
Kannappa is Vishnu’s dream project, and Mohan is producing it through AVA Entertainment and 24 Frames Factory.
He penned the screenplay for the film, which was based on a story created by Paruchuri Gopala Krishna, Eshwar Reddy, G Nageswara Reddy, and Thota Prasad.
The film was shot in Telugu and will be dubbed into other South Indian languages and Hindi.
Touted to be a film on Lord Shiva’s ardent devotee Bhakta Kannappa, this most-ambitious project of Manchu Vishnu has been in the scripting and pre-production stage since the past few years.
Kajal Aggarwal and Nupur Sanon were initially cast as the female leads, they both declined for various reasons, and Preity Mukhundhan was cast instead.