Telugu movie director's multi-lingual movie on 'Vande Mataram'

CHENNAI: At a time when controversy rages over the singing of the national song వందే మాతరం (Vande Mataram), a Telugu film director, కే. కల్యాణ చక్రవర్తి (K Kalyana Chakravrthy), on Friday conducted a pooja for a film of the same title.

The film is to be shot in 10 Indian languages and would take about nine months for completion, Chakravrthy said.

Bankimchandra Chatterjee wrote this song on November 7 1875. "The song is 130-years old and about 99 different versions have been recorded over 100 years," he said.

The "first tune version" was composed by Rabindranath Tagore in 1906, he said adding the song had led to a movement for freedom being created in India.

Well-known carnatic singer Dr M Balamurlikrishna is the 100th composer and singer of this song.

Referring to Balamurlikrishna, the director said the singer also plays an important role in the movie acting as an "ashrama guruji".

"I am trying to rope in superstar Rajnikant and matinee idol Chiranjeevi to play the roles of the sishyas of the Ashrama guruji," Chakravrty said.

"The movie's idea is to trace the history of Vande Mataram. It is important that big stars come forward to act in such movies. Only then people will be drawn to see such movies," he said.

The recording of the song, which is now being composed, would be completed by September 3, he said.

"We want to complete the movie in 180 call sheets," he said.

Courtesy: TOI