Anil Ravipudi directing NBK is just Fake

Nandamuri Balakrishna surprised his fans by signing interesting films in the recent months. After Krish, the actor signed a film for Puri Jagannadh and this is how Paisa Vasool happened. He then locked Tamil director KS Ravikumar for a mass entertainer and the film has been titled Jai Simha. Now there are talks that the veteran actor gave his nod for young director Anil Ravipudi who scored three back to back commercial hits in his career. There are wide speculations that NBK gave his nod for Anil Ravipudi and all the leading portals, news channels carried the news.

A close source to the young director confirmed that the news is completely fake. Anil and Balakrishna have been in talks for an interesting project from sometime but it is not happening now. Anil is yet to pen the script for his favorite actor and the project may happen in 2019 but not now. Anil is currently busy with next film F2 which is a multi-starrer. Victory Venkatesh has been finalized for one of the lead roles and the other lead actor is yet to be finalized. This project will be bankrolled by Dil Raju and this will complete the three film contract of Anil Ravipudi with Raju.