RC17: Unwanted Two Part Strategy On Cards?

With the talk around “Peddi” evaporating as the film reaches its closure at the Box Office, the discussion about the ‘new age mega star’ next movie is already picking up. However, while Ram Charan is taking almost three months' rest, recently Sukumar has indirectly hyped the movie up saying that he won’t reveal anything about the movie, but whatever they are cooking, will be very surprising.

Rumours are popping up that Ram Charan and Sukumar’s next outing is going to be on the lines of Dhurandhar. This is not in terms of the story, but in terms of the way the makers of the Ranveer Singh starrer and their strategy in releasing the two parts of the film. They have carved the two parts at the same time, and released the first part in December and the second part next March. In just a 3 months gap, two parts of the same film have taken over the box office by storm and made around ₹3000 crores from all types of revenue models. Even Charan and Sukumar, along with Mythri Movie Makers, will be following the same strategy.

However, this seems to be an unwanted strategy for Ram Charan's film, and if going by the track record of Sukumar, if they start a 2-hour film they might end up with 4 hours of output. And if they start as a two-part film right at the beginning, imagine how many parts of movies they are going to craft in the first place. While this is just a theory formed by observing Sukumar’s previous body of work, he may disprove it too by making two parts in the stipulated time and budget, and releasing them in a two-month gap.