Ram Charan & Sanjay Leela Bhansali Project: ON

Post the stupendous success of legendary director SS Rajamouli’s RRR, Mega star Ram Charan reached a different league altogether. Global recognition, international interviews, and Oscar-stage presence have changed the scale completely. But interestingly, his film choices after that haven’t fully matched that rise. He went ahead with Game Changer with S. Shankar, and then locked Peddi with Buchi Babu Sana. Both are big films in their own space, but not exactly the kind of pan-global, genre-defining subjects many expected after RRR. Now, this new development changes things a bit.

Reports suggest that Ram Charan is set to star in a major production backed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The film is being described as a historical adventure set in a jungle backdrop, something visually rich and scale-heavy, very much in Bhansali’s zone, but with a slightly different flavour. The script apparently started as an idea connected to Rowdy Rathore 2, developed by Baahubali and RRR writer V Vijayendra Prasad. That version didn’t take off. Later, writer Durgesh Singh reworked it completely into a period jungle adventure, aligning it more with Charan’s image and pan-India appeal.

The project is expected to be directed by a prominent Bollywood name and planned as a multi-language release with Hindi as the main version, and probably Telugu too. This isn’t the first time Bhansali and Charan have explored something together. Earlier, there were discussions about a film on Maharaja Suheldev, which didn’t materialise. If this one works out now, surely it is going to be Ram Charan’s proper directional stepping, while he has Sukumar’s film as well in the offing after Peddi releases.