It has now been made official that Naga Chaitanya would team up with renowned Kollywood filmmaker Venkat Prabhu for his 22nd project after much speculation. The movie, which is now known as #NC22, has generated a great deal of attention because it would both represent actor Naga Chaitanya’s breakthrough into Tamil cinema as well as director Venkat Prabhu’s debut in Telugu cinema. An formal Pooja Ceremony was done today to begin filming the movie. Along with Naga Chaitanya, Kriti Shetty, Yuvan Raja, and other celebrities, the event was attended by Sivakarthikeyan, Rana Daggubati, and others.
Actress Krithi Shetty will be playing the female lead, while renowned actor Arun Vijay is set to play the powerful villain against Naga Chaitanya. The team took to social media to make it official that Ilayaraja and Yuvan Shankar Raja are jointly scoring music for the film. The father-son duo had earlier collaborated for composing Seenu Ramasamy’s Maamanithan, which is slated to hit screens this Friday. The Tamil-Telugu bilingual film is produced by Srinivasaa Chitturi under his Srinivasaa Silver Screen production banner. On the work front, Naga Chaitanya is awaiting the release of Thank You. He is currently busy with the shoot of his debut series Dootha.