Prasanth Varma announces Telugu cinema’s first superhero film Hanu-Man

Filmmaker Prasanth Varma on Saturday took to Twitter to announce his next project, which will be Telugu cinema’s first original superhero film. He revealed that the film will be titled Hanu-Man.

Prasanth rose to fame with his National award-winning Telugu film Awe! He recently made Telugu cinema’s first zombie film, Zombie Reddy. 

“This time I’m coming with my favourite genre! Fasten your seat belts to dive into a new cinematic universe! “HANU-MAN” The First Original Superhero Film in Telugu (sic).” 

This time I’m coming with my favourite Genre!! 😊

Fasten your seat belts to dive into a new cinematic universe! 💥

“HANU-MAN”✨

The First Original Superhero Film in Telugu🦸🏻https://t.co/CH4EQA7oDT#HanuManTheFilm #HanuMan#PV4

— Zombie Varma (@PrasanthVarma) May 29, 2021

Prasanth also shared a video introducing the project. He still hasn’t confirmed whether or not the film will be an animated or live-action feature. 

The cast and crew will be finalized and announced soon. 

Meanwhile, Prasanth recently confirmed in a media interaction that he is working on the Awe! sequel. He said, "Yes, it is officially in the works. I’m ready with the script. We intend to take the Awe! franchise forward."

Elaborating on the project, he said, “Awe! 2 is going to be completely different. The screenplay and storyline will be heavy and intriguing. Unlike part one, which had multiple stories running parallelly, this film will have just one story. But rest assured, this film will be a crazy experiment; something that has never been explored in Tollywood [the Telugu film industry] before."

Actor Nani had produced Awe!, a multi-genre film featuring an ensemble cast of Kajal Aggarwal, Nithya Menen, Regina Cassandra and Avasarla Srinivas. 

Two years ago, Prasanth directed the Tamannaah Bhatia film That Is Mahalakshmi, the Telugu remake of Vikas Bahl’s Queen (2014). Prashant had to join the project midway after filmmaker Neelakanta, who was originally signed to direct, opted out following some differences with the makers.