Polladhavan's Hindi remake in 'Raanjhanaa' land

Ganesh Venkatraman will make his Hindi debut in the remake of Vetri Maaran's "Polladhavan". The film has been titled as "Guns Of Benaras".

 

Ganesh will play the antagonist's role in the film played by Daniel Balaji in the original while Karan Nath will play Dhanush's role. The entire script revolves around the clash between these two characters.

 

Ganesh says, "When director Shekhar Suri narrated my character, I absolutely loved it. I haven't played a rugged gangster like this before. The entire film is set in Benaras. My character is a cocaine addict with a bad attitude, I am sporting a rugged beard and a tattoo of an aghori baba on my arms. Though I can speak fluent hindi, I went to Benaras 20 days in advance to pick up the UP lingo and also to study the body language of the local mafia." 

 

Talking about the cast and crew, he says, "Nathalia Kaur is playing the female lead while Vinod Khanna, Abhimanyu Singh and Shilpa Shirodkar are playing important roles. The technical team is top notch. The highlight of the film will be the action sequences, choreographed by Shyam Kaushal who won the Filmfare Award for Gangs Of Wasseypur & has also done Slumdog Millionaire."

 

Music will be composed by Sohail Sen who had earlier composed for Salman Khan's Ek Tha Tiger. The team is in talks with GV Prakash to do the background score.