Nowadays, most of the youth, especially adolescents, are in confusion to differentiate between love and friendship. Perhaps, to help such people, Madhusudhan has embarked to make ‘Thillana’, a movie loaded with sentiment and romance.
According to Madhusudhan, the story of ‘Thillaana’ revolves around two heroes and two heroines who find it tough to realize whether they are in love or whether it is just friendship.
"I want to create awareness among the adolescents about difference between friendship and love,” says Madhusudhan.
Its muhurat function was held on June 30 at Sri Kanteerava Studios and shooting was held at Malleswaram and Mahalakshmi Layout for three days. Its shooting is planned for 15 days in and around Bangalore and 20 days in Chikmagalur.
Madhusudhan makes his debut as a director with this movie. Prior to this, he has worked as an associate to directors B Ramamurthy, Annayya and Chindodi Bangaresh. “My father K Eswaraswamy has been working as an assistant director (technical) under directors KV Raju and KV Jayaram for the last 20 years. Now, my father is helping me to handle the megaphone for this movie. I will never forget the help, guidance and cooperation of Harishkumar Rao who is responsible for taking this movie on to the sets,” says Madhusudhan.
Gajendra, who has been working as an anchor for a TV channel, makes his debut as the hero with this movie. Raviteja, one among the four heroes in the movie ‘Rajadhani’, plays the role of the second hero.
Sushma, who played Vinod Prabhakar’s sister role in the movie ‘Hori’ and Shruthi, who acted in the movie ‘Neenyaare?’, are the heroines. Ramesh Bhat, Ananth Nag, Aadilokesh, Padmini Prakash, Viswa, Sandeep are the other artistes. Sunny Madhavan from Alleppey makes debut as music director with this film.
“Efforts are on to rope in Rangayana Raghu to make a guest appearance in this film,” adds Madhusudhan.