Actress Vidya Balan, who has already impressed her audience in Bollywood, is all set to make her Telugu debut with NTR Biopic. In the highly-anticipated film, the actress is playing the role of Basava Tarakam. On Thursday, the production house NBK films released a new poster showing Vidya Palan playing the harmonium. The Twitter handle captioned the picture, “Basavatharakkama with Tarakarama (NTR).”
Vidya Balan is clad in a traditional south Indian silk saree and jewellery. Actor Balakrishna, who is playing the role of his father NTR in the biopic, is sitting besides her and gazing at her.
Talking about Vidya Balan’s character Basava Tarakam, she was NTR’s first wife, who was also NTR’s maternal uncle’s daughter. The superstar married Basava when he was just 20. They became parents to eight sons and four daughters.
NTR biopic is slated to release in two parts: Kathanayankudu, which will have the rise of NTR as an actor and the other will be titled Mahanayankudu, which will portray NTR as a politician. The film is directed by Krish Jagarlamudi. It will have Rana Daggubati as the current Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who is NTR’s son-in-law.
Actress Rakul Preet is playing the role of Sridevi and Nithya Menen steps in to the shoes of Savitri. The first looks of the actresses were dropped on the social media. First part of NTR biopic will release on January 9 while the other on January 26. The trailer of the film will be dropped on December 21.