Much awaited Shankar’s Manoharudu is all set to release this Diwali. The Rs 180-cr film is currently in its post-production phase and its producer Ravichandran has assured that the film will be 100 times better than Robot.
Manoharudu is going to be released in 25 foreign languages simultaneously and in over 1500 theatres across China alone.
Like in all Shankar films, the film’s hero Vikram will be seen in a one-of-its-kind role.
Vikram will sport three different looks and this time there won’t be any VFX.
Probably a first in south Indian cinema, Vikram will appear as werewolf, for which he needed to be 120 kilos, and he will have a lean look which needed him to be not more than 60 kilos and the third look is that of a hunched, deformed man.
“It took us more than 2 years and 8 months to finish this movie. And one of the most painful journeys was of Vikram’s. His physical transformations were a torture for him, we saw him crying, literally. Not just that, even his make-up was a Herculean task. Especially when he had to don the look of the were-wolf it would take him nearly 6-7 hours, and sometimes even 12 hours. The trickiest part of it were the acids that were poured over him to give him that look, and he would have to be frozen in the refrigerator for the make-up to solidify and not burn and eat into his skin. In spite of the precautions he still did get some burns,” says Ravichandran.
