Anantha: Telugu actor Prashanth Karthi pledges to donate the film’s collections to Odisha train accident victims

Prashanth Karthi, who made a mark in Ram Gopal Varma’s Konda, is set to be seen in another film titled Anantha, a sci-fi thriller which releases on June 9. A civil contractor by profession, acting has been his passion for quite a lot of time, which eventually paved a way for his entry into cinema. He also played a cop in Ram Charan’s Dhruva and Nithiin’s Check but maintains that RGV's Konda was his game-changing film.

However, Prashanth has now also shown that he’s an actor with a big heart and has pledged to donate his upcoming film Anantha’s collections to the victims of the recent train mishap at Balasore, Odisha that resulted in many deaths. “We are planning to release the film in nearly 70 theatres. But for the theatre expenses, we plan to give away all the collections to the relief fund to help the Odisha train accident victims and their family on behalf of the Telugu film industry.”

It’s certainly an appreciable gesture that the brains behind a small Telugu film have come forward for a big cause. While talking about Anantha, Prashanth says he has has known the film’s director Madhu for a long time now and approached him with the story, after which the production commenced. He has always had a liking science fiction thriller and was impressed by the concept, storyline and the backdrop of Anantha.

The actor maintains that not many in the industry have explored such a premise in Telugu cinema. Anantha’s story will have him travelling across places while a group of professors research his activities and call him crazy. Prashanth mentions he has learnt many technicalities of filmmaking from Ram Gopal Varma during Konda. “It made my work a lot easy actually. When you work with him and be around him, we get to learn quite a lot of things,” he added.