PremiumDhruva Sarja’s Martin sets up box office clash with Yuva?
The much-delayed AP Arjun directorial is eyeing a year-end release
Last Updated: 08.26 AM, Sep 06, 2023
Dhruva Sarja’s in-production Martin, directed by AP Arjun, was meant to be in theatres a year ago. Delays in production meant that it could not meet some of the earlier announced release dates, so the team finally had a teaser release event to tell fans that no more announcements would be made until the film was complete. In the time since, OTTplay has checked in with director Arjun a few times on the status of the film, at which time he had completed the talkie portions and was waiting in the wings for Dhruva to wind up the pending songs .
The actor had moved on to start work on his next, KD- The Devil with director Prem, for which he had lost a lot of the bulky mass he had put on for Martin. Dhruva sports a Hulk-like massive muscular frame for Martin, much of which he had shed for KD. Once he went on schedule break of the Prem film, the actor began intense workouts again to regain some of that muscular mass for Martin’s song shoot. As of this week, Dhruva has begun shooting the song sequences, one of which features Giorgia Andriani, in Hyderabad.
Once news of the song shoot broke, rumours cropped up that the makers were toying with release dates and the most likely is apparently December 22. This would, however, mean that if they go ahead with this plan, Martin will be in direct competition with Yuva Rajkumar’s debut vehicle Yuva, which was announced as a December 22 release long ago. At the moment, the Christmas weekend is also being heard as a tentative date for Prabhas’ Salaar, which has been pushed ahead from September 28. Considering that Martin will be a 5-language pan-Indian release, Dhruva will also set up a clash with Shah Rukh Khan’s Dunki. A formal announcement of the release date is expected shortly.