Kireeti Reddy and Sreeleela’s pan-India film zeroes in on its title

In March this year, politico-entrepreneur Janardhan Reddy announced the launch of his son, Kireeti Reddy in cinema, amid much fanfare. To be made in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam, the then untitled film was revealed to be a big-budget project directed by Radhakrishna Reddy. The shooting of the film, which pairs Kireeti with Sreeleela, has been going on for a while. And now, on the occasion of the young hero’s birthday, the team is ready to announce the title too. Kireeti’s debut has been called Junior.

Produced by Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram as their 15thventure, the film is slated to be an action-packed family entertainer, with a love story at its crux. Tollywood composer Devi Sri Prasad is on board for the music, while Baahubali and RRR fame K Senthil Kumar serves as cinematographer, with Peter Hein handling the action sequences. The film also stars Crazy Star Ravichandran in a pivotal role, while it serves as a comeback vehicle in south cinema for Genelia Deshmukh. Ravichandran will play Kireeti’s father in the film.

At the muhurtha of Junior, the team had released a teaser video featuring Kireeti, which showed off some of the skill sets that the young actor is bringing to the big screen. At the time, Kireeti had said that he could not have asked for a better launchpad and that it is the fulfilment of a childhood dream to be seen on the big screen.

Kireeti joins the ever-growing list of Karnataka politicians’ kids in cinema. Among the newer crop, there’s Nikhil Gowda, the son of former CM HD Kumaraswamy, who is already four films old, Anup Revanna, the son of HM Revanna, who has done two and will next be seen in R Chandru’s Kabzaa, Zaid Khan, the son of Zameer Khan, who is set for his debut with Banaras, and Sachin, the son of N Cheluvarayaswamy, who’s been MIA since his first film, Happy Birthday.