Thandel, the latest film of Naga Chaitanya is scheduled for release worldwide on 7th February. The film’s promotional activities have also begun with the team conducting an event yesterday in Chennai for the Tamil version. Thandel is a big budgeted flick based on a real life story of fishermen who got trapped in Pakistan after crossing into their borders unknowingly.
The film was initially planned to showcase these incidents and also did big research on their lives after their rescue operations happened. The team met those people and adapted the film. There was also a plan for, dealing with these Pakistan episodes and the first glimpse was showcased these. But this plan was later dropped due to the risk of big budget for this genre.
The team then prepared a full length love story between the lead pair Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi. Director Chandoo Mondeti too explained the same in an interview recently. He told that the film was not a patriotic one and deals with love story and emotional bond of the lead pair minimising these Pakistan episodes. He said that these episodes will only be about 20 minutes in the film and the rest is entirely about the love story.
This is surely a good decision to create an initial good buzz. And it is also learned that this 20-minute episode will not be a continuous one but crisscrosses throughout the film. The screenplay is believed to host these Pakistan episodes in the beginning and then move forward with the flashback episodes involving the love story.
The love element of the lead pair will surely work as the audiences have already connected with the songs released till now. Still, the only challenge that stands is how these Pakistan episodes are dealt with in the film. They shouldn’t get overboarded disturbing the momentum of the film. This was also visible from the Trailer which gave raise to the doubts. Chandoo Mondeti too came forward immediately to clear off these speculations.
If the team is successful in pulling off these Pakistan episodes well then the film will definitely become a blockbuster and the team also looks confident about the result. The team participated in the Chennai event yesterday as said with Actor Karthi, Venkat Prabhu, Karthik Subbaraj as Chief Guests. Today, an event is planned in Mumbai with Aamir Khan as the Chief Guest. Later, a big event is being planned in Hyderabad with Allu Arjun as the Chief Guest.