Actor Ravi Teja and the entire cast and crew of Tiger Nageswara Rao began filming for the final schedule of the film on Saturday, in Vizag. The makers of the film took to Twitter with a video to announce the same.
Directed by Vamsee, Tiger Nageswara Rao is backed by Abhishek Agarwal. It is a biopic on the notorious thief and is a period-action drama set in the 70s, in a village named Stuartpuram. The film also stars Anupam Kher, Renu Desai, Nupur Sanon, and Gayathri Bharadwaj among others.
The film will be made in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam. While Ravi Teja plays the titular character, Renu plays Hemalatha Lavanam, based on the real-life character who was a social worker and fought against untouchability.
While the dialogues are written by Srikanth Vissa, the music is composed by GV Prakash Kumar. Tiger Nageswara Rao is shot by cinematographer R Madhie.