Prithviraj’s Karnan to be made in 4 languages in 3D format
When Prithviraj announced that he will be doing a epic movie with RS Vimal on the life of Karnan, expectations were sky high. RS Vimal made his debut with the romantic drama Ennu Ninte Moideen also starring Prithviraj Sukumaran. The movie was a very big blockbuster and the director announced his arrival in style.
The director is now busy with the preproduction of Karnan. RS Vimal has said that Karnan will be a truly international movie made with the best of standards available. Preproduction works for the movie are going on in Ramoji Rao Film city, Hyderabad. Around 200 technicians have been working there for the past six months.
Karnan will go on floors by March next year. At the initial stages, the movie was planned to be made on a budget of 25-30 crores. But the director said that, cost of preproduction works for the movie has already exceeded the budget of his previous movie, Ennu Ninte Moideen.
The movie will have an animation format before shooting. Works for that are happening in Hyderabad. RS Vimal has selected a group of technicians from Trivandrum and Hyderabad for the animation works.
Karnan will have a run time of 2 hours 45 minutes. The animation version will also have the same duration. It will be very useful for the artists, make up men, art director and cinematographer to get an idea about the shooting procedure. This will help in saving time and money during the shooting.
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Mythical locations like Hasthinapuri and Indrapuri have been recreated using animation. This will help the art team during shoot to build sets and other props used in many scenes.
Karnan will be made as a multilingual made in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. Tamil version of the script is written by famous writer Jeyamohan.
The movie will not be simply dubbed in other languages, but shoot will happen separately. The movie will also be released in English.
RS Vimal said there were many roadblocks before the team right before the shooting has started. The massive victory of Ennu Ninte Moideen has inspired him to go forward with his dream project, Karnan.
Many prominent stars from other industries will be part of the cast along with Prithviraj. Karnan will be made in 3D format.
Karnan will made on a massive budget of 300 crores. RS Vimal has said that they are not only aiming at the box office collections in Kerala, but for an international market. Shoot is planned to last over 8 long months.
20% of the shoot will happen outside the Film City. Many scenes will be shot in the banks of Ganga and other locations in North India.
Karnan is planned to release in 5000 theatres worldwide. Marketing works for the movie has already started by the team.
