Samara Shankham: Here’s the first song from Mammootty’s Yatra
As informed earlier by us, the first song from Mammootty’s Telugu movie Yatra has been released today. The song titled as ‘Samara Shankham’ is rendered by Kaala Bhairava and composed by K (Krisha Kumar). Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry has written its powerful lyrics.
Yatra, which is the biopic of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, has Mammootty playing YSR. The movie is written and directed by Mahi Raghav. It also stars Rao Ramesh, Anasuya, Posani Krishna Murali, Vinod Kumar and Sachin Khedekar in supporting roles.
YSR is one of the most popular and revered politicians that the state of Andhra Pradesh has ever seen. Yatra, according to the makers, is an event-based film which primarily focuses on the time during YSR’s famous three-month-long padayatra in 2003. The padayatra was a defining moment in his career which transformed him into a people’s leader. The newly released song captures the visuals of the famous padayatra.
Apart from Mammootty, Yatra also stars Rao Ramesh, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Posani Krishna Murali, Vinod Kumar and Sachin Khedekar. Popular Tamil star Karthi is also said to be playing a crucial role in the movie, but the makers have still not confirmed it. Sathyan Sooryan is the DOP and Sreekar Prasad is handling the edits. Vijay Chilla and Shashi Devi are jointly producing the movie under their banner of 70MM Entertainments.
