I Love You is an exploration of romance in Chandru and Upendra style

When director

R Chandru

reunited with Upendra four years after their last,

Brahma

, he was determined that he would make it a combination of the actor-director’s sensibilities and his style. And when he released the first look of the Kannada-Telugu bilingual, I Love You- Nanne Preethse — it took many by surprise, as it featured a near naked Upendra on a bed, covered only with a white bedsheet and biting down on a rose stem. The film, says Chandru, is an emotional tale of love, lust and longing, which he wrote after he saw an interview by the team of Arjun Reddy. “They once said that they were inspired by Upendra’s films and I wondered why not use that same thought to write my next. In the film, Upendra plays Santosh, who believes that love is more about lust than anything else. But is that really what it is about? We have explored that using Upendra’s philosophical view on things,” explains Chandru.