V Nagendra Prasad to play a conniving politician in his next Kannada film

Lyricist, director and actor V Nagendra Prasad is heading back to the big screen, this time as an antagonist in the film English Manja. The film, which stars Pramod and Thejaswini Sharma in lead roles, is directed by Arya Mahesh.

Nagendra’s last big screen outing was for the film Ramarajya, wherein he played an advocate. Quite clearly, he has been out of the scene for a long time. “Yes, it has been long,” admits Nagendra. “I have not been pursuing acting as much lately. I know the director well, and when he thought I could do justice to a role he had in mind, I decided to take this up. I play the role of a politician called Chalapathy in this film. He is the sort of character anyone would relate to as having known in today's society. There are no chest-thumping dialogues or action sequences that are usually associated with an on-screen villain. This guy is on a mission which he wants to complete at any cost, without harming his name in the society,” he explains. Meanwhile, Nagendra tells us he has been working on a script, which he plans to direct soon. Wait for more on that!