Malayalam star, Nivin Pauly���s lungi look in Premam became a rage in Kerala, but the makers of the film���s Telugu remake announced ���Naga Chaitanya won���t sport the lungi,��� as it wouldn���t click with mana sensibilities. But it has emerged that Chai will don the lungi, albeit with a twist.
���Yes.
Naga Chaitanya will be seen sporting a lungi for the first time onscreen.
In the Malayalam version, Nivin Pauly tucking up his lungi with his legs was an essential quirk of the characterisation. But in the Telugu remake the lungi won���t be central to the protagonist���s character sketch. It will come at a juncture which will be totally unexpected. It will be a surprise element in a scenario that will be very casual and light hearted,��� informs a source from the film���s unit. The shooting of the particular scene is yet to take place, and director
Chandoo Mondeti is sparing no effort to ensure it will suit the local sensibilities. ���In the Malayalam film, Nivin and his friends walk in to the college in a lungi and that made absolute sense because of their cultural predisposition. But then, for our audiences, it would be a total mismatch and so, he felt it wouldn���t be right to replicate it the way we see it there,��� the source reveals.
Well this will be the first time Naga Chaitanya will be seen sporting a lungi onscreen, although he made an appearance in a traditional panche kattu when promoting his dad Nagarjuna���s recent release, Soggade Chinni Nayana.