Shekar calling Sekhar

Bollywood is being deluged, and how! Blame it on mana film industry. But Tollywood is now the Hindi film industry���������s major source of inspiration. One after the other, our actors, directors and films are being wooed by their Mumbai counterparts. The latest to join the list is director Sekhar Kammula.
The director, who was part of the NFDC delegation to Cannes, has managed to take his big step in B-Town.The director���������s film ���������Happy Days��������� will be remade in Hindi by producer/director Shekhar Kapoor. ���������Sekhar has been hobnobbing with folks from Bollywood at Cannes. The delegation of directors ��������� Kammula, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Anusha Rizvi, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar and Haobam Paban Kumar ��������� bonded big time there. Sekhar met his namesake and they had a long conversation. Impressed with Kammula���������s vision, Kapoor offered to produce the remake of ���������Happy Days��������� He felt the story will connect to a pan Indian audience,��������� informs a source.
The filmmaker, who is the first from the Telugu Film Industry to be at Cannes, will return today from the French Riviera. The casting of the film and other details will be worked out once the director is back from Cannes.