Om Namo Venkatesaya is a spiritual journey says, Director Raghavendra Rao

K. Raghavendra Rao has started his film journey in 1975 with “Babu”. He exhibits his master levels in any genre like melody drama, romantic comedy and devotional with ease.

Recently, he comes up with “Om Namo Venkatesaya” that releases on Feb 10.

Interview…

It’s a spiritual journey…

The film is a spiritual journey where the shooting has happened like meditation. The entire film unit has worked like a team without religion & caste barriers.

Variation...

There is a lot of variation between “Annamayya” & “Om Namo Venkatesaya”.Annamayya features the greatest sacrifice of his life to god but "Om Namo Venkatesaya" highlights, how god prefers himself for a dedicated devotee and his conversation with Hathiram Baba. There is information, that is unknown to people.

Youth visit Tirupati often…

Mostly, youth visit Tirupati often to pray for their personal and career issues. But, we won’t find them near temples more. I hope young audience will also like film.

Preserving the traditional values…

India is a cultural country with valuable traditions. To preserve them, it should be communicated to everyone and movie is an effective medium.

God himself prefers Hathiram Baba…

"Annamayya" & "Sri Ramadasu" showcases the life of a devotee. But here god himself chooses, Hathiram Baba and why he chooses and how it conveys a message to the women forms the story. There is more scope for the story where every scene is new.

Highlighted with interesting facts...

The history of the temple is highlighted with interesting facts on how Kalyuga Vaikunta happened & its.reasons and how Swamy Srihari has turned into Srinivasudu and later into Govindudu.

Dramatization effect…

Dramatization creates effect for any story. It is said, the climax of Anammayya is the best and we only dramatized that part. We added dramatic mood in this film too.

Content is important…

Content is important in the film where “Dangal” is an example. Audience should move with the story.

No one can replace devotional roles except Nag...

Nagarjuna said, there is no other great story except “Annamayya” but he accepted for this film after listening to the story. Except Nag, no one can replace the devotional roles.