{"id":298452,"date":"2017-10-13T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/?p=298452"},"modified":"2017-10-14T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:22:03","slug":"rangitaranga-convinced-arya-to-be-part-of-rajaratham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/rangitaranga-convinced-arya-to-be-part-of-rajaratham\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rangitaranga&#8217; Convinced Arya To Be Part Of &#8216;Rajaratham&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamil superstar Arya is making his debut in Kannada with Anup Bhandari\u2019s Rajaratham and what prompted him to instantly agree over a 5min telephonic narrative is that he became a fan of Rangitaranga when he watched it in a theatre when it released in Chennai. He immediately got in touch with Sudhakar Bhandary who is the father of Anup &amp; congratulated him. When Anup started working on Rajaratham\u2019s script, he approached Arya who was participating in a Cycle Rally happening at London then. Few might already know that Arya is a cycling fanatic so he had to complete 1400kms in mere 4.5 days with limited rest. So whenever he used to take 10-15mins break is when Arya got a brief about his role in Rajaratham. Without any second thoughts Arya said \u201cOk brother, I\u2019m interested in this\u201d and shared his dates with the team. Many don\u2019t know that Arya hails from Kanjangad \/ Trikaripur (according to wiki) town, Kasaragod district which is close to Mangalore &amp; was part of yesteryears Karnataka. Later he moved to Chennai &amp; rest is history with all the blockbusters that he was part of &#8211; Bala\u2019s Naan Kaduvul, AL Vijay\u2019s Madrasapattinam, Atlee\u2019s Raja Rani and many more. He\u2019 currently busy with Sangamithra a big budget film directed by C Sundar. Rajaratham is a rom-com musical starring Nirup Bhandari, Avantika Shetty, P Ravishankar directed &amp; written by Rangitaranga director Anup Bhandari, produced by Jollyhits team Anju Vallabhaneni, Vishu Dakappagari, Sathish Sastry &amp; Ajay Reddy Gollapalli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Award List for Rangitaranga<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Winner of 8 IIFA awards including best film. Anup Bhandari won 3 awards out of it \u2013 Best Director, Best Music Director and Best Lyricist<br \/>\n\u2022 Winner of 4 FilmFare awards including best film and best director<br \/>\n\u2022 Nominated in 7 out of 9 categories in SIIMA awards including Nirup Bhandari as best debutant actor. Won 4 Awards ,of which Anup Bhandari won 2 Awards, Best Debutant Director &amp; Best Lyrics.<br \/>\n\u2022 One of the 305 films short listed for Oscar nominations 2016<br \/>\n\u2022 Anup Bhandari won the Karnataka State award for best direction in a debut feature film<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298454\" src=\"http:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Arya-Raja-Ratham-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"1477\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298455\" src=\"http:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Arya-Raja-Ratham-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"1477\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil superstar Arya is making his debut in Kannada with Anup Bhandari\u2019s Rajaratham and what prompted him to instantly agree over a 5min telephonic narrative is that he became a fan of Rangitaranga when he watched it in a theatre when it released in Chennai. He immediately got in touch with Sudhakar Bhandary who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"read":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298452"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/industryhit.com\/t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=298452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}