<p>"Mungaru Male" fame Ganesh has been roped in to play the lead in the yet-untitled Kannada remake of recent Telugu hit "Pataas". The film is expected to roll from June.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"While Ganesh will be playing the lead, Manju Swaraj will be direct the project. Both Ganesh and Manju make a great team after the success of 'Shravani Subramanya', and so, I brought them together," the film's producer S.V. Babu told IANS.<br /><br />Tentatively title "Gani", the remake will not be a frame-to-frame copy of the original.<br /><br />"There's no point in merely copying scenes from the original in the remake, which can be done by anybody. We would make slight changes to suit the ethnicity and give our film a local flavour," he said, and added that they plan to start shooting from June.<br /><br />While the rest of the cast is yet to be finalised, Babu says that talks are on with actor Manoj Bajpayee to play an important role in the movie.<br /><br />Released earlier this year, "Pataas" is one of the most successful Telugu films of recent times. Talks are already on for its Tamil and Hindi remakes.<br /><br />It has already been decided that actor-filmmaker Raghava Lawrencce will star in the film's Tamil version.<br /><br /></p>
<p>"Mungaru Male" fame Ganesh has been roped in to play the lead in the yet-untitled Kannada remake of recent Telugu hit "Pataas". The film is expected to roll from June.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"While Ganesh will be playing the lead, Manju Swaraj will be direct the project. Both Ganesh and Manju make a great team after the success of 'Shravani Subramanya', and so, I brought them together," the film's producer S.V. Babu told IANS.<br /><br />Tentatively title "Gani", the remake will not be a frame-to-frame copy of the original.<br /><br />"There's no point in merely copying scenes from the original in the remake, which can be done by anybody. We would make slight changes to suit the ethnicity and give our film a local flavour," he said, and added that they plan to start shooting from June.<br /><br />While the rest of the cast is yet to be finalised, Babu says that talks are on with actor Manoj Bajpayee to play an important role in the movie.<br /><br />Released earlier this year, "Pataas" is one of the most successful Telugu films of recent times. Talks are already on for its Tamil and Hindi remakes.<br /><br />It has already been decided that actor-filmmaker Raghava Lawrencce will star in the film's Tamil version.<br /><br /></p>