![]() Girija was accompanying cricketer Srikkanth’s sister when she attended the marriage of Mani Ratnam and Suhasini in Chennai. Mani was moved emotionally when he read those diary pages and wanted to name his film, and the heroine, after the little girl. Geethanjali is the name of a Delhi-based 11-year-old girl who was suffering from cancer and wrote her emotions in a diary that got printed at that time. Based on that single line, he prepared the story and screenplay. And Mani had a basic storyline based on Young Die First, an English movie in which both the male and female lead know that they’re going to die soon. At that time, Nagarjuna was ready to do a film with Mani Ratnam. Initially, I wanted to remake Mani Ratnam’s Agni Natchattiram in Telugu with Venkatesh and Nagarjuna, but it didn’t work out, and we dubbed it Gharshana. Narasa Reddy is about the making of the film…
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