Pawan Kalyan-starrer ‘Bheemla Nayak’ hit theatres on February 25, setting the Telugu box office on fire. And now, a month after the release, the movie is all set to drop on OTT platforms. The Saagar K Chandra directorial revolves around the ego clash between a police officer and an ex-army officer. It will start streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar and Aha from March 25 onwards.
The movie opened to mixed reviews in February. In an interview earlier, director Saagar K Chandra said that the first challenge of making the remake was to create a larger-than-life character for Pawan Kalyan. He said, “When Trivikram and I were discussing adapting the film in Telugu, the first challenge was to make Biju Menon’s character larger than life and ensure that the film revolved around him. The character was played by Pawan Kalyan in Telugu.”
He added, “In ‘Ayyappanum Koshiyum’, Koshi’s character was more important. So, in Telugu, a kind of paradigm shift happened. We then had to crunch a 3-hour film into less than 2 hours 30 minutes. The original version was a procedural film, with most of the emotional outburst limited to the last 30 minutes. It’s difficult to keep the audience engaged for half an hour without a change in the arc. To push up the tempo, we made many changes,” he said.
