Thikka, Directed by Sunil Reddy, Story and Screenplay by Sheik Dawood G, getting released in August

I'am very happy to announce that, Thikka the Telugu film starring Sai Dharam Tej, for which I had written the story and screenplay is going to get  released in August. Here is the Teaser of the film. Please do watch it and share it.
Love you all.

Thikka Movie Teaser

Express Raja, Super Hit - Thanks everybody

I have been here in Hyderabad since 2011. Telugu Film industry has given everything that what i have today, and made me into a person as what i am today, thanks for that. Today i am very proud to say that, i come from the school of Director Krishna Vamsi garu. I worked with Director Krishna Vamsi garu for almost a year on Mogudu, that was a great learning experience from the master himself. I am thankful to him for giving me a identity and a passport to enter into this industry. It is that knowledge which has brought me here today. I owe him a lot.
All the credit of success goes to Mr. John. E sir, my teacher, who has always been standing beside me, and been showing me the right path, without whom i would have never met Director Krishna Vamsi garu. Thank you sir.
Gandhi is more of a brother than a friend to me. I remember the days when we use to live in a 10 X 10 room for almost a year at Venkatagiri, when we were writing Venkatadri Express. That turned things up side down. Nothing speaks like success, Gandhi brought that very 'success' in to my carrier. Thanks so much brother.
We have come a long way since then. The journey after Venkatadri Express was as fun and  racy as Express Raja. Those two years of working on Express Raja was one of the best experiences i ever had writing a film. I am very thankful to Gandhi for giving a second hit in row, and adding one more success into my story. Thanks machi..
Thanks to everybody for recognising and liking our films. Love you all. Thanks to the Cast and Crew of Express Raja, who really made it happen.
I hope and wish to get  the same love and support from audience for all my future projects. I have three more releases this year as of now Thikka ( starring Sai Dharam Tej garu,  Story and Screenplay, in Telugu), a Hindi film (untitled) and a Marathi film (untitled).
All this would have not been possible without the support of the audience, thanks so much. Love you all.
Thanks to my friends, family and well wishers, for all the love that they have been showering on me all these days. Love you all. Thank you...............

Paradesi - Climax, just a thought

As a writer i couldn't stop myself  thinking about the climax. Bala had a lot of options to end the film. 

One, is the usual way of killing the villains (this would have become very usual one). 

The other one would have been: the villains keep the small girl kid, so that she can repay the debt of  her dad and mom, and send hero as he is no more useful (for this hero should have done two three escape attempts earlier and each time the villains punish him so cruelly that he becomes useless). Hero refuses to leave with out the kid, he gets bashed up and thrown out. Hero walks along with the crowd of slaves who were thrown out and that's when the new batch of slaves arrive. Hero leaves the guarded gate of the estate as the last person in the crowd that leaves the estate and he turns around to look at the estate for the last time and finds heroine entering inside the gate with the kid and they meet(same as whats there in the film once they meet). this would have give more twist to the drama, but will make you forget the pain the characters suffered and just escape with the wow factor. 

But Iam sure they would have defanately thought of all the possibilities, but you really need not just a gut but also a conviction to choose such a climax, because it was a very minimalistic climax, but you carry it with you when you leave the theater. he just wrote whats required for the film, for which you really need clean conviction. every film maker should learn this, may be it comes with time i don know.

why i thought of putting this as a post is that, i have been working with a lot of first time directors and what i see is that they want to put everything that they have thought all their life in one single film(the first film) and forget what the film is all about. just a thought.