Vakeel Saab (2021)

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Vakeel Saab is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language legal drama film co-written and directed by Venu Sriram. The film was produced by Dil Raju, Sirish and Boney Kapoor under their banners Sri Venkateswara Creations and Bayview Projects. It is a remake of the 2016 Hindi-language film Pink and stars Pawan Kalyan, Nivetha Thomas, Anjali, Ananya Nagalla, Prakash Raj, and Shruti Haasan. The film features score and soundtrack by S. Thaman. Despite the second COVID lockdown being announced just five days after its release, the movie went on to become a box office hit following Agnyaathavaasi

Production

Venu Sriram began working on the Telugu remake of Pink (2016) after his project with Allu Arjun, Icon, was put on hold. On November 2, 2019, it was announced that Pawan Kalyan would star in this remake. This would mark Kalyan's return to acting after a hiatus due to his political campaign in the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

On January 20, 2020, filming for the Telugu remake of Pink began. This film marked Kalyan's return to cinema after a two-year break following Agnyaathavaasi (2018). The project was announced as a joint production between Dil Raju of Sri Venkateswara Creations and Boney Kapoor's Bayview Projects LLP, which acquired the Telugu and Tamil remake rights of Pink (the Tamil version being Nerkonda Paarvai). The film features music by S.

During the pre-production works, the tentative titles Maguva, Lawyer Saab, and Vakeel Saab, were under consideration for the film before Vakeel Saab was finalised as official title in March 2020. In a September 2020 interview, director Venu Sriram announced that the film cannot be made as a commercial entertainer due to the social issues involved in the Hindi counterpart, but staying true to the original script, the team had made some changes sui…

Pawan Kalyan was reported to essay Amitabh Bachchan's role while Anjali, Nivetha Thomas, and Ananya Nagalla were cast in pivotal roles. The team decided to approach Shruti Haasan and Ileana D'Cruz to appear for a cameo role, essaying the character of Kalyan's wife in the film. While Haasan initially refuted being a part of the film's cast, she later confirmed her presence in July 2020, despite not revealing her role in the film.

Principal photography of the film commenced on 20 January 2020 in Hyderabad. In the end of February 2020, shooting of the film took place at Annapurna Studios with intense scenes being shot on Pawan Kalyan and Prakash Raj. The film's production was halted for six months due to COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and on 22 September 2020, the shooting of the film resumed in Hyderabad, following the relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown in India with the tea…

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