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Poster Talk: Is Shilpa Shetty playing Karanam Malleswari?

“In weight lifting, the hands carry more power. The weight lifters use powder to avoid sweat and get the grip. She would lift 240 kilos at a time. So we see Karanam Malleswari rubbing and dusting her hands before she lifts weights,” says Sanjana Reddy, director of Karanam Malleswari’s bio pic.

Journey of a girl who lifted the nation is the caption and it does strike an emotional chord. Interestingly, it is a Hindi movie that will be dubbed in Tamil and Telugu. She is from Sreekakulam and played her first match in Bangalore. She never played in India, except one match. Later she represented India. Though she is born in Sreekakulam and speaks Telugu, she moved to the North long back; Represented India when she was 14. That one decade 14 to 24 is supposed to show all the drama in the film. None have broken her record so far and the last she won was a bronze.

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She now works in FCI and is happily married. Many writers and producers have approached Malleswari earlier but she chose Sanjana instead. It is being presented by Kona Film Corporation and the film, its business and screenplay is being set up by Kona. The budget is estimated to be around seventy crores. A Bollywood actor has been roped in to play the role and we guess it could be Shilpa Shetty in all probability. Sanjana Reddy meanwhile has directed Raju Gadu and following its box office disaster waited for an opportune time to get back with a right script.

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