NTR biopic, starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, Vidya Balan, Rana Daggubati, to release on 9 January, 2019

The release date of the much awaited NTR biopic has been announced as 9 January next year, along with a still of Nandamuri Balakrishna as the legendary actor and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, popularly known as NTR.

#NTRBiopic finalises the release date: 9 Jan 2019... Nandamuri Balakrishna as the legendary #NTR in #NTRBiopic - #Kathanayakudu... Costars Vidya Balan, Rana Daggubati and Sumanth... Directed by Krish... Produced by Balakrishna, Vishnu Vardhan Induri and Sai Korrapati. pic.twitter.com/lzJjWbWV7j

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) October 4, 2018

Apart from Nandamuri Balakrishna, the biopic boasts of a star-studded cast that includes Vidya Balan, who will be playing role of wife of NTR, Basavatarakam whom he married when he was 20 years old, Rana Daggubati  as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Sumanth, in the role of A Nageswara Rao, another Telugu film industry stalwart and Sachin Khedekar will be seen playing former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Nadendla Bhaskara Rao. Furthermore, there were also speculations that  Rakul Preet Singh  had been approached to play late actress Sridevi in the film, but no confirmation has been received yet. The shooting of the NTR biopic began in July and it is being produced by N Balakrishna along with Sai Korrapti and Vishnu Induri, as has been reported earlier.