Kangana Ranaut Starrer Jayalalitha Biopic Hits Financial Roadblock!

Bollywood has a number of biopics lined up for release. After the success of Manikarnika, Kangana Ranaut was interested to work on more biopics and real life stories that involved strong women. She was working of Tamil Nadu’s ex Chief Minister, Jayalalitha’s biopic as well. Titled Thalaivi, she was supposed to play the lead role and portray Jayalalitha. But even before the film could roll out and the shoot could start, it has hit a major financial roadblock.

According to a report by a leading daily, Thalaivi is proving to be very costly for the producers. The tentative budget of the film, that was to release in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, was 55 crores. Kangana was also charging a hefty 24 crores as her fees for the film. Given the expenditure, no one is willing to invest into the film!

Well, the film was being written by the writer of Baahubali, KV Vijayendra Prasad. The shoot for the film was supposed to start to start from October, but now it seems like the film would ber pushed. Kangana Ranaut will next be seen in Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga, which also stars Richa Chadda. She will also be seen in the action film Dhaakad, where she will play a spy.