Six months, one dialect: The story behind Sai Pallavi’s breakthrough in Fidaa | Telugu News
The phone call from Sekhar Kammula found Sai Pallavi in the wrong country for the right reason. She was in Tbilisi, halfway through the final stretch of her MBBS at the Tbilisi State Medical University, where she had been studying. Shekar Kammula had a script that needed a native Telangana dialect. When he narrated to her over the phone, she knew immediately that this is what she wanted to do. Her degree was something she was going to finish regardless. She told the director he would have to wait and he did. Six months later, with her medical qualification completed in 2016, she came back to him. That was the beginning of Fidaa. Starting from scratch with a dialect Fidaa, released in 2017, is a Telugu romantic drama written and directed by Sekhar Kammula and produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateswara Creations. The film stars Varun Tej as Varun, an NRI medical student based in Texas, and Sai Pallavi as Bhanumathi, a confident and rooted young woman from Telangana. The two meet when Sai …
