Gautham Menon found Ram's replacement, Not Jeeva

Gautham Vasudev Menon has found a replacement for Ram, who opted out of the Telugu version of his trilingual, which is titled 'Neethane En Ponvasantham' in Tamil. And it's not Jiiva, the protagonist of the Tamil version as reported earlier.

Instead, the director will film the Telugu portions with Naani of 'Ashta Chemma' fame, who was seen playing a crucial role in 'Veppam', a movie produced by Gautham Menon. Impressed by his skills, Gautham has roped in Nani for the project," sources say.

Aditya Roy Kapur is playing the lead role in the Hindi version of this trilingual love story, while Samantha is the heroine of all the three versions. "It is about an engineering student falling in love with a psychology student. It will be as sweet as Gautham's earlier love stories," sources say.

AR Rahman is touted to compose the music for 'Neethane En Ponvasantham'. Shooting for the film is expected to complete by the beginning of 2012, after which Gautham is scheduled to start 'Yohan Adhyayam Ondru', his first movie with Vijay.

Ram walked out of Gautham Menon's movie

 Gautham Vasudev Menon’s romantic entertainer Neethane En Ponvasantham (NEP) which is simultaneously made in three languages has hit the rock.

It is well known that the film is being made with Jeeva in Tamil, Ram in Telugu and Aditya Roy Kapoor in Hindi. Now we hear that the hero of Telugu version Ram has walked of the film leaving Gautham stranded. Sources revealed that Ram has a problem in waiting for his shot until Jeeva and Aditya complete their shot before his chance comes. Gautham has decided to shoot the film as per the order of seniority of the actor or his star ratings.

This process of waiting has irked Ram after shooting for ten days for the film and finally opted out of this romantic entertainer as doesn’t want to waste his time.

The next big thing for Gautham is to replace Ram by another charming actor and lets us wait and see on who will be the lucky star to join Gautham’s camp.

Meanwhile, the shoot of the film might be put on hold as he is filming for all the three languages simultaneously.

Ram walked out of Gautham Menon's film

Actor Ram, who is basking the success of Kandireega (Telugu), has walked out of his dream project with master film maker Gautham Menon due to a spat with Bellamkonda Suresh, producer of the recently released Kandireega over remuneration issues.

According to sources, the producer tried to withhold the actor's remuneration by keeping it pending till the last hour before the release of Kandireega. Ram later approached MAA for help and after a few rounds of discussions, the dispute was settled recently when the producer agreed to pay the total amount (nearly one crore).

Soon after he got the remuneration, Ram announced that he has made a tough decision by dropping out of the Gautham Menon film, which is also produced by Bellamkonda Suresh. Although the actor’s uncle and producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore holds 50% rights in Gautam Menon’s film, Ram still did not want to do it. The proposed film is being made in Telugu and Tamil.