S Narayan's Cheluvina Chilipili is remake?

Earlier, it was reported that director S Narayan was doing second movie called Cheluvina Chilipili with his son Pankaj. Now rumours are making rounds in Gandhinagar that Cheluvina Chilipili is a remake of Telugu movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam. It is said that there are many striking similarities between these two movies.

Kotha Bangaru Lokam stars Varun Sandesh, Swetha Prasad, Prakash Rai and Jayasudha, where as Cheluvina Chilipili stars Pankaj, Roopika, Ananth Nag and Sumalatha. Moreover, Mickey J Mayor, who had scored music for Kotha Bangaru Lokam, has also scored music for Cheluvina Chilipili.

Another striking similarity between the movies is that both have same theme. Kotha Bangaru Lokam deals with the relationship between children and elders. S Narayan directed movie Cheluvina Chilipili also deals with the same theme.

After the failure of Chaitrada Chandrama, S Narayan has become very serious about his second movie with his son Pankaj. Cheluvina Chilipili is a love story. S Narayan has taken the responsibility of direction, music and writing story, screenplay and lyrics for the movie Cheluvina Chilipili.

However, the movie has already completed shooting and is now in the post-production works. Some of the sequences have been canned in beautiful locations of Germany and Austria.