Ram
Gopal
Varma
has
put
his
proposed
Amitabh
Bachchan
starrer
Buddha:
Don"t
F…K
With
Him
directed
by
Telugu
cinema"s
most
successful
director
Puri
Jagannath,
on
the
back
burner.
Instead,
Varma
and
Puri
are
getting
together
to
produce
and
direct
Surya
in
The
Businessman.
Says
Puri
Jagaanath,
“It"s
the
story
of
a
gangster"s
journey
from
Chennai
to
Mumbai
in
three
languages.
The
movie
is
being
made
in
Hindi,
Tamil,
and
Telugu." Puri
has
written
the
screenplay
on
his
own.
Strangely,
none
of
the
three
individuals
helming
the
project
is
fluent
in
Hindi.
Jagannath,
who
is
the
highest-paid
director
of
the
South
with
an
enviable
track-record
of
Telugu
blockbusters,
admits
there
is
a
linguistic
problem
in
creating
The
Businessman
in
Hindi.
“I
agree,
I
don"t
know
the
language.
Neither
does
Ramu
nor
Surya.
But
I
don"t
think
that
would
be
a
problem."
Ram
Gopal
Varma,
who
will
produce
the
film
is
far
more
forthright,
“I"d
have
you
know
that
Murugadoss
who
made
Ghajini
and
Prabhu
Deva
who
directed
Wanted,
didn"t
even
know
the
Hindi
alphabet
and
couldn"t
speak
a
word
of
Hindi.
I
think
we"ll
manage
quite
well."
The
Businessman
will
start
shooting
in
September.
Jagannath,
who"s
a
cult
name
in
Telugu
cinema,
is
relocating
to
Mumbai
to
be
able
to
acclimatize
himself
with
Bollywood.
Says
the
softspoken
Telugu
director,
“Many
years
ago
also,
I
tried
to
crack
the
Hindi
market
with
a
film
starring
Tusshar
Kapoor.
That
was
a
disaster.
So
I
see
The
Businessman
as
my
true
beginning
in
Bollywood."