Bollywood Producer-director Rohan Sippy’s rough, hard-hitting film on the drug hullabaloo in Goa, encouraged by Hollywood’s Traffic, has lastly set up a second hero. The role, which was at the start offered to Farhan Akhtar and Emraan Hashmi, has now gone to Rana Daggubati, the Telugu star-on-the-rise, based in Hyderabad. Abhishek Bachchan is playing the lead role in the film. Rana is a fury in the Telugu film industry after he made his acting debut with the hard-hitting political thriller, Leader. 

He was preferred to play Abhishek Bachchan’s co-star since he fit the bill. Rana will now be one more South Indian actor trying his luck in Hindi films after the likes of Kamal Haasan. Rajnikant, Chiranjeevi and Rana’s uncle, Venkatesh Rohan Sippy established the casting, “Yes, I have signed Rana for the film I am directing.”