Veerappan Hunger For Killing Aims To Snag This Top Bollywood Veteran

AMR Ramesh’s (Cyanide, Game) ambitious web series, ‘Veerappan: Hunger for Killing’ is set to get bigger, as it aims to catch the best of veteran Bollywood talent for a prominent role. Word making the rounds is that the filmmaker has approached macho man Suneil Shetty to play a well known police officer in his web series. Whether his role is of THE police officer who succeeded in encountering Veerappan, or one of the several who lost their lives fighting Veerappan, is not yet known. The filmmaker is committed to enrolling top actors from multiple film industries, especially from Tamil, Telugu and Hindi cinema.

Veerappan: Hungry For Killing is planned as a ten part web series by AMR Ramesh, where he will capture the rise of the sandalwood smuggler, his many trysts with the law, his kidnapping of prominent citizens, and his subsequent death in 2004 by police encounter. Kishore has been locked in to play the role of Veerappan in the series. Other actors that have been confirmed are Ravi Kale, Raai Laxmi, Vijayalakshmi, Suchendra Prasad, along with several who had acted in Attahasa, AMR Ramesh’s earlier biopic film on Veerappan. Vijay Shankar is composing the music for Veerappan: Hunger For Killing.

The series will be premiering in four Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. The 60 day scheduled shoot will begin from August 10th under government safety measures and protocol, in Bengaluru and the forests of Karnataka.

The makers released a curtain raiser to Veerappan: Hunger For Killing on 23rd July, which received an enthusiastic response on social media.

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