{"id":149445,"date":"2025-09-20T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149445\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:47:11","slug":"big-budget-tollywood-movie-shooting-scenes-in-margate-the-isle-of-thanet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149445\/","title":{"rendered":"Big budget \u2018Tollywood\u2019 movie shooting scenes in Margate \u2013 The Isle of Thanet News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Telugu film stars Vaishnavi Chaitanya and Anand Deverakonda Photo Frank Leppard<\/p>\n

Filming for a big budget \u2018Tollywood\u2019 movie has been taking place in Margate.<\/p>\n

Crews filmed along the seafront and King\u2019s Steps yesterday (September 19) and are due back again this evening.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Frank Leppard<\/p>\n

Tollywood is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language<\/p>\n

The \u00a31m movie, understood to be titled Production No.32, stars Vaishnavi Chaitanya and Anand Deverakonda.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Frank Leppard<\/p>\n

Vaishnavi, 32, is an award-winning Telugu actress who has a huge 2.1 million followers on social media.<\/p>\n

Anand, 33, worked in the\u00a0USA\u00a0before returning to India to pursue a full-time career in film. He also has an engineering degree.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Frank Leppard<\/p>\n

The new film, described as a love story, \u00a0launched with a puja ceremony on May 15, and began principal photography in June. The cast and crew came to the UK in August to shoot scenes in Margate and other Kent locations.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Frank Leppard<\/p>\n

It is directed by Aditya Hasan, with music by Hesham Abdul Wahab, under Sithara Entertainments. It is expected that filming has, or will, also take place at Dreamland. Last year Dreamland bosses revealed they were in talks for a Bollywood filming building takeover this year.<\/p>\n

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It is understood the film will be released for Valentine\u2019s Day 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telugu film stars Vaishnavi Chaitanya and Anand Deverakonda Photo Frank Leppard Filming for a big budget \u2018Tollywood\u2019 movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-149445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}