Raja, Manjari pair up together

Manjari of Jaane Tu and Siddu From Seekakulam is on a roll. She has signed another Telugu film. Manjari has paired up with the young hero Raja in his new film to be directed by Suman Paturi and produced by Kalyan Palla.
Suman Paturi acted as the co-director for the successful film Vennela which also had Raja as the lead actor. He then left for San Francisco to study filmmaking for a while. Kalyan Palla has made a name for himself as a distributor and exhibitor of Telugu movies in USA.
This new movie with Raja and Manjari also has Richa Pollad as the second female lead. Story and screenplay is provided by Raj & DK and Mahesh Shankar of Vennela is scoring the music. Nagaraju Gandham of Gamyam fame is writing the dialogues. Cinematography is handled by Ranga who studied in the Pune Film Institute and worked under Santosh Sivan in the past. Shooting starts on December 2nd, and the movie is tentatively scheduled for a May 2009 release.