On Monday, Sai Pallavi’s birthday, the first trailer for Gautham Ramachandran’s upcoming trilingual film Gargi was released. She shared the video on Twitter, which included footage from the filming of some scenes and gave a glimpse into the making of the film. Pallavi can be seen in a dubbing suite near the end of the video repeating her lines in three languages: Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.
Pallavi is seen struggling to get her Kannada lines right in the video, but she eventually succeeds. Pallavi will be making her Kannada debut with this project, and she has dubbed her own lines.
“I waited months to talk about this film, and finally!!!” she wrote on Twitter after sharing the video. The obstinate team finally caved in and released this on my birthday. “I present you with GARGI (sic).” According to the trailer and the first look poster, the film will be set in a courtroom.
She also shared the film’s posters in English, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada in another tweet. She wrote alongside the posters, “Gargi (red heart emoji). Send her your best wishes!”
Sai Pallavi was last seen in the Telugu film Shyam Singh Roy, in which she played a Devadasi character, and Nani, a writer-activist who falls in love with her, referred to her as Rosie. She is currently waiting for the Telugu film Virataparvam to be released. In this Venu Udugala-directed film, she plays a Naxalite alongside Rana Daggubati, Priyamani, and Nandita Das.
Sai Pallavi’s character in the film is based on Belli Lalitha, a popular folk singer-turned-activist who was a key figure in the Telangana region’s fight for statehood in the early 1990s. In 1999, she was kidnapped and murdered.
Virataparvam illuminates the Naxal movement, particularly the moral dilemma that existed in the previous decade. Sai Pallavi’s Telugu film Love Story, in which she co-starred Naga Chaitanya, was one of her biggest hits of the year.
