Even in using the title we ape. It was Mandiveli the locality of Chennai 28 in Tamil and it is Magadi Road locality in Bengaluru 23!

In 2007 when Chennai 5600028 was released on April 27 it was directed by Venkat Prabhu. Actors Jai, Shiva, Nithin Sathya, Aravind Akash, Premji Amaran, Vijay Vasanth, Prasanna, Rajith, Karthik, Arjun and others have played galli cricket in real life? We don’t know.

But in this remake of Bengaluru 560 023 our CCL guys JK, Dhruv Sharma, Rajeev, Chandan and a few others have played leather ball cricket. The team also has two lovely looking Sanjana and Shivani.

Seven years after in Kannada this film went on the floors at Doddaganapathi temple. Kichcha Sudeep was present to light ‘Deepa’ for the muhuruth.

It is a tennis ball cricket Pradeep Raj is taking up and set five days for the climax tussle between Malleswaram and Magadi Road street cricket players contest.

Puneeth and Manu are producing this film with director Pradeep Raj. It has been dream of Pradeep Raj that he kept it for so long. Before Kirataka he wanted to take up. This Tamil version appeared in two other languages Simhalese and Bengali he remembers. It is a matter of a few lakhs as remake rights. We have made thorough changes as the actors in this film are known in big screen and more in Celebrity Cricket League says Pradeep Raj.

Dhruva Sharma and Sanjana plus JK and Shivani is another pair in the film.

Arun is scoring music for nine songs and Dharani is man behind camera.

In Kannada we had state award winning film ‘Kabbaddi’ based on the game. Around the same time a Tamil film was also made. Kishore was common factor in Kannada and Tamil language films.

Apparently the first cricketing shot on silver screen came up from Dr Rajakumar in ‘Eradu Kanasu