Having debuted in 2006 with the movie Devadasu, Ram Pothineni has worked in over 17 movies in his thirteen year career. After a string of poor returns at the Box Office, he was in desperate need of a hit and that is exactly what he got with his last outing, the super duper blockbuster iSmart Shankar! The movie recently even completed 100 days at the theatres. After this movie, Ram began work on his 18th project, which had the working title #RAPO18! On the occasion of Deepavali, it had been announced that the title and first look of this movie would be released on October 28th and as promised, the two are here!

Ram Pothineni's 18th project, with director Kishore Tirumala, has been titled Red! This movie's first look poster has an intense Ram in a new avatar. Some reports state that this movie is the Telugu remake of the super hit Tamil movie Thadam, which had Arun Vijay in the lead and was directed by Magizh Thirumeni. Thadam is a crime thriller about a pair of twins and a murder. Red, bankrolled by Krishna Pothineni's Sri Sravanthi Movies banner, has music by Mani Sharma. Revealing the title and first look through a tweet, Ram also mentioned that this movie would be "So-bloody-different!"

There are some speculations that Nivetha Pethuraj and Malvika Sharma have been roped in as the two female leads for Ram Pothineni, in Red. The pre-production work for this movie is on in full swing and the makers are set to begin filming from the second week of November. There are also reports that iSmart Shankar, directed by Puri Jagannadh, will have a sequel with the title Double iSmart! Keep watching this space for all the updates...

Check out Ram Pothineni's tweet here:

💥!! #RED !!💥

This one is going to be...So-Bloody-Different! 🔥#REDTheFilm #RAPO18 #RAPO18FIRSTLOOK pic.twitter.com/4jXhicUyrK

— RAm POthineni (@ramsayz) October 28, 2019