Tollywood’s biggest hit pair is back again’, proclaim the promotional teasers of Doosukeltha, produced by 24 Frames Factory. The “hit-pair” aren’t the lead actors Vishnu Manchu and Lavanya Tripathi, who are paired together for the first time. It’s Vishnu and Brahmanandam! “We have delivered two blockbusters — Dhee and Denikaina Ready — already and we are back again,” quips Vishnu, laughing. The lanky actor dismisses speculation that this movie is an extension of his previous comic entertainer, saying, “It is a completely different plot, even the comedy is very different. It’s going to be a laugh riot all the way.” Vishnu, who is playing an investigative television journalist in the movie, further informs, “It’s an incredibly funny character. How he lands in serious trouble and how Lavanya comes to his rescue is the crux of the plot. The movie isn’t a satire on the media. The humour is completely situational, arising from the twists in the plot.” Even the action sequences in the film are designed to evoke laughter, reckons Vishnu, saying, “I am a big fan Jackie Chan brand of action movies. Of course, I’m no martial arts expert and can’t do gravity defying stunts like Jackie Chan. But we’ve packed enough humour into the stunts as well.” The actor believes the audience mostly expects comedies and family entertainers from him. “I think the success of Dhee has something to do with this perception. It was a trendsetting movie which set the tone for comic entertainers in Tollywood. Personally, I’m a big fan of the action genre, but the success and failure of a movie depends entirely on a director’s ability to translate the idea onto the screen. As an actor, I just do what the director wants me to do and don’t get involved in the filmmaking unlike other stars,” says Vishnu, who tried his hand at many massy action films which turned out to be duds at the BO. Vishnu is also set to resume work on his dream project, Ravana, soon. “I was in the US doing pre-production work on Ravana last year when my dad called me back to India after listening to director Veeru Potla’s script. Then, director Srivas came up with a fantastic script that would feature my father Mohan Babu, Manoj, Lakshmi and me. Hence, Ravana was put on the backburner. But I am going to resume work on the movie from December,” he says. The actors tells us that it’s going to be an “epic”. “Ravana is going to be a multi-starrer with a budget of over 110 crores. There is a long way to go though, it’s going to take a lot of preparation,” says Vishnu, signing off.