Is Sumanth’s Idam Jagath ‘inspired by’ Dan Gilroy and Jake Gyllenhaal's Nightcrawler?

The teaser

of ‘

Idam Jagath

’, which sees Sumanth and Anju Kurian in lead roles, was released on Tuesday by YS Jaganmohan Reddy, the founder and leader of YSR Congress.

The teaser seems to project the film as an edge-of-the-seat thriller, revolving around the character Sumanth plays, who works as a stringer and is not shy from getting and even creating sensational

crime news

items for news networks.

While director Anil Srikantam did not announce anywhere that the film is an official remake of the hit Hollywood thriller ‘Nightcrawler’, is it difficult to ignore the similarities. In fact, the trailer too sees many reproduced scenes of the film. One would think that Trivikram’s ‘Agnyaathavaasi’ and its consecutive failure had taught TFI the lesson it needed.

Produced by Jonnalagadda Padmavate and Sreedhar under Viraat Films and Sri Vignesh Karthik Cinemas, the film also sees Satya, Priyadarshi Ram, Aditya Menon and more in key roles. Balreddy Patlolla has helmed the camera, Sricharan Pakala has composed the music and Chandra Sekhar has penned the dialogues for the film.