Kartikeya Gummakonda and Lavanta Tripathi starrer Chaavu Kaburu Challaga to hit screens on March 19

Debutant director Koushik Pegallapati’s Kartikeya Gummakonda and Lavanya Tripathi starrer

Chaavu Kaburu Challaga

has a release date!

The film’s team took to social media to announce that this dark comedy will hit screens on March 19. Kartikeya also took to social media and wrote, “Ee March19th ki..Balaraju gadu ,Mallika theatres ki osthunaru #ChaavuKaburuChallaga cheppadanki. Super excited for this next big step in my career with prestigious @GeethaArts directed by super talented @Koushik_psk, Costarring our own beautiful rakshasi @Itslavanya.” (sic) (Balaraju and Mallika will arrive soon to the theatres to tell the story of Chaavu Kaburu Challaga)


Kartikeya plays the role of a graveyard worker called Basthi Balaraju in the film, who seems dissatisfied with the life he leads. He gets enamoured by a nurse called Mallika, played by Lavanya, who changes his life. The film went on floors in 2019 with Allu Bobby’s daughter Anvitha giving the first clap and Allu Arjun’s son Ayaan directing the first shot. The film is presented by Allu Aravind and bankrolled by Geetha Arts. The teaser of the film looked promising and it remains to be seen how the film will fare