Varun Tej the third gen actor from the Konidela Family and the son of veteran actor Nagendra Babu. He launched into the Tollywood Film Industry as a child artist in 2000 in his father’s movie “Hands Up”. His undying love to face the camera, cut and action pushed him to do the debut movie as the lead in the romantic drama movie “Mukhunda” alongside Pooja Hegde in 2014.
Following that he has done 14 movies so far, and received accolades & commercial success for the movies “Kanche” and “Fidaa”. In his film roaster he had done many dual hero scripts and only few movies which he carries on his shoulder as a lead.
His search felt fulfilled by choosing the movie “Matka”. Actor Varun Tej took the lead role in “Matka” which is completely divergent from previous choices of movies and characters in his enlarging career in Tollywood.
The Real Life Inspired Story
It is reported that “Matka” the period action and drama movie is based on true events about the Matka gambling and the life around the gangster and setting the movie between 1958 and 1982 era. Varun does the role of a Matka gambler named Ratan Khetri.
He has given his blood and soul and showcased the variations in his get up, physique throughout the movie and also the scope of performing a high range of emotions can be seen in the newly released trailer. Meanwhile, the film covers the twenty four years of his journey in detail. The tone of the movie looks retro, a little shady and dark, with some colourful elements. This movie unfolds the life, love, rage, gambling, fight, betrayal and jealousy behind the lead character Matka Vasu.
KA – period action & drama movie’s trailer was disclosed with banger cuts! Team of “Matka”
| Director | Karuna Kumar |
| Cast | Varun Tej, Meenakshi Choudhary, Nora Fatehi Kishore, Naveen Chandra, Ajay Gosh |
| Music | G.V.Prakash Kumar |
| Release Date | November 14th, 2024 |
This is another periodic action movie for the director Karuna Kumar whose debut and previous movie was “Palasa 1978” starring Rakshith, released in 2020.
