Pooja Hegde, as we all know, has been cast as the female lead in Puri Jagannadh's next pan-India entertainer Jana Gana Mana. She will star with Vijay Deverakonda, who will play an Army officer in the film.

"Puri Jagannadh was eager to put Pooja in the role and has recently given narration. She liked both her role and the script and agreed to sign on the dotted line. "She has allotted 45 days for the shoot and is expected to join the sets in the first week of June," a source claims, adding that "the majority of the film will be shot in Europe and the makers are determined to complete the full production by March 2023."

Jana Gana Mana movie will be directed by Puri Jagannadh and it will be produced by Charmme Kaur, Vamshi Paidipally and Puri Jagannadh under the Puri Connects banner. This Pan-Indian movie will be made in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam languages and will be released on 3rd August, 2023 in the theatres!