Jr NTR Calls Sing Geetham a Film That Touched His Heart and the Entire Industry Is Agreeing
When a 94-year-old master walks back behind the camera and the result moves one of Telugu cinema’s biggest stars to publicly express awe, something genuinely extraordinary has happened.
A village cursed to speak only in song. A young girl standing between greed and the forest she loves. And behind it all, a 94-year-old filmmaker finally telling the story he has been carrying inside him for four decades. Sing Geetham is not just a film. It is an act of devotion.
There are films that entertain, and then there are films that mean something beyond the runtime. Sing Geetham, the musical fantasy directed by the legendary Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, appears to belong firmly in that second, rarer category. Released on June 12 to warmly receptive audiences, the film has since gathered a chorus of voices from across the Telugu film industry, each saying the same thing in their own way: this one is special. The latest and perhaps most moving voice to join that chorus belongs to Jr NTR, who took to social media not just to praise the Sing Geetham film but to personally present its trailer to audiences.
Jr NTR on Sing Geetham: What He Said and Why It Matters
A celebrity’s social media post about a film is, more often than not, a formality. This one reads differently. Jr NTR’s response to Sing Geetham carries the texture of someone who watched the film and sat with it afterward, rather than someone checking off a promotional obligation.
Jr NTR on X (formerly Twitter)
“Sing Geetham is a beautiful film that touched my heart. Legendary Singeetham Srinivasa Rao garu, at 94, delivering creativity and wisdom like only he can, is deeply inspiring to witness. Devi Sri Prasad, you nailed it throughout! You brought magic to every scene.”
Jr NTR — continued
“Nag Ashwin, fulfilling a legend’s 40-year dream is nothing short of a god’s boon. The tribute you and Vyjayanthi Films have given to Singeetham garu is remarkable. Kudos to the entire team! Just like Singeetham Srinivasa Rao garu’s films always surprise us, releasing the trailer after the film is the biggest surprise and I’m honoured to present it to you all.”
That last detail is worth pausing on. The trailer for Sing Geetham was released after the film had already hit theatres, a decision so unusual in contemporary cinema that it essentially becomes a statement about what kind of film this is. No algorithms, no calculated marketing windows, no audience priming. Just a film that arrived on its own terms and let people discover it. Jr NTR recognised that for exactly what it is, a surprise that could only come from a filmmaker operating on an entirely different creative frequency.
Releasing a trailer after a film is already in theatres is either an act of madness or an act of complete artistic confidence. Given who directed this film and what the response has been, the answer is obvious.
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao at 94: The Legend Behind Sing Geetham
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Singeetham Srinivasa RaoReturns to the director’s chair after years away, fulfilling a creative vision he has carried for over four decades. One of Indian cinema’s most inventive and beloved filmmakers, back doing what he was born to do.
To understand why the entire film industry is responding to Sing Geetham with such collective reverence, you need to understand who Singeetham Srinivasa Rao is. This is not simply an elderly filmmaker making a sentimental final effort. This is one of Indian cinema’s most genuinely original creative minds, a director whose body of work has influenced generations of filmmakers, returning to the craft at an age when most people are decades removed from their professional lives. The fact that his comeback film is an experimental musical fantasy, not a safe, retrospective crowd-pleaser, says everything about the man.
Producer Nag Ashwin and Vyjayanthi Films making it possible for Singeetham to realise a dream he has carried for 40 years is the kind of gesture that transcends business. Jr NTR calling it “nothing short of a god’s boon” is not hyperbole. It is the appropriate scale of acknowledgment for what was actually done here.
Cast at a Glance
Lead – Young Girl
Shalini Kondepudi
Prominent Role
Ahilya
Lead Role
Ayaan
The film introduces fresh faces to carry a story of considerable emotional and fantastical weight, which in itself reflects the director’s instinct to build something new rather than lean on familiar star power. Shalini Kondepudi leads the narrative as a young woman whose conviction becomes the moral backbone of an entire village’s reckoning with greed and nature.
The Technical Firepower Behind Sing Geetham
| Director | Singeetham Srinivasa Rao |
| Music Director | Devi Sri Prasad |
| Producer | Nag Ashwin |
| Production Banner | Vyjayanthi Films |
| Trailer Presenter | Jr NTR |
| Theatrical Release | June 12, 2025 |
Music director Devi Sri Prasad receives specific, personal praise from Jr NTR, not a general mention, but a targeted acknowledgment that his work brought genuine magic to individual scenes. In a film where the central curse forces an entire village to communicate only through song, the music is not background texture. It is the language of the story itself. That DSP rose to that responsibility is clear from the reception the film has gathered.
Why Sing Geetham Is One of the Most Unique Telugu Films of 2025
The story at the heart of Sing Geetham operates on multiple levels simultaneously. On the surface, it is a tale set in a village called Kuberapuram, perched above gold mines that the community is tempted to sell in pursuit of sudden wealth. A young girl refuses to let that happen, understanding instinctively that cutting down trees and selling the earth beneath them is a transaction with consequences that money cannot reverse. She finds an unexpected ally in a young man, and their shared resistance eventually draws in forces far older and stranger than either anticipated.
The curse that arrives, stripping the village of ordinary speech and replacing it entirely with song, transforms the film from a social drama into something much more inventive. It is a premise that only a filmmaker of Singeetham’s particular imagination would conceive, and only a production house with Vyjayanthi Films’ commitment to meaningful cinema would back without flinching.
Industry voices who have publicly celebrated the film include Kamal Haasan and Chiranjeevi, alongside a growing list of names who have made the rare choice to speak about a film not because they were asked to, but because it moved them.
Verdict on the Trailer
Sing Geetham arrives as one of those rare films that the industry instinctively rallies around, not out of obligation but out of genuine emotion. A 94-year-old master fulfilling a four-decade creative vision, supported by a production house brave enough to let a trailer drop after the film has already opened, celebrated by Jr NTR in words that carry real feeling rather than promotional polish, this is what cinema looks like when it operates from its best instincts. Go watch it in theatres while you still can.
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