Final touches are in progress for State Rowdy produced by Kattekola Srinivas, JV Umamaheswara Rao on the banner of Galaxy Media introducing SS Vikram Gandhi as director with Sivaji , Mallika Kapoor and Madhushalini in the lead.

Director says, 'I am very happy for getting an opportunity to direct the remake of a successful Tamil film 'Yediri' in Telugu. I am sure that the film would double the image of hero Sivaji ' Producers say, 'In fact, the film was made with Madhavan as hero under KS Ravikumar's direction in Tamil. The director brought out the film excellently on the screen. Now, the producers of the Telugu version also gave me a free hand and asked me not to compromise at any point.

Sivaji played an out and out mass character. The character gets the name of a rowdy without any provocation. To tone down the seriousness in the character, we gave a tag line as 'Veedikanta Scene Ledu'. Though the movie runs seriously, the audiences would get a lot of entertainment. Venumadhav's character as auto driver and MM Srilekha's music would remain a highlight. Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar scripted perfect lyrics to suit the tunes. We are planning to release the film in the first half of October.'