While the makers of Panganama are putting word out that Sadhu Kokila is the hero of the film, the actor himself is saying that he is not the lead actor of the film. However, he has said that he has an important role in the project. Panganama was launched on April 24. Gururaj, who had assisted Kodlu Ramakrishna and others, is making his directorial debut with this project, and also has a prominent role in the film.
Sadhu plays a sub inspector in
Panganama and the entire film revolves around him. However, Sadhu insists he is not the lead actor of the film, but that director Gururaj is the real hero of the film. Sadhu even says that he had a major role in Upendra's
Ra, which was made in Telugu. While he had 56 scenes in the film, Upendra had only 40 scenes. So even though he had a more scenes, it was was Upendra who was the hero. He insists that this is also the case with
Panganama.