India, July 8 -- Atharvaa Murali is gearing up for the release of his next Tamil release, Idhayam Murali. At the pre-release press meet for the film, the actor was asked why he did not do any Telugu films after the 2018 release Gaddalakonda Ganesh. The actor took the question positively and said that although he intended to do more Telugu films after the film, there was a major factor that caused a delay.

Atharvaa said, "After we did Gaddalakonda Ganesh I was going to do Telugu cinema. We had signed to do a couple of projects in Telugu only, but after that the whole Covid period came and I had already signed multiple films in Tamil. Not multiple also. I had commitments in Tamil where I had to finish that. So one thing led to another and ...