India, July 16 -- Kannada cinema's magical composer Arjun Janya's maiden directorial venture, 45, is one of the most anticipated films of the year. He's got Shivarajkumar, Upendra and Raj B Shetty leading the cast and all that one heard of when the film was initially announced was just how prepared Arjun was before he went on floors. He'd convinced his producer, Ramesh Reddy, and the cast not with story narrations, but by showing them the film itself, having prepared an animated version of it beforehand. He had absolute clarity and, therefore, did not shoot anything that would not make it to the final edit.

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