Shared interests and life goals brought actors Vishnu Vishal and Ravi Teja together Tamil actor Vishnu Vishal will soon be doing a straight Telugu film titled ‘Matti Kusthi’ (Mud Wrestling) and actor Ravi Teja will be producing the movie along with Vishnu Vishal. So, what brought these two men together in the first place? Apparently, an executive producer of Ravi Teja was good friends with the Badminton Champion Jwala Gutta, who also happens to be the wife of Vishnu Vishal. The executive producer met Vishnu Vishal at a party and opined that Ravi Teja and he should meet as they share similar views on cinema. This was before Vishnu Vishal’s film FIR had released. “When I met him, I showed him the trailers of my films ‘FIR’ and ‘Mohandas’. He asked me about my other films and I narrated the story of ‘Matti Kusthi’ which he liked immensely. That’s when he said he would produce the film,” said Vishnu Vishal. “I think part of the reason why he decided to produce the film is because he understood when I said I wanted to make a name for myself. Ravi Teja also came up the hard way by starting out as a junior artiste. After ‘FIR’, many producers are approaching me but Ravi Teja believed in me even before the movie released and became successful. Before ‘FIR’, I lost out on as many as nine projects because there was no market for me. Ravi Teja was the only one who believed in me,” added Vishnu Vishal.