With a spring in his step, Rana Daggubati in his white tees, while launching Tissot’s classic edition watch, Chemmin des Tourelles at Forum Sujana Mall has a shimmering glow on his face. It gets more apparent as the conversation begins to revolve around his latest release, Baahubali - The Beginning .
A good shade of his spontaneity comes to the fore when he labels it the right ‘time’ to talk about the film and his career otherwise. He exclaims, “It is heartening to know that the very same people who talked mostly about my personality prior to its release are complimenting my acting skills and diction. Why wouldn’t I be happy?”
The collections of the film are mounting to great levels, day after day, the latest being to the tune of 200 crore and above.
On the other front, the majority of the talk is still about the scale. Hasn’t it somehow toned down the focus on the content? “In films, the content and business aspects always go together, on the parallel note. So, the limelight surrounding the numbers too is fairly warranted,” the actor clarifies as he readies himself for a new schedule of the film’s sequel, the coming month.
He’s also delighted for the fact that Baahubali , after a considerable gap from the days of Vitthalacharya’s folklore has been an ambassador of sorts to revive folklore and fantasy fiction in Telugu cinema.
“This is a matter of satisfaction that my next release happens to be Rudramadevi too, another bilingual and I’m sure of the connect, given it’s a true story. The CG work of the film has been wrapped too,” says Rana, hinting a thing or two about the film set to release in the coming weeks.
Even if the actor has had his share of stints in multiple languages in the past, a success of this scale, also in the Tamil and the Hindi versions, he accepts, has given him a career push like never before. It’s an easy guess that things may get tougher for him to choose scripts, owing to comparisons that might arise.
He isn’t exactly bothered though. “Two films can never be compared. Crowds are well aware of what to expect, after the promos. Each to its own,” puts the on-screen Bhallaladeva, as he also gears up for another Tamil release Arjun, Divya Matrum Karthik , a remake of the Malayalam blockbuster Bangalore Days , later this year.
