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You won't believe this.

How to sit, what color clothes to wear, if you wear black, you can look negative, if you wear white, you can look positive.

Oh!

I've heard so many details. So how much do you spend on the PR?

I told you earlier, right?

If you walk on the road like a mad person, it's like you've become a KFC ketchup. Changing your business strategy. When we were shooting in Ladakh, I said the dialogue. It's very difficult to leave the people you love. I left two of them at once. Everyone wants a love story. This is the famous mark of Ladakh.

You can find Pashmina Silk here. My dad told me something.

Naturally, there is pain behind sarcastic and humorous people. They keep saying.

Once, I was hanging out with a producer. They introduced me. He is a director. He out with a producer. They introduced me to him. He's a director. He's going to make a film. There was a party going on. Everyone was getting drunk. I asked him if he knew how to dance. He said, yes.

I said, I'll do it.

I was crazy. I did it. 20-30 people were drinking and I danced. I thought he'd give me a chance. That was the behavior. They thought they could have fun at my expense. I'm speaking in English.

Oh, okay.

Because you're into multiple skillsets.

I'm speaking a lot in English.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Are you ready? Are the glasses ready? I'm asking you.

Because of the trailer cut. Is it?

This happened.

The thumb rule is that when you go to a location and perform, there will be 100 people. I understood that the scene would be good if they laughed. If there was a doubt that he wasn't coming, they removed him. Now there will be a Gunappam joke in part 1. Now that you have put in my... He asked me why I didn't close the dialogue. He is a hero, right?

If I knew what he would say, I would have closed it. He wrote so much, he would talk so much if he goes there. He doesn't even know what the problem is. He'll make ice cream and give it to someone. Do we need ice cream? I don't know what's happening in the world. He wants a classic, not a hit. Why do you need all this?

Learn to select the right trip. You're asking a tough question, Radhika. DJ Dillu AKA Sidhu Chonnala Gata What happened after Jack? I didn't want anyone to incur losses in the process. So I just gave back the money. I have a question that I want to ask seriously. If you put aside the discussion about giving money, or the advice you gave, how would you be in the moment of giving? We are the money until we give.

We are the money until we go out.

Yes.

So, the fraction of a second we give, our brain generally goes around 100. So, what was running in your mind at that point of time?

Actually, after deciding to give, I didn't think much about it again. But what was running in my mind was, I had already paid the money. So, I was in the mindset of paying back that amount. So, I was not thinking about giving back the money.

But I was not thinking about giving back the money, but I was like, I have given this, now how to repay this loan? I was in that mood. Because of the new transaction? Again, it's a new, it's interest will be used for that, you have to, if you don't repay it in a few days, that interest will be mounted, right? So that stress was more in my head. That's great, nice.

So there was no any doubt about it. If I have a doubt that it's not true, then I... I'm generally weak in PR, bro. Actually, I have questions. Why are you so away from social media? I can see it. I don't think I'm very good at it. And when I'm not very good at something, I don't think I should do it and make a fool out of myself.

What's good or bad? If you ask me, I'll be very confident and say I can write a good script. I'm good at it. I can write. I know that. Can you handle social media? Can you create PR about you? I'm more like... I'm in a mood to talk about my movie. Even though I have a lot of PR people, I'm a very tough person for all the PR guys to handle.

Yesterday, Shekhar brother called me and said, Brother, there is no video in BTS photo from the hard disk, please upload it. I said, ok good good good. He himself called me and said, Brother, you can't do it, but I will create your twitter. He himself created it. Is it?

So basically, I don't know, it doesn't come very naturally to me. But will it not affect you? I don't know. I just don't know how to do that. I just feel like who cares where you are. And more than that, I don't know. I don't like sharing too much to the world. You should know about my film, right? You should know about my life and my personal life. You should know about my film, my life and my personal life.

You should know about my film or my endorsements. You should know if there is any work stuff. I don't know. I just feel I am not very good at it. But I am learning. You can't say that I can't do it. It won't work here. You have to learn. So I am taking baby steps.

In all honesty, I am taking baby steps in all honesty PR Vishal and taking baby steps You've learned how to write and make a film and act in it, but how to promote it you're taking baby steps Actually promotion topic I heard that very actor Including wallah social media in the post to put a leg will be in the agreement And he is what I heard I'm not sure how far is it true and a Good example name produce enemy the actor and. When I am taking your dates, I will decide the posting count on your social media

before the movie is shot.

I have heard that.

I don't think so. Because, I want to tell you this truth also. Since you are saying agreement, I have done Tillu and Tillu Square. Tillu is 10 crores budget, Tillu Square is 40 crores budget film.

Now I am doing with PMF, you know. Next is Badass. All these are 50-60 crores budget. Me and the producer don't have a single agreement.

Oh!

There is no single agreement between me and Vishwa sir. Even from Sitara? Me and Vamshi sir have no agreements whatsoever. Me and Sitara Entertainments have no agreements. Me and Vishwaments have no agreements me and Vishwa garu have no agreements and it's crores and crores of good it's 50 60 crores riding on me completely so the beautiful most beautiful thing about Hollywood is

Telugu film industry is the mutual faith that people have with each other stake But the beauty is that there is no agreement. You keep talking about PR, PR, team, etc. Even now you have mentioned PR multiple times. Do you believe the term called as media learning, media training? After getting a certain fame, how to speak, what not to speak, what to teach, I have heard about it.

Does it happen even in our industry? Definitely, right? When you are a known figure, you are a well-known person.

So who trains that?

I think PR agencies are there. You can hire people and they will train you what to say, let's speak in Telugu, they will train you what to say and what not to say. How to present yourself. I mean, you won't believe it.

How to sit. What color of clothes to wear. I mean, you can be negative if you wear black. You can be positive if you wear white. I heard so much detail. I mean, there are people who have done it.

I heard some too. That's why I'm asking. So, they go into a lot of detail. Like, you know, are you speaking English or not? How much to smile? How much not to smile? There are trainings in that level of depth. So, how much do you spend on your PR?

Every month?

Why do I ask about the amount? But I started spending. Again, it was never about money. I don't know where to spend, where not to spend, what is the correct spending, what is not the correct spending, what is wrong spending, I don't know. So, recently, my people have been sitting and helping me.

You are writing, you are editing, all that is going on well. You have to do this too, right? If you don't do it, how? All that is happening well. We should do this too. If not, then what? Now that's a job. That's very important for many people. Some people have

done magics with PR. Very true. It all depends upon the kind of promotion that you are doing. Distribution matters a lot. Actually it's very important.

When I was watching your recent interview, I got to see this. In Krishna and Leela, you shot a gorilla. You shot it without permissions and it was a small incident. We were shooting it in Ladakh. Krishna is a small film, we don't have much budget for that. We shot it in Hyderabad and many other locations.

But when we shot in Kashmir, in Ladakh, the Citizenship Act was passed. It was on the day we landed.

Oh.

So the scenario there was very sensitive. They weren't giving us permissions or anything.

Right.

And you get shocked when I say film shooting. How many of us do you think we are? How many of you are there to do the podcast?

There are 10 people.

We went as 3.

Aha.

I, the director and the cameraman.

Okay.

We went as 3. We went as 3 with the camera. I was carrying the lens bag, the tripod director was carrying it. DOP was holding the camera and other things. That's it. We went there. We had to shoot there and come back. The scenario was sensitive. So we put the camera.

Now, when we say cinema shooting, they say permission. Of course, the police will come. We were three. We went to shoot Gorilla. So we went and my friends put the camera. I said the dialogue. Imagine the police came from behind. So we went and set up the camera. I told the dialogue.

Imagine the police came from behind. They said this is Ladakh's famous market. So I changed the dialogue and shot a documentary or a tourist video. I shot it 3-4 times. I shot 4-5 takes.

How did you shoot the movie scene? You are in front of the camera and I am telling the dialogue. Loving two people is a very difficult thing. It's very difficult to love someone. Emotional scene? Yes, emotional scene. It's the climax of the movie.

It's very difficult to leave the person you love. I left both of them once. Everyone wants a love story. This is the famous market in Ladakh. You can find Pashmina silk here. This silk is exported to many places worldwide.

My father told me something, Malattu. So, it's a very radical process. Crazy. Generally, everyone has different script writing patterns. If I talk about your patterns, because I have heard some of them. Again, I should stand corrected.

You write the script, get involved in direction, or in acting, or maybe you get involved in different crafts, I heard that. But how far is it true? Because you have your own pattern, maybe you get involved in it. I'll tell you where it started. See, when I did Guntur Takis, Maavindha Gadhavinma, Krishnanazil, none of them came to me and told me the stories. Because who will come to struggling actors with a story? Why they don't come is also correct.

Because if you make a movie with someone, it will become a business. They will go to them, directors or producers. It's not a complaint that no one came to me. It's just an understanding of the business. So, I was forced to learn the craft. I mean, no one is giving me stories, no one is writing for me.

I want to become an actor. I had to learn writing and film making because of necessity. Of course, I'm really glad and I'm really happy for learning. But it was almost like I was thrown in a pool and told to learn swimming. So, I had to learn all those things. I had to learn craft, writing, making, lensing, shot making.

I didn't do all these because I wanted to. In fact, if you ask me, I'll say... ...I just wake up in the morning, get ready and go for a shoot... ...you'll see the production design, set, etc. ...I can just act and come back. But life was not like that for me. My life was not like that.

If it was like that, it would have been great, because I would have had time to do PR. So, my life was not like that. My life was, my journey was very different where, I got Nate's calls. I wrote, deleted, wrote, deleted, broke my laptop and realized I couldn't write. I wrote again, and again I made it.

I didn't like it. Like Krishnaneshwari, or Mami Intagadam, all the boys went to the life school. Not film school, but life school and got Nates Calls.

So now,

my perspective is, I went to a live school and learned how to make a film. So, now...

When I think about my perspective, what I feel when I say I'm involved in this or that... I just said, 50 crores is riding on me. Budget... I don't have an agreement or a signature with my producer. How much responsibility should I feel?

I should, right? 50 crores is riding on me. If I lose that, everyone will incur losses. So, if I am not involved, I have to make sure everything is on track. I have to understand whether everything is going well or not. And I have a self-confidence that I have delivered Tillu, I have delivered Tillu Square.

That's why the producers call me. People who want to make a film with me. If it's him, He would take care of everything That's how you are tuned Yes, because he would call me When I call you, you do a great podcast

I call you After I call you, why is he asking where you are putting the mic? Why is he asking which direction the sofa is? I shouldn't say all that I called you for your judgment. So now I was called just to act.

No producers will call me. Whenever I get the first advance, When I get a shake hand, Even when something happens, Every producer says one thing to me. Sir, you have to take care of it yourself.

They will say something to me. I feel like a big weight. I feel like a big weight. I feel like a responsibility. If you say out-of-load money, I feel like a big responsibility. Now, sometimes what happens is, you are here, everything is going on correctly.

Your team, you have a floor. If everyone does everything correctly, you come and sit and do the interview and leave. Only when it is not correct, you also go and talk. This is not like this, this is not like this, it should be like this, it should be like that. Here, it is not like this music, if we add something like that, it will look better for the scene we wrote.

See, from the moment a scene is written, from the moment a dialogue is written on paper, until it is visible on the screen tomorrow, 7 to 8 additions will happen to it. One, when this dialogue is said, where is the camera? Which lens is there? How close did you place it? Or is there movement? After explaining the dialogue, what is the color grading? Now, a very dramatic dialogue,

a very intense dialogue is written, we can't do comedy lighting for that, right? There will be a different kind of lighting for that. So, we have to take care of that. After going to the edit table, we have to see where it is shooting,

whether the music should be the sound design, so to go from here to the screen, 7 to 8 departments have to work properly, otherwise there is no connection between what is written here and what is there. Right. Right, so now is it a curse or a boon that I know all of this, I don't know. But I am saying I will always look at it like a boon only,

even though sometimes it seems very stressful to me, I always see it as a boon. I spoke to Rana the other day. I would like to go to the location and shoot as soon as I wake up in the morning. After a year, I would like to edit it and show it to him. I would like to have that surprise. I'll edit it and show it to you. Is it a good movie? Okay.

I like surprises. I was surprised and I understood the dialogue and shot. Rana took a long pause and said, Your colleagues are also feeling the same way about you.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Two or three. It's better for him to take the one he wrote. I understood that grass is always greener on the other side. But the water bill to keep the grass is much much higher. Keep the grass green is much higher. So, if I get involved, it is not involvement, it is my responsibility.

I have to make sure that things are going right. In the creative field, they can't take that, right? In the creative field, generally what we call is… So, it's a kind of ego? Yes, it's not ego. See, ego, I don't know about you, but ego is not a bad word.

Right.

Ego is not a bad word. Actually, we all think of ego as a bad thing. Ego is our sense of judgment. We think, I know this. That's what you think, right? How to do a podcast, is that what you think? No.

I know filmmaking, I can write, that's not ego. That's just my sense of judgment. Because of that judgment, people judge our reactions. But anyway, context is, people judge the reaction we give. That way I mean. But anyways, the context is people cannot take it that easily. It's not like that. People who take it, will take it.

If someone says, I would love it, I would like to do something better than the scene, I will say, come on, come with me. I will say, let's chill, let's go to the movie. Some people don't like it when someone else is involved. Because they think they have to do it. If you draw these lines beforehand, there won't be a problem.

If you draw them, the lines will get blurred. And then the conflict starts. In a film, if you start it once, you have to finish it till the end. Think of a software job, he can write the next thing. It's a job that has nothing to do with the face. It's not like a movie.

If we start now, we have to shoot until the day we die. We have to shoot until the movie is over. I'm not saying I won't do it in between. How do you feel about this? You said earlier that no one will say that the movie is bad. That's why... And how do you feel about this? You said earlier that no one will say a movie is bad.

So, in that sense... It's not like that. So, you can't say your movie is bad. Why can't I say? We'll know. You can't say it in the interview. You can't say it in the interview.

So, based on the previous movie's record and its result, will your promotional capacity or energy change? Do you feel that your promotional capacity or energy changes with the result? For example, you went to the promotionals before the previous movie. After coming out, the movie didn't work out. Will there be baggage when you promote the next movie? Definitely.

I'm saying I am an outsider. I don't have a star family, I am not a rich family. Support wise also, I don't have anyone. If we wake up everyday, we only have to take care. Along with that, I am only right hand. I am pretty involved in the process. So, there is a lot of work. So, we have to nail film to film. I don't have the luxury of giving flop movies.

I don't know if I have the strength to bear flop movies. Too deep? No, not really. Because, I've faced reactions and comments from the industry after Jack. I've heard both good and bad. Big directors called me and said, don't worry, nothing will happen. Many people called me.

Similarly, there are many comments from the outside world. What's wrong with people like me, who come from outside? Our cinema will either save us or leave us. So, I don't have the luxury of giving a flop film. So, if a flop is made, it will have a lot of effects. It will have financial effects, mentally first effects,

confidence shakes. It will take time to understand what went wrong, what you shouldn't do. When we understand all that and promote the next film, when we are successful, we will be very different. In terms of our state of mind, energy and the way we talk.

When we are in failure, we have confidence in the final product. But we also have a fear. Because we don't get inbuilt fans or people who come from outside. After delivering 6-7 films consistently, we will be able to create it. So, definitely to answer your question, there will be a baggage. When you promote, there will be an emotional baggage.

But, generally, what I observed is that you take it a lot on your shoulders while promoting. It won't be easy going and you won't be able to say what you want to say. You leave it and then speak out on business. Absolutely. At that time, if the triggers are it, it's not easy going. You have to believe it and then speak out. Absolutely.

That's when the triggers are good.

I've been talking to you for 1.5 hours now and I haven't had a single second of trigger. When I'm talking to you. There will be certain interviews, they're designed to trigger you. Actually, I wanted to ask you about that. You know the information and you've observed it. I have seen in the press meets, they ask disturbing questions.

They know that the media reputation is getting ruined. I have heard about your story, Puttumachal. That's very weird. Naturally, why do you have to go back to back? An anchor or a journalist... ...does that.

But still, actors go there, get the interviews done... ...and when it comes out, it goes viral. He gets scolded, they get scolded, and that's it. Is it happening as a pattern? I mean, if you read it, do you feel like they're doing it on purpose? I don't know enough about how people think outside.

I don't have enough knowledge about what's happening. But... I mean, see... To create sensationalism, first... When we talk about sensationalism,

we cut a video saying, everyone will watch it. What's that? Right? If I say something to you now, or if you say something to me, everyone will click it.

There are many people who give you a glass list. They give you a glass list. In interviews. I went to an interview with my friend. He is a guest. So, the guy who interviewed me,

I asked him, is it okay? Are you ready? To throw glasses at me? Because, for the trailer cut, he is asking a disturbing question. Did this happen? I mean, he is not genuinely angry.

He planned to throw glasses at me. I am not dumb enough to not know that certain things exist. But, he is asking me to throw glasses at him. Bottles.

Plastic bottles. Bottles are there, yeah. There are plastic bottles, right? If you break those bottles...

Oh, my God!

Yeah, yeah, please go ahead.

I never planned anything around me. But, what I mean is... For sensationalism, we... Firstly, I've learned, we should not get triggered.

Is it so easy?

It's not. Especially when you're an emotional person, it's not. It's like, generally speaking, if you ask me why I'm involved in this, I've explained it to you. What's my state of mind? I'm always like that. If you ask me, what's my answer? I'll also feel like I'm always ready to give. If you ask me what's my relationship with you,

I'll feel like I'm not interested. It depends on what you ask. But as an actor, even if you ask me what's my relationship with you, you have to kill yourself and answer, because I have a movie on your name.

There's a movie called Riding on your name. You have to kill yourself and answer. Very well. Because, again, there too, there is a 50 crore movie writing on your name. If you say something wrong here, it will have an effect on the movie.

Okay?

So, at all points of time, you have to learn how to be without getting triggered. I was expecting you to say, I'm saying something wrong and my brand image is getting ruined. You're talking about the product, right? That's great. I was expecting you to say that my brand image will be ruined if I say something wrong.

You are talking about the product, right? That's great.

My product is my brand image. This is my film. And for actors and outsiders who come from outside, there are no multiple chances. When you give, you have to utilize it correctly and when God gives you the opportunity, we should take it carefully. So, first, we should understand our weakness and strength. Not like others, we should understand our beat. No matter what you do, you have to understand where you come from. I don't believe in limitations.

There are no limitations for anyone here. In fact, a movie is a badass movie. A movie is a badass movie where anyone can come from anywhere and become something. But having said that, we should keep in mind our behavior, process and the way we work. We should always know where we came from.

Very true. There's a line, right? Don't let a bad day remind you about your mistakes. to I even tell that, don't even let a good day spoil your character. You'll just keep on writing the same story over and over again. That's not how it should be. Don't make a bad day that you forgot or made a mistake. Even if we forget, God will remind us.

You keep talking about God a lot. I did an interview with you yesterday.

Yeah.

I can hear a contrast in the way you speak. God means I'm not someone... I'm not very religious. I don't go daily and sit and do pooja. When I wear a garland, I definitely follow the protocol. I wore it twice in between. How was the experience? I can't say that bro. You have to feel it. I took it as Andhra Swamiji Deeksha five times.

That's a different experience altogether. I'm sure you must have experienced something like that only. You will meet yourself. You will know certain things about yourself. It's an interesting experience. I feel there is a reason for the kind of design

in the period of Mala Deeksha. Why should we stay away from everything? It's designed to actually introduce us to ourselves. Correct, correct. I feel when we are in Mala, there are some basic rules. Yes.

Non-vegetarian, cigarettes, alcohol should be avoided. Bachelorhood should be maintained. Spirit and action should Stay away from comforts. Stay away from comforts. What I feel is, I understood this after doing it 2 times, that all these 4-5 things that we mentioned,

all these are the things that give dopamine hit. Suddenly, conscious detox. Yes, suddenly, we have to get rid of it., suddenly, we have to cut it. That's why it is called 21 days. The first basic thing.

21 days is for habit formation. For habit formation, for dopamine reset. Our happiness should not come from this or that or from anything else. It should be created here. For that, 21 days reset, I feel there are those rules.

So, I understood that in taking a deeksha or putting a garland the devotion and discipline is the same. You have to sleep on the floor, your bones will become strong. I understood that. That's why they made this rule. Actually, I remember it clearly.

My grandmother told me not to use a comb. I was adamant when I of a rule is this? God said not to use a comb. I was very adamant when I first took the wig. Later I understood, generally, there is no need for small requirements

for your body. You just came to this world, right? So that way, like you said, there is a reason for each and every thing. There is a scientific backing for everything. If you do good, you'll see good in everything. I understood that there's a discipline along with devotion.

So, God is... God can be seen to us. If we ask Him to move a little, He'll come.

He'll come in some form.

He'll come in some form. You know, He can be seen. Even if He's this big, He'll stop us. It'll come in an unknown form. We can't even expect what will happen to us. God will make a stop in that form.

Whoever it is. So, I started believing in that.

And, generally, after seeing a success, they keep getting scripts, or a movie story, or a line. I don't get this podcast, I'll get at least 30-40 requests, mails or letters.

Give me a chance to talk to Sidhu. Or when I did it with Vishwak, or with Ran, they keep asking me to talk. So, by attempting like this, some people can't reach you. Do you have that fear, I'm missing some script which is just outside my door?

Or I'm missing the script waiting outside my gate? Not really. Because, what I believe is that what you've written, it will come to you.

Okay.

Even if you send it saying no, it will come to you in a form that you accept.

Hmm.

If you've written it, no one can stop you.

Okay?

If you have written it to be good, no one can stop you. That's my belief system. But having said that, if you leave it to the word of mouth, it won't work. We have to create a window for it to come to us. I don't get scared like that.

Saying that we might not get great scripts. Because... I don't get scared of great scripts. Because I feel I don't have that luck. I feel I don't have the luck to get a great script. Does it test you? Luck favors a lot of things. I feel I don't have luck.

I don't say I don't have good luck. I don't have luck. And when I say I don't have luck, I don't mean good luck. I feel like I don't have bad luck either. Because, it's okay if you have two sides to a coin. You can get a great script and come to me with that. I don't have good luck.

But, I can write my own story. So, I don't have bad luck.

Good. Yeah.

Right. Well said. But what I understood is that I have to work my ass off. I have to create something for myself and I have to do it myself. And it's again very good that I'm aware about this. But having said that, if we want to get good scripts, definitely there's a window, there's a manager,

there's an entire ecosystem which functions only for that. My email ID is out on my social media. So everyone can send their material to me. There are people, there's a team who handle it. If anything interesting, it will come to my notice. Since each of you have your own editing style or writing style, you edited your own film also, right? Yes, I edited both Krishna Nesli and Magintha Kadavir.

While editing, I was watching Sandeep Reddy's interview and after listening to his editing style, I wanted to understand how people's style is. I wanted to know that because generally we shoot scenes that are very interesting. After the shoot, when you sit on the editing table, you may not feel like putting the scene, or it may not be set.

That shelving process, what do you think?

It hurts a lot. How do you think about the shelving process? It hurts a lot. How do you take a decision? I take it very detached. The film we shot in Tillu Square, compiled by ASTEES, is 4 hours 30 minutes long.

The film is 4 hours 30 minutes long. The run time in the theatre was 1 hour 57 minutes. 2 hours? 2 and a half hours. It's a very painful process. We've written it, acted on it,

we've thought it was a good scene, there's an attachment to the dialogue. But it's inevitable. Oh no! That's it. Do you know how much it's going to come? At least for a film like Tillu and Tillu Square, we can't stop it.

There's a flow to the character. Tillu and Tillu Square films work when Tillu is talking. He should be talking consistently. He's the one in the film, right? Yes, he is. And if he says something like that, it's not possible to talk. There should be a logic, a joke and a humor.

So, we never stop the Tillu character. We cut and tell the Tillu character. I myself cut and tell him. I tell him all the dialogues I have to and when I get the the script. So, I was saying that. There are a lot of jokes. There's a joke about gunapam in Part 1. It's not on the paper. We didn't write it.

It didn't happen. After putting the camera there, when I turned around, I said, bring that gunapam. I remembered a dialogue I used to say when I was a kid. I remembered it and said it immediately.

Everyone laughed. We went home. Producer Vamsi called Vimal and said, why didn't you close the dialogue? He would have asked Vimal 10 times. He said,

he is a hero, I will close it if I know what he's going to say, I'll close the show. We don't know anything. He'll say something, we'll watch. He's written so much, he'll talk so much. We'll watch what he says.

Then ask him what he'll say before he goes. He doesn't know what the problem was. I didn't know either. I felt a certain spontaneity when I went there. My strength is my spontaneity. I would say something from that spontaneity.

There are many such jokes in movies. So I had to make that movie. But coming back to the point, it is painful to edit everything you write. But being detached? I got it.

When I'm sitting on the edit table, I'm looking at myself, I'm looking at my performance and I'm getting emotional. If I do this, it will be in the air. So, I think it's a blessing

that I'm sitting on the edit table from the beginning and definitely I address myself as Wadu. I got it's a blessing that I sat on the edit table from the beginning and definitely I will address him. I got it. Why is he talking like that? Why is he turning like that? Why is he behaving like a hero? Remove it. I have to do what I have to do. But even if I was in unnecessary places, I would have done this scene well. I got it. I got it luckily. It didn't take much training. I got it luckily. Being able to see things objectively.

Nice.

What was the costliest thing? First you spent money on it, then you bought it for free.

I never felt that way.

Tell the truth.

I'm telling the truth. I don't buy anything that I want.

What's the costliest thing?

Actually, in that matter, my hand is a little big. Okay. If someone asks for something, I buy it. What's the costliest thing? Actually, in that matter, my hand is a little big. If someone asks for it, I'll buy it. How would the pattern be? Will you wait for a few days? The pattern would be, Mahendra will leave home to buy a car, and I'll come back with a sport.

That's how it would be. The cost of that and this would's 8-9 times the cost. Even in my house, it's not raining. How did it change so much? If you have a heart for something, it's not a big deal. You don't regret it?

No, I don't regret it.

Bro, people use one-liners a lot. Like, mapping in the gaps. There are things like that.

What is gap mapping?

It's like the map in the gap.

I've heard about it. I use it normally. I got inspired by your friend. How did you get inspired by the Malkazhagiri Boys?

We get information from multiple places. Generally, when we sit and talk, we use a certain phrase. So, when we use it, we get a feeling. We laugh and laugh. We take that into the film. We also write a few lines.

Actually, you know your title, right? We have a friend in the US, Koushik. He's a very good speaker. He says, ''Telusu ga''. He is in the US now. He is my NRI friend. He is very open-minded. He says, He is open-minded to learn. His slang is a bit different. So, I like the title. Actually, he uses the phrase, you know, right?

You know how the movie will be, right? You know how the movie will be. You get that a lot.

Do you write any scenes?

Do you find it to write a scene?

There are some scenes. When we write at the table level, we feel excited and amazed. But when we start to write the dialogue at the location, we don't get the feeling. The impact is not created there.

Then we get tensed. We think, we heard that scene that night. ...then you get a bit tense. You wonder what's going on. You hear it all the time when you write the scene. You wonder what's going on in the location. You don't know anything. In Tillu's film, we have a rule of thumb.

We are only 3 or 4 people when we write. When we perform at the location, there are 100 people around. We understand that the scene and see if they are laughing or not. If they laugh, it's like they are laughing. In some scenes, when I think it's a hilarious scene, and they are silent, there is no sound in the location, I get scared.

So, actually, the answer to the question I asked earlier is sometimes it's hard to write, sometimes it's hard to perform. There are two. Generally, you fix the script, story and situations. Do you plan the economy for each situation? You can understand it by the location.

Are there any blasts after you go there? There are many. We think it's a 2-day shoot. It can be 6 days. So, if you think it's a 2- 2 days, definitely 6 days is not enough. That's how it happens.

But luckily, in banners like Sitar and PMF, the banners I worked on, there is a lot of free hand. They don't question me at all. They don't ask. So, there is no tension for escalation?

They don't ask anything. That's what I'm saying this because when we were talking earlier, I was saying that there is no agreement. The level of trust is that the story is just 10 minutes long. When I come to the story, I don't ask what changes I have made, how many changes have happened, whether they are there or not, whether the footage that I shot for 4 days is wasted. I don't even ask that question.

Then we have more responsibility. So you be very careful with everything that you're doing. Right, right. A 50 crore movie, if there's no agreement, just purely based on our brain, you have to be responsible, right?

Hence you tend to involve and make sure everything is correct.

You said that you've been in DJ2L for 12 years. Do you have any self-doubts, suggestions, or failures? Have you ever felt like going somewhere else?

No, I haven't.

You are saying it very bluntly. Bluntly means, I have a strong belief in myself that that there is no question about it. I won't leave it until I achieve it. I have felt it many times. I never felt like going into another field. I never thought it would work out.

I never thought I would remain a failure. People tell us stories. They say, he went to real estate or lost their homes. I thought that people like us would talk about it after 10 years. I thought that people like us would talk about it after 10 years. Or else, they would say that they lost their jobs and are now kids.

This is our beat. I thought that we would also become a story. I thought that I will be a warning. If someone else goes to the cinema, I will be like that. So I thought I will become that warning. But my stubbornness is also my stubbornness.

I won't leave it. So, for that and for this, it's just a blessing that hard work paid off and today we are doing well. Touchwood.

Touchwood.

Anything else?

What's your favorite dialogue from Tillu and Tillu Square?

You're asking a tough question, Radhika. There are a lot of things in it. My favorite dialogue... There are 2-3 dialogues in part 1. One guy comes and shows a video of him killing a dead body. He says, I need money.

He says, how much? He says, 25 lakhs.

I say, give me.

He gives me and releases me from this scam. He says, I don't even know which body I am wearing.

You don't know, that's how it is with us.

I am wearing one. I don't know his name. I don't wear one, but I know he is Rohitha. In part 2, he said I am paying Rs.10,000 for a salary of Rs.12,000.

Right, right.

There is another terrific dialogue in ThILLU, in the square. We shot it in the edit. It's about Radhika, the old...

She's back in the house.

Neha, she comes. When she comes, she asks someone to kill her. You can kill her, right, TILLU? Otherwise, she'll open the case again and drag us to the streets. My marriage will be stopped again. It will be like that. Before that, he is a bad guy.

He will say, why don't you kill him? When she compares, there is a big difference between killing someone and stopping your marriage. He will say, Radhika, do you know what you are saying? I am sitting on the road like a mad person crying like a mad person

and you're saying KFC has become ketchup. Is there a connection or what? I said, bro, that's too much. Is it? Too much is too much. He finally agrees.

If an ex-girlfriend comes, he'll die. Right, of course. He agrees. She says, of course. He'll agree. If he agrees, she'll say, Thank you. What thank you?

What is this? What is this? What is this thank you? You got me killed last time. This time, You got me killed.

If you say it twice, I'll be the only one who gets killed. There's a lot like that in this movie. I could have told you. I told you another 2 hours. I mean, how would it be if you cut it so easily? There's a beat. You have to think whether this dialogue will make you laugh or not.

If you have a doubt, you have to remove it. You have to laugh immediately.

Okay.

Otherwise... Is it you or anyone else with you? Editor, editor of course. Naveen is there. Yes, Naveen. So, he will decide. He will say, I don't think this is relevant, this is not't, we will have more attachment to it.

If we say that the dialogue is crazy, we won't be able to make a decision. No matter how much we love the film, if it is not making sense to the film, it has to go out. We have to maintain that detachment.

Before character preparation, even Jackie Manilal said that he is reading a book. Cowboys and... Yeah, Cowboys. Anything. He reads a character. It's complicated. I sit with the boys in front of the DJT. For the energy.

I'll ask him now. Boys are always... weekly once or 15-20 days, if the boys don't gather, the energy is replenished. In the brain and body. Once in a week, energy is replenished. Whether in the brain or the body.

Right. If it's once in a week or two, all the boys sit together.

What happens?

What else? When all the boys sit together, there are three items on the table. There are no more three.

Hahaha.

There are only cashew nuts. With water, there are a few more. Hahaha. But it's more about energy. I make sure that at least

15 days, I want to have only boys. Only boys. Only boys. It can be Ravikanth, or whoever my friends are. Only boys.

I want to have boys and pull an all-nighter. Only boys boys are good soon a couple of the nose look matter of cassara a colonnade or pull the alley boys more tongue-twisting in the country I will tell them into an into an intro name you know it travel and the name of the name in your general name on a nine to a wisdom knock knock nine to a knock I like to travel I love to taste new food is an opportunity to make a new kind of a little bit of a tip to turn on a I don't have that much freedom. I mean, I keep saying this, but many people force me to do it.

Anyways, I'll finish the boys thing. Boys, boys, every 15 days, I definitely make sure we come, we sit, we chill. We play PlayStation for a while, we rag, we joke. Everyone feels like a fool, right? When I sit with boys, they make us sit down. When I sit with my friends, they treat me like a hero.

They ask me to bring soda. We need that a lot. Otherwise, wherever we go, we feel like, Sir, sir, sir is here. We feel like we are a big star. Sometimes.

You have to be where you have to be. But, you have to be normal. I feel like I'm the star. Sometimes. It should be there, but it's not normal. If you're a star at home, you're a national star. If you're a star at home, I feel it's problematic.

So, boys, your question will be answered.

Got it?

Yes.

So, about travel, I feel that social media is fooling people about travel a lot. Because they filter it out. When we go there, there is no filter. So, they will say, what is this place? It's heaven. There is no such lane there. There are people, garbage. Even after seeing such a location, I was like, What the hell is this place?

A voice comes from behind, It's heaven. He shot like this. Hey, there is a place like this. I have to go there. The torture starts near the airport.

Now, in that place, It is considered It's a big airport in the world. I couldn't do it. It was so crowded and it was so affordable to travel. Everyone is able to. My father is a retired government employee. My mother is an all India retired government employee, Mother All India Radio retired government employee. We have a facility called LTT. Every 12 years or 1 year, a travel is sponsored by the government. When we board the flight, from lower middle class to upper middle class, we have a transition.

When we are in the lower to middle, the government used to give yearly tickets. Then we used to go to the airport and wait for the flight. They used to tell us not to ask anything until they give us the tickets. That was an experience. In the past, we used to go to the cinema theatre to have a cold drink. The most exciting thing for me was...

...to have a glass bottle of ice cream in the cinema theatre. The guy who comes with a tring tring sound. We used to sit and have a drink. We were afraid to ask for more. Because we used to discuss about what's in the middle class. So, things were more exciting back then than now.

Now, I'm a 70 year old guy. I'm enjoying so much that he won't come to see me. I'm enjoying my life here. Look at my life, it's so good. You guys are wasting your lives. What's that? You guys don't understand, you have to travel.

Travel has a sanity. Travel has a beauty. We go to a travel, sit there and give time to think about us. Travel. All that is great. But, I don't know something about it has gotten corrupted now.

Now, you see how much I travel. It's more than you going and traveling and enjoying yourself. And, generally, many people try to rub it on me. You should try new food. You should try new cuisine. You should try new cuisine. Why should I eat everything?

Same for me.

I don't have any. I like this. I eat this. I like idli. I eat dosa, biryani, roti, my mom's halwa fry, sambar.

I eat all that. They say I eat this. Avocado. I don't understand why they say, eat this, eat that, avocado, etc. If you don't eat that, you don't have a culture, you don't have a style. They create a feeling like that.

They create a lot of FOMO in everything. Food has also become socialized. Food has also become very socialized. I have eaten a lot of food, I like vanilla ice cream, I eat that. Or I like chocolate ice cream. I eat it when I feel like it. I like chocolate brownie.

Some guy makes ice cream and gives it to someone. We don't understand. Ice cream should be cold. I feel like someone is making ice cream. He is looking at me like this because I don't know how to eat. I go to a restaurant, pay money going to pay, and I'm going to feel insulted? How stupid is that?

So, for me, ice cream should be cold. Okay?

Right.

When it's not like that, I don't understand. I don't understand, I'm not an Indian. So, I can't force myself to try new food. I can only listen to what I like. Now, Chinese is a different beat for us. We have a place called Sai Palace,

or Dragon Fried Rice Centre. We have a red coloured box. A guy with a lot of sweat will be there. He'll be there, sweating a lot. That's our beat when we were kids. We used to eat that, B kid. Bhandi food.

Now it's Sushi. I don't want to eat sushi. I don't understand. I don't understand. I think now

vegetarian sushi is popular. Sushi was raw fish and rice. I don't know. I don't even go near it. I don't understand. Sushi was what? Raw fish and rice? Wow! I would have been a fish with a rotten mouth. I wouldn't have even gone near it. I don't understand that.

And it's very tough. I'm very fussy about food. But having said that, I eat the items I know everyday. I don't have a problem with that. I eat idli every morning. I don't have a problem with that. I eat biryani three times a day. I don't have any problem with that. But, this travel, try new food...

Where?

We do that. But, it's like we're doing it on the top. There are no places like what I showed on Instagram. If you look there, you'll be like, why is this here? It's all dirty.

So, yeah.

You said non-vegan, right? I was just a comedy. I thought you were a non-vegan. I just said it once. I said the concept was good. I liked it when a topic came up.

Okay.

Next question.

What is happiness according to you?

It's to be happy. If you're happy when you have 10 rupees, you can't be happy when you have 1 crore. Happiness is finding happiness is the biggest lie. If you have to find it, there is a problem. It has to be inside you. And happiness is being happy.

True.

We saw the numbers of movies that came out last year. True. Okay. Theatrical. Theatrical. Maybe, I mean, if we put aside all the dubbed movies, in that, as far as I know, personally, I and my team, some of us, we remember up to 20 movies. I watched a movie,

and I forgot some of the movies I watched. So, when such a movie, when all the numbers of movies are coming, how to stand out from that, when we think about all that, Let's talk about this movie. Why should a person follow this content? When so many different contents are coming out, web series, short movies,

these days, one minute short stories are also coming out. Are you watching those?

Correct. Correct.

And in different languages, old movies, some people have even left the stage of watching Netflix.

Yes.

And too many distractions, right? Whether you open Instagram or YouTube.

In this, how should a movie play a role? If we talk about your movie, why should a person watch this movie? You are correct. There's a lot of content out there. And in all formats. From 30 second reels to 3 hour films, everything is available.

So, why should we watch this content? First of all, there's a target audience for any film. When you shoot a love story, there is youth. If you shoot a mature love story, there is family involved. It depends on the bit of mass characterization. So, coming to the film, Telsu Kadha,

why should people watch this film? See, first of all, I'm very confident about that film. And I don't have any intentions to make it viral or to watch it with 10 people like I did. We've made a very good film. I know that. I'm very confident about it.

And it is healthy confidence that I have about the film. Having said that, no one can say whether the film will hit or flop. The biggest of the trade pundits cannot predict what will happen to a film. But having said that, we can say whether we have made a good film or not. Thilsukka Thais is a very good film. And why should people watch?

Why should people watch Th Every few years, we get some films. Because that particular film's genre is redefined. It changes the shape. You know, right? Love stories are like that.

If I'm blessed enough or if I'm... Again, touch wood. for the stories. If I am blessed enough or if I am right in my prediction or analysis or whatever. We will have an idea on the film when it works. You know what it is right? Characterization more than anything else. The situation is very unique. We have not shown anything in the trailer or anything. ...characterization more than anything else. The situation is very unique.

We didn't show it in the trailer. But when it comes to the theatre, there is a surprise. This is a new situation. Because I believe in my instinct. When Neerja told me the story point... ...this is the conflict of the story...

...he is a first-timer director. When I said that, He is a first timer director. He has never worked as a casting director for any film. He has no writing experience. He has nothing. But the next second I told him I am doing this film.

That point was so exciting for me. When he said that. Then obviously we sat down. She wrote a soft story first. Then she said I wrote it a bit soft, Sidhu. Then obviously, we sat down and she wrote a soft story first. Then she said, I wrote it a bit softly, Siddhu, because I don't know you. I wrote it before Tillu came.

Idea wise.

But obviously, now you have an image and you have to cater to it. Let's sit down and... You know, how to make it more energetic around it or how to make it stronger, so that it fits your image. We made a lot of changes to make it more strong and fit your image. But the core point is what Neerja said. And that was very exciting. So every few years a character comes and redefines some things.

Love story wise or this or that. For example, we have Tillu who redefined comedy, Telangana slang. In easy going languages. Yes, it wentand in dialogues. Yes, it went a bit far in the dialogues. Similarly, Varun's character...

...he is a boy. He... ...he redefines love in some ways... ...maybe it shouldn't be said before the release... ...it might be wrong... ...we shouldn't use in a new way.

He never teaches anything. But when we see him, we feel like we should be able to see love in a new way. Whether it is Srinidhi's character or Rashi's character or Harsha's character, it is very personal. When you see Harsha, you will see only your best friend. You will not see anyone else.

There is a best friend, right? When we are in love, we can't see clearly. But someone else can. That's why I ask. He is more excited.

I don't know about his excitement. But he sees what we see. He says, that's a different matter. He sees what we see. We don't see. He might have a chance, but we don't.

If my luck is good, I'll definitely sit in a love story. We want to see a love story every 5 years. There are chances. If my luck is good, I'll definitely sit in a love story. You told me, right? He wants a classic, not a hit. All the very best. I'm hoping so. If I do, someone will write, this guy has no other option but to do this. I will like that.

It's okay, chill bro. It's not like that. It's his opinion. Someone else will write, bro, I said hit, you have to hit. You will take personalised, right?

I will take that and like that. It's his opinion. I am not going to take everything emotionally. I can't. I can't afford to. And see the basic inception level. I have a problem with that. So, it's funny to tweet. You're an ex, right? And there's a name, a photo, a cell phone.

That's all okay. I was doing a journalist podcast recently. In that podcast, I talked about NTR, CBN, Vyasal, KC,

all the small instances. If I talk about Vyasal, the fans of Vyas sir, fans of him come and build a cast. If we talk about CBN, fans of them come and build a cast. I have seen it and I feel like

I have said it, don't tweet it. It has been built there. I think against anyone, but that's how it is actually being. And, generally in lifestyle, after a success, lifestyle changes a lot.

As the process changes, majorly in your industry, adaptations are more. Generally, you be first manager in your professional circle, then first internal staff, and so on. How was that shift of this adaptations? New ones, from team building to protocols, maintaining gap, there are such things, right? Naturally from team building to protocols, maintaining gaps,

naturally, you have to follow up. Yeah, you have to preserve your energy and space. So, it will be added according to the requirement. Earlier,

there was no one who used to call us and ask us to make a film. Right. There was no one who used to answer our calls. make a film. There is no one to pick up our phone. We four people are considered as nobodies. We start a project together.

We make all the calls. After that, 10 people call us after a film hits. We cannot talk directly to everyone. Then a manager comes. We go to the airport and take photos. A bodyguard.

So, all these things add up according to the need and necessity. What was the weirdest adaption that you had to undergo? I mean, it's necessary but you have a lot of it. I don't think anything is that weird. Anything tough? People management is tough. Really? Yeah.

We have 8-9 people around us and we are shooting. But again, cinema beauty is that. There are 200 people in a location. There is always a chaotic movie location. Most chaos and most chaos. In BTS, it is glorified. Glorified. But when you work inside. There is a situation. But, there has an unspoken sync too. Everyone is in sync.

I went once actually. I saw the same shoot and BTS too. The same day. I had the same feeling. BTS was too beautiful. Properly, the structure was going on.

I spent 6 hours there. My friend got some audition requirement. After going there, I saw how it was there. BTS was coming out. It was so good. He got some audition requirement. After going there, I saw how it was there and outside the BTS. It was so good.

But as you said, it was chaotic. It was chaotic, but everyone was in sync. There was some unspoken communication going on. And what is your opinion on the creative block? It is... I mean, generally, how do you deal with it?

True, it exists. Basically, the creative block is...

when you're exhausted or when you don't have experiences. Can we do this for 24 hours maximum? If we push it for 48 hours,

It's not asking us to sleep. It's asking us to make it sleep is the block. Hmm.

I don't have the strength to think. It's just telling me to rest for a while.

Hmm.

In fact, recently I observed that zoning out is a new friend of mine. Even if I'm in a hurry, if I see a block, I'll just zone and go far away. He'll look at the wall or just sit silently. People will wonder what happened to him. At such times, my brain works a little sharp. It's a kind of reset for me. What do you do for such shifts?

At present, I don't need a break. I'm going on with my work. I'm working on 3-4 projects simultaneously. Oh nice. How do you manage your schedules? Because the characters are like dogs. How do you get into that? Is it easy or tough?

It's not tough. It's easy actually. Because we decide how the character should be. And then it excites us about the character. Now we know about theun and his character. I was excited about his reaction to everything. It's nice the way you are explaining him. Like you said earlier.

I was excited about his reactions. You will see that he is a very good character. I feel that he is a 360 degree shift from Tillu. He is not low in energy. He was subtle in the trailer. But the trailer had a little subtleness. It was subtle. That's why, brother.

Tillu is so energetic. Energy is first in the screen presence. Not just shouting loudly. Energy is in the screen presence. So the character has a very strong screen presence. No one can shake that character.

In a love story, Love Triangle and Family Drama, there are many genres like love triangle and family drama. But in the whole movie, Varun's character stands out. So, coming back to your question, when we get excited about a character, now he will excite the bad-ass character in a different way. His way of talking and the situations he sees are different.

How we manage to travel with 2-3 characters at a time is... ...we get excited about the character and it gets caught.

We don't have to do anything.

Because he excites us.

So, I think that's how we manage. In a few minutes we start thinking like Varun Because he excites us We hear stories right? After doing a big project They go out for a few days They come back after a set time They change their facial looks I have a doubt on how they work simultaneously

Everyone's process is theirs I was wondering how you guys work so simultaneously. Writing is a different ball game. Acting is a different ball game. Everyone has their own process.

In general, when you are running a narrative in the media, when you are in a bond with the actors, or when you are collaborating, you bring the cast in between. Have you heard about those? Have you heard about them?

What do you feel about those?

Actually, people write it. about those? What do you feel about those? Rashid will write bro, if you take care of everything, you will get caught first. Self preservation is very important. If you have an emotional reaction towards everything that's happening around you, then you are the most easiest to manipulate or break. So I will see Rashid, I will laugh. I will laugh if I like gossip too. Sometimes I write and watch and laugh. I also like gossip and laugh. Sometimes I feel like I wrote something stupid. I mean, even if I lie, I should be able to talk.

I don't give attention to what I write because I don't know what is right or wrong. I feel like I should laugh when I write. When it comes to promotion, I few days ago, they made a video saying that they'll launch it at 11.11. They said it's a teaser. Okay, that's it.

They have their own belief system.

Okay.

When I didn't understand,

I didn't believe it. A little bit. I said it a few days ago, when it came to promotion.

About this movie?

About this movie. 11.11, 11th day, 11-11. We wanted to launch it in a teaser. But what would you do if you got 11 likes?

Poor guy! You are so pessimistic.

It's not pessimistic, it's just my take on life.

What answer did you give to that?

I mean, it's not like releasing it at 11. See, obviously I'm saying it for fun only.

Right, right.

But when it comes to promotion, my state of mind is that.

Hmm.

My film is going to be good. People will say this.

Of course.

I can't say it's not good. But I have to learn to talk beyond this barrier. About promoting the film, about doing something.

Right. Also, generally, not your movies, not the characters you write, is there any character that you can never forget? I mean, characterisation. Because you are a writer, or because you are in that segment, I am asking.

The way you see at a character, look at a character is different. The way you perceive the character. So, I can't forget this characterization. Can you decode any character? If possible, in Telugu.

I'm thinking about Telugu. I like Bunny a lot in Allavai Kuntapuram. Oh!

Yeah, yeah.

Especially, because... Trikram wrote a little and Bunny performed a little too. I told him when I spoke to him. After he said, this character behaves, I saw that the character was 4 steps ahead of Anna. I asked him if he would tell Tabu that he is his son.

He said, no, I won't tell him and suddenly collapse the world. He said, she is my daughter after all. He is thinking about that. How can I do that to her and that boy? I liked the Bunny character. There is an interesting balance in the character.

Pushpa, of course, I believed in her. If she puts her left foot on my right foot, how is it bothering you? And how is it disrespectful to you? There are many such moments in Pushpa.

Apart from the action and all of that, visual spectacle, all of that is great. But, the small nuances in the character, like holding a banyan, that was a character that I really liked.

They have been writing the character since childhood, right? This is how they behave at this kind of odd situations. There is a lot of backstory for writers. It is debatable how much we show in the movie. But the backstory tells us how the character should behave in any scene. Once a person is cheated, he talks differently. The person who is not cheated, still speaks positively and optimistically.

Right.

Got it.

Generally, Digital is one and two. If the audience doesn't like the movie, a perception is created about you. If the movie is like this, you can say it's a bit aggressive, or some people say it's a bit bold, or it's a bit aggressive... ...or a bit bold, or a bit more intimate.

You get that perception, right? I'm sure you've seen it in the comments. It's because of your movie.

You can't change it, and neither can they. What I've realised and learnt is... see this kind of a perception. I'm not sure if he'll be there. You know? When I go out, everyone expects me to be a good guy. But when I come here, I feel like I'm making everyone laugh. That's it.

Even if I go out, people think I'm a good joker. But that's not true. You know, I'm not sure if I'll I might be talking to my friends when I'm sitting. I might be talking when I'm comfortable.

But I came here with a joke.

Right.

Or else, it's perceived in the eyes of girls and women. Now... We can't go around killing people just because we made a gangster film. Or else, we can't sit and do the same thing as a drug addict. This is just kill everyone. If a drug addict plays a role, he can't just sit and do the same. This is just a role. In the movies, there are bold and intimate scenes.

In real life, he would be doing the same. It's a very funny thing that I've learnt. People watch it like that. But that's've learnt. Oh, they watch like this.

But that's not true. It's just a film.

It's just a character.

At the end of the day, it was designed for entertainment.

Because they don't know what else is happening on the set. Or how much we are struggling for that. When we do fight scenes, sometimes the heroes get hurt. No one has ever asked me, did you really get hurt? No one has ever asked me, did you really hit the wall? No one has ever asked me, did you really kiss the wall? No one will ever ask you if you have really used it or if you have really been hurt.

Or if you have really been hit on the head in that scene. No one will ask you.

So I have learnt.

This is a realization. We learn something new everyday. Some people get carried away by the images. That's what I wanted to ask you.

True.

They relate the off screen and on screen images to the off screen. That's what I wanted to ask you. True, true though. They relate the off-screen and on-screen image to the off-screen. After making a character like Tillu, if we think about creating a new impact, we need a strong character. After making Badass, did you get that shift?

Badass is something else bro.

I mean in the viewer's perspective.

In the viewer's perspective, it is shocking. It is safe to say that Badass is going to be the most darkest film of Telugu cinema. But very commercial. As soon as I say dark, I feel like someone is playing with my enjoyment.

What is that perception? who is smoking a joint.

What is that perception? It's not like that.

I thought you were like that.

It's not like that. I know that perspective. That's why I'm trying to explain that. If he's not there, he'll say that he's lost his job and he'll sit there looking at the sky. It's not like that. It is dark but the rage level is high. The character, the content, the movie, it will shock you.

Badass will shock you. When is it going to come? Ravikanth Pirepu, the way he is looking at the film, and his ideas, we are writing together, sometimes we ourselves... ...wondering what it is, and if we do it, will people watch it? They will watch it 100%. We have that confidence in the film.

Very ambitious, very big. But when I say dark, it is not slow... ...or we will stop it lightly and just... ...artistically, we will shoot it in half light and make it artistic. It's a very commercial film. Very commercial, very big.

Two heroines, six songs, fights, action, drama, crime, character, everything. It has everything. It is not a small film. It's not a dark type of film that only a few people watch.

It's a big film. It's very commercial type movie, only a few people have seen it.

It's a big film, it's very commercial in its core. So, what is it going to add to this movie and your image? I don't know what it will add, but I know it's a good film to do. You'll be having a calculation, right? I don't have a calculation. If I had, I would have done some work. I don't have a calculation. I don't have a calculation of what to do after this.

That's what middle class upbringing does to you. If you are already born in a family which understands the business, not just any business, not just cinema, you may be born in a family like that, we hear business calculations in dining table conversations since childhood.

They will tell us. Father will come and tell us. You know, how to look at this and that. You know, how to understand this. How to form a strategy. They will teach us from childhood.

Even if they don't want to teach, they will grow around those conversations. The conversations chutte perugutharu. Nen birge conversations chala veru. Cornetto 30 rupees aithe, adagaddu le mo le mammini ane moodlo ontum manam. Chinnapadu, 25 dekaro ipp eat, I don't need to do anything else. So, this is the conversation I have with you.

One bathroom which was outside my house. Right. So, my brain would have been stuck in that survival mode. So, about business strategy... I told you earlier, right? If you are roaming around like a mad person without food,

it will be like KFC's ketchup. Talking about business strategy in a middle class household.

Right.

So, I don't have a calculation. I don't even know how to form a strategy. But, the minute I realized that I don't know, it was formed.

Hmm.

How to do this from now on.

Right.

So, now I'm trying to learn. I'm trying to learn, I'm trying to understand. Learning what we don't have is the process. Makes sense. We've learned everything, what else? Do you think that the new trend is that there is more scope for characters with grey shades? Because there are more perfectionist heroes than there were before.

If there are hero characters, there are more perfectionist ones. Real characters have more acceptance. If you show characters without any vulnerabilities or flaws, it is too good to be true. No one is like that. Now, he drinks, smokes, talks to girls,

he kisses his parents, he does everything well. I mean, there's a different story. I asked you a question earlier about what's Tilly's favorite dialogue. There's another Tilly, right? He comes in a pink gown.

He says, If you look at me with a jasmine crown, why are you talking like that? It's all good, right? He says, That's me, right. How can it be all good? There must be some difference between good and bad.

I doubt that it's all good.

Right.

So, they know that it's too good to be true. The audience has become smart. They've realized that it's too good to be true. To be a good character. And the brain has my brain a bit after watching the world cinema and after COVID. I feel acceptance wise, I can be a hero.

We can say a protagonist. We are telling a story from someone's point of view and the person who is taking it forward is the protagonist. If you say hero, he will do everything correctly. No, let's say protagonist. Right. You have said something like, to make people laugh, I cried in the back side.

And generally, there is a saying, naturally, there is pain behind sarcastic and humorous people. What is your view on it?

Do you have a past or you have in your life?

To support that statement, sarcasm... When it is created, it is...

We see it a lot and then...

We stop feeling pain from that... And then we say, that's it.

That's sarcasm. So I think sarcasm stems from that place Yangyaanu anethi ippudena akkaninchu oosthadu Manakke oko chaalam manam chusi chusi chusi chusi Than lolinchu manakke etuvanti emotion guda raadam agipenappudu Sarcasm oosthadu So of course there are certain pains that I have gone through and certain sad stories that are there

but I generally don't like to talk about them. I feel like telling you my pain and suffering is a very boring job. And generally you have spoken well about your parents. About your father and mother. How they contributed to your life. I even watched a video of your mother, coming to the show with you,

the way she rose you up is next level.

Yeah, yeah.

She worked for All India Radio for almost 10-20 years. Much longer than that.

More than that?

25 years, over 25 years career. You must have been very lucky. Yeah, yeah. I used to go to All India Radio studios when I was a kid. Okay. If you go and see it now, when you get a chance, you'll be surprised how big the studios are.

Hmm.

To do a program in a single RJ, the studio size is equivalent to your office.

Wow.

If you talk in front of a mic in a single RJ, this is a console. But the studio size is equivalent to your office. Exactly equivalent to your office. Hmm. The keys are at your office. Exactly at your office. So, I used to meet musicians there. Okay.

Radio... And when the radio programs were happening, there was a Rainbow FM. So, I got a lot of exposure there. Actually, towards art, I got exposure there.

And your mother's timing is next level. Oh, this is nothing. If you see my mother's conversation at home, you'll be shocked. She said, Gang Stars, and there's a first web series on Amazon Prime. I did that. That's the first web series in Telugu.

Right, I've seen it. Gang Stars, Nandini Reddy... You'll be a director or something, right? I did it as a director. Ajay Bhuvanan directed it. It was released. I called my mom and asked if she had seen it. She said, yes, she has seen it. I asked her what was the situation.

She said, first of all, it's not good. Second of all, even if you give a margin of being a good person. So, the amount of criticism I get at home, I don't care about the criticism outside. Because, there is so much roasting happening at home. Even if I say something, like, this scene will be good,

she will say, it won't be good. She says, I will say only if I like it. So my parents are very simple people who... My mom is honest like that. My dad is very positive.

Nice.

My mom will give you the most realistic advice in any scenario. My dad will give you the most positive feedback. Good, you did hard work. Great. If it doesn't work out, no problem. Even if you get a cold in the rainy season, it's okay. No stress under my daddy.

My mom will go a little deeper into things. Right, right. Maybe this is the first time I'm talking as a men's hatter. But, generally, men also have a few days a month where they feel low or suddenly they feel depressed.

Some kind of imbalance inside mentally and physically also. Some people accept it, some people don't. Some people openly say it. Do you think that? Do you believe that? I think this is weird towards men. When we are struggling, if you are a nobody, I don't think anyone gives a shit about you. I feel that you have to do shit about you. I mean, you might not get what you lost.

I feel that you have to do something, you have to achieve something. You have to achieve something.

Right.

If you go and stand there, they will respect you. But that respect is very jealousy and very... Absolutely accepting. If a man doesn't do anything, he can't survive. It's impossible. So I feel that it's very unfair to men. I believe that. Some people might say that, not just men-centric women, but family conditioning is like that.

We were having a conversation about men. Having a conversation about women, it's a completely different ball game. If they have their own struggles, of course they are also there. But as a man, I've realized over the last 10 years or whatever, there were a lot of times when I felt the heat. If you're a nobody... Once, the producer

used to hang out in the office. And then, It was a mood.

I mean, 5-6 years into this place.

Then, one night, one party was happening. and a lot of people came. They introduced him. He's a director. He's going to make a film. I won't tell his name. But he's making a film. He's making a film with 3-4 heroes. Party is going on. everyone is getting drunk. I asked him, did you dance? He said yes. Look at my madness, I did it. I was dancing when there were 20-30 people drinking.

I thought he would give me a chance. So, okay. What happened is, I have a lot of mental problems, I will go around first things that happened and the things that hurt our feelings... How society is to men who have not achieved anything or... If you see a guy who is trying to become a hero or an actor...

People will look at him like a mad person. You know, at least now maybe... Since film making is easy now, we think he can do it. He can take out the camera and upload it on YouTube. But that was the behavior. They thought they could have fun at my expense.

I did dance there. I did it. Look at my desperation to act. I did dance. So, there is a weird perspective. If you see a man doing something, everyone is going to get a kick out of it. But that's the grind.

You have to keep grinding and grinding and grinding and come out of it.

Very true.

So, I think... It's tough. And whom do you expect? When you're all at home, What do you expect when you are in the office? Bad day at work or after the work you are depressed or feeling bad? What is that? Whose shoulder do you expect? Friends and family.

You will be open with them? Yeah, I have two or three solid friends. They support me even after I murder them. I have such strong friends. I think they are very important. They are very important friends.

So I lean on to them. When I call them, they are always in a mood to be there. I don't tell their names because last time in an airport, I saw them in a reel.

My friend, a girl, saw them in the reel, they have stalked my profile. Boys. Since then, if you go anywhere and say my name,

I will beat you. So I have some really good friends who are my backbone. There is a statement, you don't need a hundred friends, you just need three solid people and you don't need a hundred friends.

You just need three solid people and you can take over a continent.

If we have three solid people, what can we do?

I have friends in film making too.

Ravikanth, who is also a professional friend and a personal friend.

So, we have a personal friend. Sreecharan who does music is a good friend. Malik is a very good friend. So we have a small gang. We are also friends and we are also film makers. Right.

And in another interview you said that you thought you would be a hero and would travel a lot in short flights. But after you landed you realized that you had a problem with maintenance. That was cut there.

But if I can ask you, what did you mean by maintenance? First, the brand was doing well.

Okay.

Okay. Tillu, Tillu Square was released. Till then, we were very... We were very struggled, we were very confined. We didn't have money to buy anything, to do anything. We didn't have anything.

After Tillu, after Part 1, I went to Dubai. I went to Dubai mall. I said, every single brand that there is in the world has to be in my house. I mean, it has to be finished. There is no time to move on.

I said, every single brand that is in the world has to be in my house. After that, I enjoyed all of that for some time. Now I just don't care. Now I feel like, I'm not paying you to wear your T-shirt. You have to pay me to wear your T-shirt. If I want to wear your slippers,

you have to pay me. If I want to show off my slippers, you have to pay me. That should be the aim. It should reach there. Because it's a fugazi idea.

It's all pixel dust. After a point, brands will give it to you. If you like it, buying it is different. Wearing it is different. But certain times what happens is, if I don't wear these clothes,

I don't have value. If I come to the mindset, it's never ending. A guy says, if you do it everyday, you can do it someday. Maintenance is about putting up a front. I don't know how to do that. And I say it's okay. I don't have to do what I can't do. I don't need to. My core strength is different. I can write and shoot films. That's my core strength. Some people have PR. They do it very well.

Sometimes I feel like, learn from them. I can't do what I can't. They can't do what they can't. So, they have the strength. They have to play on that. And it's okay. No matter how much we try, it's never ending. If you go from here to Hollywood, it's one thing. If you go to Bollywood, you'll get Hollywood.

If you go from Hollywood, you'll get another thing. Tomorrow, you'll get something else. So, it's never ending. You should have ambition. You should definitely reach heights. You should have zeal. You have to work hard for it. You have to do all the work you have to do for it. But if you don't do it, you can't live.

If you don't achieve it, you can't live. You have to stop that mindset after a point. Because you will burn out if you are not good. Life should be lived also. You have to enjoy it. If you sit and do nothing,

what will you enjoy life? So, you have enjoyable. After you've reached a good level, I think you should just wait once and see. What else do you have to do? You'll keep doing what you're doing. Your mind won't listen to you. Kotal Sivagar said,

Once, I left my hometown and got into a bus stop. I think about how much I have that day. If you compare it to that day, anything is a bonus. It's not like he is from a rich family. He actually comes from his parents

and all were proper intellectuals. So, he said that if you compare it to that day, anything is a bonus. Which is so true. But hunger, greed, these are all

dark things in your life which won't, won't, you know. You can't sit with someone, Ravi. Very true. You have to do something, you have to do something else, you have to do something else, you have to do something else. I have never said that you should do it. I have said that you shouldn't do it 200%. But if you don't do it, you are a waste. You won't come back.

You shouldn't have that mindset, you are a waste, you are useless. You should not have that mindset.

Right.

Because if you have that mindset, we can't be happy no matter what we do.

True.

What is your inspiration? It can be a book, a person, a situation. You keep getting inspired. It can be one thing everyday. But it's up to you. What is your inspiration?

When I see someone doing something that I want to do and creating the impact that I want to create or living the life that I want to live or someone who is... Now, I have changed. Before, if someone was driving a big car, I would have thought that we should be in a big mansion like him.

Hmm.

Coming from a lower middle class family, when we came, we thought we were big. All those dreams still exist. I said no. But now I... I understood one thing. The outside is one and the inside is another. The world.

Hmm.

So just because someone is living in a very big house, it doesn't mean he's very happy. The world is one thing outside and another thing inside. The kind of people I get inspired by are those who have learned to be happy in a very small way. Right. I find him very inspiring. His life is different, Dr. Ganesh. I feel like learning from him. He is happy. He is not tensed at all. Whether he gets likes or comments.

Whether we are trending or not. Whether it's viral or not. Whether people look at us and buy our clothes or not. Whether our collection is big or not. He is not sick. He is eating ice cream. He is eating ice cream since yesterday. I thought he was going to die.

So, I feel that even among the stars, when I see them living a very peaceful and happy life, away from everything and this place, this film industry, it can give you a God complex and it can make you feel like you are the ultimate and there is no one who can beat you. You are invincible. This place creates such a feeling.

I feel very good when I see people who go into that trap and come out. People who respect the small things, or people who are happy in small things, and people who can achieve basic humanity. Some people say, don't be like him in life. Some people say,

we should be like him. I feel like that. I get inspired by such people. Even more than materialistic possessions. If we can keep our mind and heart clean, Innocence will pull us to this place.

First, we start drawing sketches. If I tell him that, he will tell me that. Then he will come to me. In a scenario where I don't need to draw sketches, I have to keep any sketches, how should I keep myself at maximum? Because it's very difficult to function 24x7 like an antenna.

So, such situations and such people inspire me. This is a very comfortable chair. Which is very important for an interview. Actually, it's very comfortable chair, which is very important for an interview. Actually, there is a story behind this coffee. What is it? A politician came to me and asked me how I would offer black coffee.

I told him that I have two or three brands. I told him that this brand is the best for the guests. I told him that the pricing is Rs.25,000 per cup for KG. He said that I should be mad at him. I was like, why should he get it? He should get it. So, before the Black Coffee operation, they would ask me a few times, if it's okay to have these brands,

or if I should give them more green tea. or if I should give them more green tea.

They would take it as a guest.