![]() ![]() "As a regular human, if you go to a jungle over a weekend, you feel refreshed and rejuvenated. While we are talking about the film in conference rooms and cities, when you go into the wild and spend more than a year in that environment, that is when you will see the real impact and what it means.Īnd when I saw the film along with complete visuals and sound during post production, it blew my mind away,” he adds.Īnd after having shot for Haathi Mere Saathi in the jungle for nearly a year-and-a-half, Daggubati says that the experience has changed him as an individual forever. ![]() This film is very special, and the fact that we shot live on location with real elephants, filming took longer like most films I get into (laughs), but the outcome was great. Then there were some references by Disney, but not in India. It was in the '70s and '80s decades that we saw films with animals in them. It has got the jungle and elephants, and that is something you haven’t seen on screen for a very long time. Similarly, Haathi Mere Saathi is an action-adventure which everyone loves as a film viewing genre. "If I want people to come to theatres, I believe in giving something unique and a whole new experience, whether it is kingdom ( Baahubali) or something underwater ( The Ghazi Attack), or a jungle. For instance, Haathi Mere Saathi, which is a story with elephants in the jungle, so whether I was in Mumbai or Chennai or anywhere else, it is a global story, and will work anywhere,” says the actor.ĭaggubati, who played the antagonist in the highest grossing films of Indian cinema, the two-part Baahubali franchise, says adventure, big scale, and grandeur have always excited him. "Usually, it is the story that tells me which language film I am supposed to be doing as opposed to me deciding that. “My career has been unique," says Daggubati. The film also stars Shriya Pilgaonkar as a news reporter who "decides to walk the path of truth and do her bit in the fight for justice." However, the Tamil and the Telugu versions of the movie ( Kaadan and Aranya) did release in March. Director Prabhu Solomon’s trilingual narrates the story of a ‘jungle man’ fighting against deforestation to save the elephants. The movie was all set to release in cinemas on 26 March but owing to the spike in the number of COVID-19 cases, the release was postponed. Most recently, he has been seen in action-adventure Haathi Mere Saathi, which is a trilingual film. The actor has done several Hindi movies like Housefull 4, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, The Ghazi Attack, Dum Maaro Dum, and Department. Rana Daggubati is one of those few actors who has created a space for himself in not only Tamil and Telugu cinema, but also Bollywood. Into the wild: Rana Daggubati, Shriya Pilgaonkar on new jungle film Haathi Mere Saathi ![]()
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