Allu Arjun

Allu Arjun: Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you. I'd like to, I'd like to thank the entire media for being here and taking this event to the hearts of the people. Thank you very much.

And it's an absolute delight to address to the national media for the first time in my life. It's a great moment for me. Thank you. Thank you very much, and I'm pretty positive that I will keep seeing you a lot more in the future.

Thank you. That's so nice of you sir. That's so nice of you. A brilliant human being, a wonderful dancer, brilliant actor.

So what is that one thing that you see in a movie before signing, you know, a movie? What is that one The intention. Mm. The intention and what you're doing the film for.

Right. Are you doing it for the money? Are you doing it for the release? Or are you doing it for the audience?

The intention is above all. Right. Unfortunately, sir, because of, the unfortunate, circumstances, this took a lot of time, you know? Absolutely. What do you have to say on that, sir?

You know. It's a very difficult film to shoot. We were shooting this film in a forest, and we were a crew of almost 500 people. Right. And the logistics to provide 500 people food, accommodation, sanitation, all this was very difficult in a remote, forest area.

Right. So it is a very difficult to film to shoot, especially during the COVID times with so many COVID restrictions. Mm-hmm. I think I would I said it earlier also, this one Pushpa film was equal to four films' effort. First of all, I'd like to thank the audience all over the North for receiving South films and making it so big.

Not just about watching, South films in, not just about watching South films in the North, we equally also admire Bollywood, you know, Hindi cinema. We've always been admiring it for years, for many years. We also invite Hindi cinema to dub into our languages and come, and we will be there to support your films also.

It is not about, you know, South cinema or North cinema, it's about Indian cinema. We're I think we all will grow together as the biggest cinema in the world in the years to come as Indian cinema. Thank you. This is the first time, in spite of your movies working so well on satellite, working so well online, theatrically, this is the first time your Pan India film coming.

So henceforth, like you have Icon releasing, there is Icon, and there's probably a Koratala Siva movie also. Henceforth, is every Allu Arjun movie going to be a Pan India film? Mean, there is no, doubt about it, there's no option?

Preferably, I would like to make it everything Pan India because not just about Pan India, I'm saying why are you even restricting to that? You know, maybe somebody else wants to watch it, somewhere, you know, people in other countries, maybe Sri Lanka, neighboring countries, Pakistan, other countries want to watch it. We don't know. You know, language is no barrier for, cinema.

So I think we should just go for, I would say more than Pan India, I would say we should go for a multi-language release and see how far we can go as Indian cinema. Interviewer: Hi. Hello. You look so pretty and beautiful- Rashmika Mandanna: Thank you. Interviewer: Yet you portrayed, the character, it is a de-glam character.

Yes. So did you have any inhibitions? Inhibitions? No. Mm. Rashmika Mandanna: I think I had no inhibitions when it came to I knew I was playing a different character. I knew that I had to pour my heart, soul, sweat, everything into this character because this is, like I keep saying, this is a whole different world that we're entering.