Rana Daggubati comes from a noted film family and may be a star down south, but he said his innings in the Hindi film world has not turned out to be exceptionally great.
“I’m not exceptionally happy about how I’m moving in Hindi films, and it’s also what made me realise that I can’t be everywhere at once. Now, I’m focussing on content that can travel across languages. It will take time and won’t be easy, but I will be at it,” said the 30-year-old actor, who has in the past featured in Bollywood films like Dum Maaro Dum, Department and Baby.
Mr Daggubati’s forthcoming release Baahubali, a multilingual project directed by S S Rajamouli is an example of his motive. The epic film, the Hindi theatrical rights of which have been bought by Bollywood’s ace filmmaker Karan Johar, will be released in several languages including Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, English, French and more foreign languages. “Right from the time we started the film, I knew we needed a right presenter for it in Hindi. And the first person that came into my mind was Karan Johar, as I knew him. I went to him not with any footage, but with images of what we had shot, and told him the story. He then stepped in and everything fell in place,” said Mr Daggubati.
