Recalling Auditions With Naveen Polishetty and Vijay Deverakonda

You just mentioned a few names. Naveen Polishetty, Vijay Deverakonda, and Vishwak Sen, all of them...

We all started around the same time. You were all ahead of those people, sir, and I...

You said I was moving a little late. Do you feel that way?

As an actor, I do feel that way, sir. As an actor, I do feel that way.

As a producer-actor, I don't really... Sometimes, from our perspective, depending on the situation... we think small.

In that situation, I think, "Hey, they're all my batch.

They started right alongside me. I used to see them around the office.

How did they all move ahead? So, did you all hang out together, all of you?

Oh, no, no. We didn't hang out all the time, okay.

We'd just see each other around and listen, okay, okay.

Around auditions and things like that, at auditions, okay.

I found out. Naveen Polishetty came. He met Kumari 21F. Okay.

I was also trying for the role, um. So that was how it was, then.

Two people for one role. Who else, sir? The other person was someone called Naveen.

Oh, really? Who else, sir? Who was this? Vijay, from Pelli Choopulu.

Was Vijay the hero? I was also trying for Pelli Choopulu. Um.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Vijay was trying on that side. Uh-huh.

So one of us would go that way. Oh, let's leave it at that. Just one movie.