Pressure on Actors in Film Industry

They say this pressure over numbers and the market is pan-India.

Now everyone has this feeling that all young actors are under this pressure.

What do you want to say about that feeling?

We have currently released it only in Telugu.

Right now, there is a lot of pressure on me to bring it to

Hindi. So, um, we haven't done the censor

procedures and all that.

So now, people are asking me incessantly.

So we're trying to figure

out how to take it into those areas.

But this was primarily, um, essentially

made in Telugu, about Telugu. Rahul definitely wanted Tamil because

of the Madras famine, which was an inspiration called Ranabali.

But these numbers…

Um…

My only wish is that

our producer recovers the budget we invested.

That's my number one wish. If that is satisfied, I am satisfied.

Um, beyond that, I think it is a

the role fans and media play. Uh, and

We have, in a way, made cinema a competition over time, which is

I feel harmful to the, to the art of cinema. It's not

a running race, right?

Uh, and cinema can never be a competition because

for there to be a race, we all have to run on the same track.

That is, if we all did the same script, with the same director, on the same budget,

then it could be a race. In any race,

everyone has the same track—that equal thing, cinema

isn't like that, right? We can't call it a race.

I am telling the story I want to tell.

Another actor tells a story he likes and wants to tell, a story he connected with

differently.

So, by making this a race, we

uh, a

that is a

pointless space. I think if it reaches a level

actors will also start having, now everyone, our audience, feel

They feel we have to deliver this much, make such a big film.

Like, now

I have to do this even though their heart might be in multiple things.

So, in creating that atmosphere, we have to control it.

An actor won't sit and try to build that atmosphere.

But once it's built, sometimes you have to play the game