He is so fabulous that any director would want to cast him,' he said. I am a great admirer of his work and wanted him to come on board. 'I remember watching Fahadh's film Maheshinte Prathikaaram and then I started watching almost all his films. In the film, Faasil is seen as a nemesis to Arjun's Pushpa, and the director said the Malayalam star was the ideal choice for the role, courtesy his power-packed performances in all of his previous movies. Pushpa: The Rise also stars Rashmika Mandanna and Fahadh Faasil. Then I told the producer and my hero about the same and we all discussed it and that's how things happened,' he added. We can't let the whole story come out in a single part. 'It was one complete story first and when we started editing in between, we felt it is better to make it in two parts. The latter will commence production next year. The filmmaker also explained the reason for splitting the movie into two parts - Pushpa: The Rise and Pushpa: The Rule. But then I thought that it is also a very commercial idea and making a movie would be the right thing,' he added. 'I started researching for a web-series, I wanted to make (it as) a web-series on red sanders smuggling. 'Also, we started Pushpa' as a Telugu movie but then with the subject and Allu Arjun being on board, we thought of making it as a multilingual, he added.Īt one point, Sukumar said, he thought of making Pushpa as a web-series. And when I completed the story, I went to him again.' He agreed to do the movie soon after I narrated the idea, he was very excited.

'We (Arjun) have a very good bond and we are good friends. The duo earlier collaborated for 2004's Arya and its sequel Arya 2, which came out in 2009. Once the Telugu filmmaker began actively working on the new script, Arjun was the only actor he had in mind. So, the backdrop was the same but the story is different,' Sukumar told PTI in an interview. And with Mahesh Babu, I couldn't make him cool. Once I came out of the project, I wrote a different story. 'The story I narrated to Mahesh Babu was also based on red sander smuggling but that was a while ago. The first part, which released on December 17 in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam, chronicles the red sanders heist in the hills of Andhra and depicts the convoluted nexus that unfurls in the course of the narrative of a man who is taken by avarice.

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