EXCLUSIVE: After Kajal Aggarwal’s exit it was difficult, says The Ghost director Praveen Sattaru

Nationwide Award-winning director, Praveen Sattaru, conceptualised a brand new script just for Nagarjuna, who shall be seen enjoying a retired RAW officer within the upcoming movie, The Ghost. “That is for the primary time that I’ve written movie truly for Nagarjuna sir,” stated Praveen in an unique chat with Pinkvilla. The Chandamama Kathalu director additionally revealed that after Kajal Aggarwal’s exit, it was difficult to get somebody who might pull off stunts. 

“It’s a easy story that focuses on household and motion and never as a result of we wished to make an motion movie however as a result of the story calls for. It is vitally natural,” Praveen Sattaru opens up on his upcoming movie The Ghost. 

Kajal Aggarwal had opted out of Nagarjuna Akkineni’s upcoming motion thriller The Ghost attributable to her being pregnant. Praveen confronted a number of challenges there, considered one of them being the delay within the movie’s shoot as a result of pandemic. “We shot with Kajal (Aggarwal) for a few days however she was pregnant and needed to go away. Since there may be a variety of motion within the movie, it was very difficult to some extent to get somebody who can pull off stunts and somebody who might stand shoulder to shoulder with Nag sir. It isn’t simply any heroine character as there are scenes within the movie the place she (Sonal Chauhan) rescues him (Nag). Sonal has managed to drag it off extremely nicely,” the director confessed, who is ready to maneuver on to his subsequent movie starring Varun Tej. 

Nagarjuna Akkineni is a really “chilled out human being”. “Nag by no means stresses out. Even when he walks into the units, it is rather charming. He has obtained that aura I can’t clarify. Be it motion or a romantic scene, it comes naturally,” he shares on his expertise of working with motion king Nagarjuna. 

The Ghost is releasing this Dussehra, on October fifth. Praveen thinks the discharge timing and pre-release publicity are as vital as strong content material however “we don’t should go all out”. 

“We won’t be over-promoting the movie. We’re solely planning to place out our content material on the market for it to work. Content material is what’s going to create the hype and we’re trusting the content material,” he stated. 

In an interview in 2014, Praveen had stated “Should you’re making a easy love story, folks would come and watch it provided that there is a star in it” and that was his greatest studying then. Reacting to the identical, he replies, “Irrespective whether or not you might have a star or not, if there’s a narrative, it’s going to work. Secondly, having a star helps to push the movie to a bigger viewers. However on the finish of the day, the content material must be good. Once I make a movie, I don’t make it to turn into a industrial movie. However I make it on the premise of feelings. Filmmaking for me is an emotion and never a enterprise.” 

Being a Nationwide Award winner, Praveen thinks it doesn’t add any stress however works in any other case. “It doesn’t add any stress. It’s different means truly. When you get a Nationwide Award, they model you as an Indie filmmaker otherwise you can’t make a industrial cinema. However I do take that delight in having the Nationwide Award as a result of it is rather uncommon and distinctive. I’ve been fortunate to win one however once more, I at all times made totally different genres. Motion style amongst all is one thing I take pleasure in essentially the most.”

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