Kollywood’s popular actor-turned-director Prithviraj Sukumaran over a recent conversation with the media expressed his aspirations as an actor and filmmaker to direct Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan.
Sukumaran has been a part of several Tamil, Hindi and Telugu films and made his directorial debut in 2019 with Lucifer. Amidst his conversation, Sukumaran opened up on his his desire to direct Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan in a film. While, he didn’t reveal much, the actor-turned-filmmaker shared that it was an adaptation of an idea he had initially imagined for Shah Rukh Khan. For those unversed Sukumaran is acknowledged for films Vidaamuyarchi, Vettaiyan, Ponniyin Selvan: I & II, Indian 2, and more. He calls himself an accidental director.
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The Kana Kandaen actor Sukumaran revealed that he was in London, and met Subaskaran. We were having lunch and he pitched him an idea that it is his desire to direct Rajini sir, which is an adaptation of an idea that he developed when someone else reached out to him to direct a Hindi film that he wanted to pitch to Shah Rukh.
When the interviewer responded that he hoped it would happen, Sukumaran nodded in affirmation, saying, “Subaskaran was really excited about the idea.
Prithviraj also spoke about reuniting with Mohanlal for Empuraan, the second instalment of Lucifer. Talking about the ambitious project, he noted that 35 per cent of the film is being shot in Hindi.
In fact, he intends to leave Empuraan in this way in all the languages that it will be released in.The first 25 minutes of the film would feel like a Hindi film”.He further added that opening up the markets is good for a film like Empuraan, which is very ‘national and international’ in nature.
About the hype around the extensive use of VFX, Prithviraj said, he is notorious for preferring to shoot in real. There are extensive CGI sequences, but mostly like to shoot in real locations.
Be it the chopper scenes, the explosions, most of them are not VFX.
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