Teja, the maverick director has been waiting for a success from long time and he finally had been able to get a good producer backing for his story as Rana Daggubati accepted to be a part of his Nene Raju Nene Mantri, as Jogendra. Promoting the movie, the actor and director have participated in one off the chat shows and they praised each other. The interesting thing here is Teja praising Rana ..
The director said, "I have worked with many actors before and this movie could not have been made with them. They think they know everything and they have many limitations of image that they value more than the story. So, when I was searching for my Jogendra In found you to be intelligent actor who will understand the subject and work on the character rather than giving importance to image. This is not a regular commercial hero character and there are grey shades to the hero and he is not righteous as we presume a Telugu hero to be on screen! So, you became my choice and I'm happy working with you."
He continued saying, "I have seen your films and understood how you choose them as you worked with Puri Jagannath, Ram Gopal Verma and SS Rajamouli, Krish too. You've varied experience and I thought that will make my work easy as well." Teja, nearly after a decade tasted success and he seems to attributing more of it to Rana. He has been orchestrating that heroes should change and may be he found something in Rana to credit him so much for the success than he normally does!
The director said, "I have worked with many actors before and this movie could not have been made with them. They think they know everything and they have many limitations of image that they value more than the story. So, when I was searching for my Jogendra In found you to be intelligent actor who will understand the subject and work on the character rather than giving importance to image. This is not a regular commercial hero character and there are grey shades to the hero and he is not righteous as we presume a Telugu hero to be on screen! So, you became my choice and I'm happy working with you."
He continued saying, "I have seen your films and understood how you choose them as you worked with Puri Jagannath, Ram Gopal Verma and SS Rajamouli, Krish too. You've varied experience and I thought that will make my work easy as well." Teja, nearly after a decade tasted success and he seems to attributing more of it to Rana. He has been orchestrating that heroes should change and may be he found something in Rana to credit him so much for the success than he normally does!