Tamil hero Suriya is always a big fan of Telugu superstar Akkineni Nagarjuna and always admires him for another reason. Now, in the age of Baahubali that led to Pan-India films being made, Suriya has actually hinted that Nagarjuna is well ahead of them in making such movies, and he cites a different perspective regarding the same.

The other day, speaking at the pre-release event of the movie " Scene”, which is hitting cinemas on November 6th, Suriya’s third one this year after Veerabhadrudu (Karuppu) and Viswanath & Sons, the actor stated that he’s actually taking the path laid by Nagarjuna. He said, “Back then, Nag sir worked with Mahesh Bhatt (Bollywood), Priyadarshan (Malayalam) and Maniratnam (Tamil) when no one had thought of that even”. Indirectly, he stated that picking up a Malayalam director Jithu for Scene, after the Telugu director Venky Atluri for Viswanath & Sons, is an idea following Nagarjuna from years back.

Well, back then many Telugu stars have actually roped in Tamil and Malayalam directors to create something unique, and Nagarjuna stood tall as he utilised most of their creative brilliance. Right now, however, we have to say that the likes of Allu Arjun are following that path as he picked up Atlee & Lokesh from Kollywood after Sukumar, and then going for Basil Joseph (Malayalam) afterwards.

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