NTR Rejected Oopiri for Socks Scene!

As we all know, Junior NTR was the first choice for director Vamsy Paidipally and producer Prasad V Potluri to play Seenu character in ‘Oopiri.’ In fact, Nagarjuna, NTR along with Vamsy, Prasad reportedly met more than four to five times for locking the ‘Oopiri’ script. NTR was so excited with the role and was eager to see the project go on sets. However, NTR decided to drop from ‘Oopiri’ at penultimate hour quoting different reasons.

Today, ‘Oopiri’ is enjoying a rave response just due to an entertaining first half with Karthi as Seenu taking the top honors. If commercial calculations are analyzed, PVP picked a right combination of Nagarjuna, Karthi making sure that revenues are equally scored high from both Telugu and Tamil states. However, NTR missing the best of characterizations is highlighted more in cinema circles.         

‘NTR is a very big star hero which Karthi is not for Telugu viewers. This made director’s task easy to show Karthi as caretaker for Nagarjuna. There are few worth mentioning scenes of Karthi touching Nagarjuna’s feet as a part of performing caretaker’s duty. Karthi tucks Nagarjuna feet inside the socks and also massages the toe in a particular episode. 

As a rule of Telugu hero stardom, NTR Fans would have rejected whole ‘Oopiri’ theme if such scenes went wrong hurting their sentiments. NTR could have speculated those foredooming frustrations from Fans and cleverly took the exit door. Today, Karthi is reviewed as perfect and fit replacement for Tarak. Think positive and results are ought to come out double positive,’ an analyst inferred the bottom line on how NTR’s absence helped ‘Oopiri’ to score big.