Prashanth Neel on NTR look in Dragon
Prashanth Neel on NTR look in Dragon. The Dragon glimpse released on NTR's birthday couple of days ago, got tremendous response from all quarters.
The film is releasing in two parts and Rukmini Vasanth is playing the female lead. Now, Prashanth Neel speaking to scribes shared why NTR looked pale in some scenes.
He said , “I told him that if you became thinner for the role of the assassin, it would help.” and added “He didn’t shoot for the next four months, and he lost about 15 kgs at one point of time. I asked him to stop many times in between because he started looking frail and became paler but he didn’t stop,”
He shared “His wife was upset with me, his mother was upset with me, all his friends were upset with me. Everybody who knew him was upset with me. My whole team was upset with me, but I told them that was not my doing. I just told him to lose a little bit of weight, and he went berserk with it,”
Talking about how NTR came on board, he said "Five years ago we met and when I told him the line of the movie… I am not going to be presumptuous of the fact that I want to be humble all the time, but I think this is probably one of the most difficult decisions that he had to take to play this character. Not because of what is there in the trailer, but what the drama of the movie is. It was one of the biggest decisions that he has to take to play this particular role."
He continued “By the end of this film, everyone will know why I am saying this. It is a dark character. It is probably more darker than any character, not probably, it is the darkest character I have written. For him to play something like that, and the only question he asked was for every character being right or wrong, is the drama right for it? Is there a reason for it? It took us 3 years to come up with that reasoning, to arrive at that point to validate why that character does what he does. At the end, he said let us do it. It is very risky for a star of his magnitude. For someone who is loved all over the country. What he is doing is absolutely brave.”
