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Prabhas’ Next ‘Saaho’ Is a Complete Opposite of ‘Baahubali’

‘Saaho’ would be an out-and-out action flick.

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Post the historical success of Baahubali, Prabhas is all set to star in  a full-on action film in Telugu titled Saaho. This was a film he was committed to do from before Baahubali. And now he’s picking it up from where he left.

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We are making the film exactly the way we had planned before the release of Baahubali. There will be no changes.
Sujeeth, Director of Saaho

Young filmmaker, Sujeeth, who at  26, has been given the responsibility of directing Prabhas in his  post-Baahubali film, is not in the least daunted by the responsibility ahead.

Speaking on the task ahead, Sujeeth,  who made his directorial debut at 23, says; “When we signed Prabhas for Saaho, Baahubali had not released. In fact I narrated Saaho to Prabhas in January 2015, six months ahead of  the release of the first Baahubali. At that time too Prabhas was already a big star. Of course now he’s something else…”

Sujeeth laughs a little nervously as he  recalls his beginning. “I have no formal training  in  filmmaking. I was making short  films from the time when I was a teenager. By the time I was 19, I had made 35 short films. I  made my first feature film Run Raja Run when I was 23. Actually I’d have started earlier. But two of my films that I was chosen to direct were shelved. Maybe I was found to be too young.”

It’s interesting how Sujeeth and Prabhas met for Saaho.

It was the success party of my first feature film Run Raja Run and the film had given the leading man Sharwanand a change of image. A lot of other Telugu heroes wanted a similar makeover from me. So when Prabhas, who was already  a big star, approached me at the party, I didn’t take him seriously enough when he told me to write a film for him. I thought it was just a social chitchat.
Sujeeth

Taking the request half-seriously, Sujeeth started work on Saaho and then abandoned plans halfway thinking it was just a casual party conversation. However, a few months later, Prabhas scolded Sujeeth about his laxity in doing the needful.

That was when Sujeeth geared into action. He reveals he wrote the second-half of Saaho on the road on the way to narrating Saaho to Prabhas!

‘Saaho’ would be an out-and-out action flick.
Prabhas and Sujeeth. (Photo courtesy: Twitter)
“That’s right,” laughs the director with all the demeanour of a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar. “I had worked out the script till interval point. Beyond that I just made up the plot while reaching Prabhas’ house for narration. And I kept adding ideas as I narrated to him. When I saw Prabhas’ enthusiastic face during the narration, I was encouraged and enthused into innovating, just like the stories I used to tell my mother when I was a child, and she would encourage me with her smiles and laughs .”
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At that point of time Sujeeth never guessed  he would direct Saaho.

I thought I’d sell the screenplay to Prabhas’ producers who had earlier worked with him in a hit film called Mirchi.  I thought I’d get some money for the script and I’ll make my mother happy by giving her that money. It was Prabhas who suggested I direct Saaho. That’s how I got my second film.

Sujeeth can’t get over how supportive dedicated and uni-focused Prabhas is to every project.

During the five years that he did Baahubali, I would visit him on the sets to watch him, to share ideas with him. He was completely with Rajamouli Sir all the way. Now he’s completely with me. Before he left for the US for a break, he called me and said, ‘Don’t worry about anything. Let’s just make the  film we decided to make, no  more, no less.’ He hasn’t changed  at all. Why should he?

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