Toning Down Hindi Gaalis To Working With His Uncle, Rana Daggubati Gives A Peek Of 'Rana Naidu'
Rana Daggubati and Venkatesh, the?uncle-nephew duo, are ready to take over OTT! Fans are going crazy about the outstanding duo's next role in the Ray Donovan adaptation "Rana Naidu"!
The Chronicles of Daggubati!
Rana Daggubati and Venkatesh, the uncle-nephew duo, is ready to take over OTT! Fans are going crazy for the uncle-nephew jodi's next role in the Ray Donovan adaptation "Rana Naidu"!
In a discussion with Film Companion, Rana Daggubati and Venkatesh will be seen acting as a father and son team in the show. The actor spoke about how he convinced Venkatesh to join Rana Naidu so he said, ¡°The fact that we haven¡¯t worked together for so many years, we listened to a lot of stories that came our way. One day my dad came and said, ¡®This show is about all the bad people ra, all bad guys are there. They don¡¯t become good only. So I said that it is not about good people. But Venky said, ¡®Who is playing that old man¡¯s role I want to play it.¡¯ And that¡¯s how it happened.¡±
In addition, Rana shared how the creators of the show made the decision to filter some of his harsh Hindi expletives by omitting their translation for the Telugu-dubbed version.
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¡°You know how (when) you convert basic Hindi lines to Telugu, it sounds a little bit off? Me saying it is still okay, but Venky (Venkatesh) saying it is just impossible, there¡¯s no way that¡¯s going to happen. So, we were like these guys are from Hyderabad and they speak Hindi so let¡¯s leave them in Hindi, so a lot of it is in Hindi as it is. But we¡¯re making sure that Venky¡¯s audiences are not hurt too much.¡±
¡°But there is this one disclaimer that I keep giving to everybody who saw the trailer, and kept saying, ¡®Wow Venky did this and Venky did that¡¡¯ I say, a Venkatesh film in Telugu region is a family film; grandparents, kids, families go together on festivals. I said everybody watch this independently. Like on your own screen, at your own time. It is a different kind of family (in the show),¡± Rana added.
Nepotism! Nepotism! Nepotism!
When asked why the Telugu film business, which is dominated by three or four large, influential families, including his own, doesn't face the same criticism as Bollywood for nepotism, Rana responded that the cause rests in the way the sector developed in its early years.
He relocated from Chennai to Hyderabad 25 years ago, at a time when many Telugu people had migrated to an area with just rocks and were attempting to construct homes and film in them.
The entertainment business operated in that manner. Nobody wished to participate in this. In the beginning, people would approach him and say things like, "Sir, my kid failed the 10th grade, he won't accomplish anything, why don't you make him an assistant director in your movie." That was our world, the kind of people who wanted to come. It was looked down upon by the elite, educated world. What was there? Just families who held it. This is what we do, this is what we will do generation after generation and create that eco-system.¡±
Telugu and Hindi versions of Rana Naidu will begin streaming on Netflix from March 10.
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