In this exclusive interview, Vishnu Manchu opens up about his ambitious pan-India film Kannappa, working with his father Mohan Babu, connecting with Mumbaikars, and the challenges South Indian actors face in Bollywood. He shares insights on bridging industries and bringing mythological storytelling to a nationwide audience.
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00:00समय को मंबाय में अच्छे कुमारा विझा इपकषा कुमारा करते हैं
00:16में हम भी क्यों पैस प्रस्ट मुप्री बाइस्ट प्रयरेत्वार्ड दूसे कुट्रीशने का युझे विश्यर कुमारे की?
00:22अक्ष्केकुमार ही क्या हुँ?
00:24भूम वोल्यूड?
00:25वी करें एक्षेकुमार यहोड़ा हो एक्षिक्वार।
00:27त्वी वीन वीजाव चाहिक्वार।
00:29अजीकर फू में एक्षिकुमार याखत्टा हित्वीन जब धमें पर्फेट शिवा चाहर।
00:36लूइस ने के परद्ट एक्षिवा चाहर।
00:39और वहापन तो मैं हिंदी अदिए अदिए अदिए अदिए अदिए बात करने के लिए तोड़ मुश्किल है मेरेको
00:45मेरेको अधरबाद ही हिंदी आता है और वो भी ग्रमतिकल मिस्टेक्स रहेगा गलत है तो माफ करिये कुछ
00:52अदिए अधर गया प्यार हुए वो तो इस सहोलो की आता है नहीं आता है
01:22at the same time, because you have your legacy in South and then you are coming in Bollywood
01:27Was it a bit different, you know, यहा की मेडिया, do you find it like a bit different from the media that you have there?
01:34Not really
01:35जया बच्छर्चर्च
01:37My mom
01:39You know, hook, cock, crook, this is my life, this is what I know and this is what I'll do
01:44Only people like that can survive here
01:46What's your favourite Bollywood film?
01:48Quite a few, my recent one is, the one I saw was Chhawa
01:52It's 3-2, I'm quite, you know, I really like those
01:55Are you also a review kind of a guy who reads the review after the film is released?
02:00Not really
02:01I used to but then I realized that everybody's got an opinion today
02:06So, I don't generally read the reviews, I just hear the public feedback and that's why it matters
02:11My experience of the film media down there is at least they have a little concentration for the families
02:15and they keep a little far away
02:17What learnings have you taken from the legacy of your father?
02:19Discipline is the only way which will get you where you have to be
02:23and it's consistency
02:26Consistent, you have to be consistently
02:29true to your work
02:31true to your family
02:33discipline to your work
02:35and treat work like your
02:37religion
02:38Hi, I'm Vishnu Manchu and you're watching me on FilmyBeat
02:41FilmyBeat
02:42never fails to take you to the
02:44North and South of India
02:46and today it is very
02:47amalgamation of both the places
02:49welcoming you Vishnu
02:51to FilmyBeat
02:52Firstly, congratulations
02:54I was there at the launch
02:55you know
02:56when it happened
02:57in Mumbai especially
02:58and you were very
02:59happy to know that
03:01how media and people are taking it
03:03the song is also out
03:05a romantic song
03:06Yes
03:07how do you see Kanappa
03:09as a project
03:10and to you know
03:12a first ever project of yours
03:14to be a pan-India film
03:15I'm quite excited that
03:17I'm able to come out with a movie
03:19which I'm very passionate about
03:21has a first movie which is releasing
03:24across the country
03:25so it's a
03:26it's a Eureka moment for me
03:27I guess it's so difficult you know
03:30and at the same time
03:32because you have your
03:33legacy in South
03:35and then you're coming
03:36in Bollywood and met people in Mumbai
03:38was it a bit different
03:39you know
03:40Yaha ki media
03:41do you find it like
03:42bit different from the media
03:44that you have there
03:45not really
03:46I haven't experienced
03:48they also write headlines about you
03:49and we also
03:50yeah but
03:51the only thing
03:52the difference there and here
03:53is that
03:54here the media
03:55now today
03:56is a film
03:57I'm talking about the film media
03:59I'm not talking about the general media
04:00yeah
04:01my experience of the film media
04:03down there is at least
04:04they have a little concentration
04:05for the families
04:06and they keep a little far away
04:07but whatever I read here
04:09they blurred the lines
04:11but see the film industry
04:12is like one big family
04:13yeah
04:14and
04:15you know it's about
04:17how you give your relationship
04:18how well you have the relationship
04:20how you nurture it
04:21with the journalist
04:22with the film fraternity
04:23it always helps
04:25that's true
04:26that's true
04:27are you also a review
04:28kind of a guy
04:29who reads the review
04:31after the film is released
04:32or
04:33when you you know
04:34not really
04:35not really
04:36I used to
04:36but then
04:37I realized that
04:38everybody's got an opinion today
04:40so I don't generally
04:41read the reviews
04:42I just hear the public feedback
04:43and that's all it matters
04:45coming to Mumbai
04:48you know
04:49is difficult
04:50or different
04:51or interesting for you
04:52how do you define that
04:54it's like any other state in the country
04:56the way you have degraded us
04:59of course it's interesting
05:00no it's not degrading
05:01it's just like for me
05:02it's like
05:03I go to Tamil Nadu
05:04I interact with the Tamil media
05:05I go to Karnataka
05:06Yes
05:07and Malayalam
05:08Bollywood is another
05:09you know
05:10another industry
05:11and you know
05:11the only difference is
05:12you guys speak Hindi
05:14yeah that's true
05:16majorly we
05:17because our audience is such
05:18at the same time
05:19and Rudiul also was discussing
05:20oh I have to do
05:21whole interview in English
05:22I'm like
05:23what will happen to my Hindi audience
05:25you can speak to me in Hindi also
05:26I understand it
05:27but to speak to me
05:28it's a little difficult
05:29I have to come to Hyderabad
05:30Hindi
05:31Hyderabad
05:32and he will be
05:33grammatical mistakes
05:34if it's wrong
05:35forgive me
05:36it's all okay
05:37but Vishnuji
05:38at the same time
05:39call me Vishnu
05:40not Jeet
05:41save it for my father
05:43Vishnu
05:44you know
05:45because everything is very quickly
05:47a lot of films
05:48are also coming in
05:49together
05:50so do you find any competition
05:51at the same time
05:52Pan India
05:52or how did you plan your
05:53strategies in marketing
05:54for the same
05:55because otherwise
05:56for your industry
05:57it would have been different
05:58and now Pan India
05:59it's like
06:00there's a big problem
06:01there's a big challenge
06:02I'm saying the same thing
06:03over and over again
06:04in every different
06:05thing
06:06so that's the only
06:07that's the only tiring thing
06:09but it's also
06:10because you
06:10the questions
06:11you ask me
06:12have already been
06:14asked by people
06:15in Karnataka
06:15I know
06:16Malayalam
06:17Tamil
06:17Telugu
06:18but for you
06:19it's a fresh answer
06:20but for me
06:21I played it over
06:22a hundred times
06:22in Med
06:23so but the other
06:24than that
06:25it's all
06:26you know
06:27it's all a beautiful
06:28experience for me
06:29you know
06:30with the kind of respect
06:31and ordination
06:32the media here
06:33gives me also
06:34I'm blessed
06:35and I have to respect
06:36that too
06:37what learnings
06:39have you taken
06:40from the legacy
06:41of your father
06:42which has
06:42you know
06:43to be disciplined
06:44to be disciplined
06:45the only way
06:46discipline is the only way
06:47which will get you
06:48where you have to be
06:49and it's consistency
06:51consistent
06:52you have to be
06:53consistently
06:54true to your work
06:56true to your family
06:58discipline to your work
07:00and treat work
07:01like your religion
07:03and that's what's
07:04going to take you
07:05to the next step
07:06hmm
07:07to that
07:08Akshay Kumar
07:09he kiong
07:10from Bollywood
07:11because why not
07:12Akshay Kumar
07:13that is true
07:14we know
07:14we love Akshay Kumar
07:15but like what was
07:16your way
07:17because you did mention
07:18this during the launch
07:19also but I wouldn't
07:20you exclusively want
07:21to answer that
07:22see because for me
07:24when I look at
07:25Mr. Akshay Kumar
07:26I see that
07:27you know
07:28he would be my
07:28perfect Shiva character
07:29yes
07:30and he can portray
07:31the character of Lord Shiva
07:32beautifully
07:33and every writer
07:34has a vision
07:35and for me
07:36in my vision
07:37it was Mr. Akshay Kumar
07:38and that's why
07:39I reached out to him
07:40and in the very
07:41like initial series
07:42he was okay to it
07:43or he rejected also
07:44I guess you mentioned that
07:45The first two times
07:46because it was
07:47a character
07:48which was 10 days
07:49less you know
07:50less than 10 days
07:51and he's a huge superstar
07:52he's a huge superstar
07:53and why would he be
07:54interested to do a movie
07:55which is less than 10 days
07:57hmm
07:58so
07:59later I spoke to him
08:00I got him to
08:02I convinced him
08:03and then today
08:04it's history
08:05that's so true
08:06and I guess we all are excited
08:07ah
08:08ah
08:09ah
08:10ah
08:11ah
08:12in my mind
08:13okay
08:14that's happening here
08:15in India
08:16let me just you know
08:17take my moment
08:18and all of that
08:19ah
08:20so I guess
08:21ah
08:22that's so true
08:23at this interview
08:24down to earth
08:25how do you manage to be one
08:26please tell us the
08:27raz of that
08:28like you were very okay
08:29saying that on stage
08:30I don't know much Hindi
08:31and today also you mentioned
08:32in my interview
08:33that I will do a little
08:35you know a lot of people
08:36don't do that
08:37you have to be honest
08:38as long as they are honest
08:39and you know you tell them
08:40this is what I am
08:41hmm
08:42either they will like you
08:43or they won't like you
08:44hmm
08:45rather than trying to be someone else
08:46rather than who you actually are
08:47hmm
08:48that is wrong
08:49because the audience invests their time
08:51on me
08:52and you have to speak the truth to them
08:55to them
08:56ah
08:57to that
08:58ah
08:59what similarities and different things
09:00you find in Bollywood and your industry
09:01any
09:02the language
09:03the language is
09:04other than the language nothing else
09:05the cinema I guess also a bit different no
09:08south is more of very action oriented
09:11well
09:13but
09:14not really of that
09:15see you guys stop making movies like that
09:17you know
09:18look at Mr. Sunny Deol's movie
09:19yes
09:20look at Mr. Darmendra's movies
09:21those are the movies
09:22they were the mature real men
09:23you know
09:24you know
09:25back in the day
09:26but
09:27slowly you
09:28weaned away from them
09:29but that's probably because your audience was asking for something else
09:32something new
09:33even our audience was asking for something new
09:35it's a cycle of life
09:36we stopped making movies like that also
09:37but again we started making movies like that
09:39hmm
09:40and you know
09:41probably for
09:42there's always a
09:43you know
09:44different genre which gets attraction
09:46every 10 years or 15 years you keep changing the cycle of movies
09:50I was listening to one of the interview of Amir Khan recently
09:53where he mentioned that
09:54we have killed our own business
09:56khud se hi
09:57because
09:58we say that
09:59you know
10:00our film is coming in
10:01please purchase tickets
10:02buy tickets
10:03and come to theatres
10:04if people don't come
10:05and if
10:06it didn't do well
10:07the film goes to TV or television
10:09or to other platform
10:10it's like that
10:11so how you are selling the same product twice
10:16it doesn't make sense
10:17he was talking to Javed Akhtar Johan the same
10:19do you agree to this statement that you know
10:21the business of film is bit difficult to do
10:24yes
10:25in this time and age
10:27yes
10:28it is very very difficult in the film business
10:31but only people who are passionate about it can survive here
10:35yeah
10:36you know hook or crook this is my life this is what I know and this is what I will do
10:41only people like that can survive here
10:43hmm
10:44what's your favorite Bollywood film?
10:45quite a few my recent one is the one I saw was Chava
10:49okay
10:50it's 3-2
10:51okay
10:52I am quite you know I really like those
10:54uh
10:55uh
10:56uh
10:57uh
10:58uh
10:59uh
11:00uh
11:01uh
11:02uh
11:03uh
11:04uh
11:05uh
11:06uh
11:07uh
11:08uh
11:09uh
11:10uh
11:11uh
11:12uh
11:13uh
11:14uh
11:15uh
11:16uh
11:17uh
11:18uh
11:19uh
11:20hot
11:21Hek
11:22lots of films
11:23hmm
11:25a lot of films
11:26and I its difficulty to knew each and everyone of them but
11:27that's true
11:28I really liked a lot of them
11:29hmm
11:30and songs
11:31ah
11:32songs
11:33uh
11:34I'm going hold my thoughts on those
11:37there were golden era of songs here
11:40I don't think in the recent past none of the songs really stuck to me for too long
11:44that's gere but the Lottaji songs and Kishu's
11:47I am not too back also, in PK there were great songs, you know, and even, you know, I am a fan of, you know, a lot of Mr. Sanjay Lila Bansali's music also.
11:56Oh, wonderful, I didn't know that you were a fan of such songs.
12:00With that note, thank you so much, it was really lovely talking to you, I hope you enjoyed the conversation.
12:03This is me, Ursi Aadhi, my on-air name is Ursi Aadhi, otherwise I am Aadhi.
12:08So message to people, because of course, we want to see you more and more, and I guess, after this film,
12:14I would love to have you in Bollywood with a lot of projects at the same time.
12:19Thank you, thanks a lot.
12:20I am also, you know, praying and hoping, you know, the Hindi speaking audience and the Hindi movie loving audience
12:28also bless us for our effort and devotion we put up in Kannapa.
