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  • 6/21/2025
കണ്ണപ്പ സിനിമയിലെ മൾട്ടിസ്റ്റാർ കാസ്റ്റിംഗിനെ പറ്റി അക്ഷയ് കുമാർ | Akshay Kumar talks about the multi-star cast in Kannappa

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00:00Many stars feel insecure to play multi-stars, but you never feel that kind of insecure.
00:08In this movie, there are a lot of big stars like Prabhas and Mohalal Ji.
00:13So, what is the screen space you have and what is the experience you…
00:18I have no scenes with them.
00:20Okay.
00:21And I don't see a film how many stars are there.
00:25I see a film and I do a film because if I find the story interesting, that it should be told to the audience.
00:32And it doesn't matter if there are seven heroes also.
00:36I have done many, many films which have many, many characters.
00:40For me, what matters is a hit film.
00:45What matters is a story which has to be narrated to the audience.
00:49That's what matters.
00:51It's never about what is my role.
00:54No.
00:55Sir, since you both acted together, how do you complement each other and what is the observation about each other, sir?
01:00So, my observation about Vishnu is that he is very focused.
01:06Right.
01:07He is hands down with all the work from being a producer to being an actor.
01:13Everything, he himself does it.
01:15I think editing also as he is rightly saying it.
01:18Right.
01:19He has been doing it, songs, recording, everything.
01:24He could easily sit down and relax, but he himself has done it.
01:28So hats off to him to have one focus.
01:31And he has been with this film, Kanappa, since how many years now?
01:35Last 10 years.
01:36Last 10 years.
01:37Right.
01:38And in between, how many films have you done?
01:40Six, seven films.
01:42Eight films.
01:43Eight films.
01:44Eight films.
01:45Eight films.
01:46Seven movies.
01:47Eight films.
01:48So his focus on this film has been extraordinary.
01:50So that's what I've seen about him.
01:52See, for me, when I was watching Mr. Akshay Kumar, the earlier question also what you had asked?
01:58you know, when you had asked, how did he prepare for it? You know, that was the only similarity
02:06which I feel, you know, there are a lot of similarities between my father and him in terms
02:12of thing. Father is known to be a very strict disciplinarian and, you know, respecting time.
02:18The same thing I saw, Mr. Akshay Kumar is, he respects time and automatically everything falls
02:25in place. And I asked my father one day, you know, so, you know, you gentlemen know about
02:31the characters. So, there was one movie I said, I sat him on. So, what did you, how did you
02:36prepare for that role? He said, I don't know. I just put the makeup on. I went to the location
02:42and I said, this is how this guy is going to do. And I do that. Let it be one of his biggest
02:47blockbusters or everything. That's what I felt like. The same thing which I noticed, Mr. Akshay Kumar
02:54knows that. I saw him in his house and I met him at, you know, the hotel. We were just talking
02:59casually. Then, of course, you see him in many a things. But the minute he put on the makeup
03:04and he came on over there, I don't think he realizes it. Right. He's a different person.
03:10You know, he, you know, a lot of people, when you think that, you know, I have, this is how
03:14Lord Shiva would have behaved. So, you know, they'll be stiff or they'll be. I saw the way I wanted
03:21Mr. Akshay Kumar exactly like how Lord Shiva would be there. I don't think he will realize
03:27that. But when I saw in the film, you know, his body language, everything, you know, it
03:31came on like that. And one thing which I learned from him is that you commit to something,
03:37give 100%. Now that's it. Now I'll talk with the producer's hat about Mr. Akshay Kumar. They
03:45first said he comes works only for eight hours. Everybody was like, okay, only comes eight hours
03:51and all that. We were like, okay, done. He's coming for eight hours. We'll do. So we did our
03:54homework because we are not used to doing eight hours. We are used to doing 10 hours. Sometimes
03:59they come and tell us heroes, you know, to us. You know, heroes are the least respected people on the
04:04location because the character actors, everybody else do two, three shoots, you know, in a day.
04:09The date issue is at least for us in Ayurveda. So we have to accommodate a lot, you know. But when
04:15he came on set, we thought, okay, when is he going to, you know, okay, we factored only six hours
04:20because he might eat or, you know, he might go to the relaxer. He went, he stood there on the
04:27stage where we were doing the thing. He got down only said, Vishnu will have lunch and he
04:34ate and in 25 minutes, he was back over there. So then we realized that, okay, he's not going to,
04:41he's not going to sit. So we said, everybody working, working food for everybody. There's no break.
04:46If he's sitting down, that's when everybody sits down. So for me, the dedication as an actor,
04:52I learned a lot. And then there's a Hindi version of it. So Hindi version, they wrote it a little
05:01grandic style, you know, more like, you know, very, very formal style.
05:04Because my director has a grip on Mahabharata and everything. So, you know, he lived with that
05:10script for long. So next day, I was talking to Mr. Akshay saying that if it's too difficult,
05:15sir, you can tell us, we'll make it more colloquial and all this stuff. I said, no, no,
05:19I already sent the script to another gentleman, a veteran. And I took a few inputs from him. I'm game,
05:25I'm ready. I already know these things. So he did his homework. He came over there with the
05:30dialogues and everything. And the minute he started performing that, you know, for me,
05:35okay, this is my Shiva.
05:36Yeah.

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