Sreenivas Bellamkonda: To me, Chatrapathi is not a remake

Updated On: 28 April, 2023 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma

As he leads Hindi remake of Rajamouli’s Chatrapathi, Sreenivas asserts movies should be viewed as Indian offerings instead of being divided on language grounds

Sreenivas Bellamkonda in Chatrapathi

With Bollywood churning out remakes of south movies, Telugu actor Sreenivas Bellamkonda too appears to be making most of the trend. He is set to make his Hindi debut with Chatrapathi, a remake of SS Rajamouli’s 2005 action film of the same name. Tell him that adaptations have more than their share of naysayers, and Bellamkonda offers a different view. “You need to find content that will excite the audience. To me, Chatrapathi is not a remake. [The makers] are calling it a remake for publicity sake, because the names of Rajamouli and Prabhas work well. But here, I rewrote everything in Hindi; my dialogues have been changed. I have gone through a more elaborate process than for a brand new film,” states the actor, who is joined by Nushrratt Bharuccha in the film.

SS Rajamouli