Updated On: 09 November, 2024 07:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Raj & DK, directors of Prime Video’s Citadel: Honey Bunny, on how they turned the Indian version starring Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu into the global spy-universe’s desi origin story

A still from the series
In what’s obviously a happy serendipity, during the shoot of Russo Bros’ Citadel S02, off London—that we can’t talk about, given it’s still being shot—actor Priyanka Chopra steps out of a shower scene, greets us to mention about the Indian Citadel, Honey Bunny: “Oh, Varun Dhawan plays my dad [in the series]!”
We bring up this moment, during a chat with the Honey Bunny squad—directors Raj & DK (i.e. Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK), writer Sita Menon, and female lead, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, in London. They burst into a laugh. “And Samantha is Priyanka’s mother,” Sita says.