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It's too early to call me a National star
It\'s too early to call me a National star. The phenomenal success of ‘Baahubali’, which has emerged as India\'s biggest blockbuster, has made its lead actor Prabhas realise something very important--that the success of any film should be attributed to its team and not to the star.
The phenomenal success of ‘Baahubali’, which has emerged as India's biggest blockbuster, has made its lead actor Prabhas realise something very important--that the success of any film should be attributed to its team and not to the star. "This success has taught me that a star alone can't be credited for a film's success, which is usually achieved by a team.
No star is bigger than the success of a film," Prabhas said. The success of the film belongs to every member of the team who worked tirelessly to ensure a smooth release. "Firstly, it's not easy to make a film on such a grand scale. The bigger challenge nowadays is to take a film to the theatres.
In our case, we didn't face any difficulty in releasing, which was only possible because of meticulous planning and team work," he said. Despite appreciations pouring in from all quarters for his performance, Prabhas doesn't consider himself a national star yet. "It felt nice when stars like Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan appreciated my performance.
Rajinikanth sir called and congratulated me. Such things have never happened before. I'm glad I'm popular, people recognise wherever I go, but it's too early to be called a national star," he said. Released in multiple languages, the film earned over Rs 600 crore at the ticket window and even successfully completed 100 days of run in select theatres in the country.
Prabhas admits the makers never anticipated this magnitude of success. "When a film of this scale is made, you want it to be a blockbuster because mere success won't help the producers recover money. What surprised us the most was that the film did extremely well in Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam too," said Prabhas, who'd like to thank Rajamouli the most for this success.
"If Rajamouli is the brain and heart of 'Baahubali', the producers are its skeleton, holding everything together and the fans are the blood. Rajamouli deserves all the laurels, but he's so modest that he diverts all of it towards his team," he said. Prabhas will start shooting for the second part in the instalment from November.
Before he goes to the sets, he will muscle up. "I've already started growing my moustache. Since my shoulder surgery, I haven't been in the best shape as I was advised not to work out. Now that I'm doing much better, I'll start gymming soon. I weighed around 95 kg in the first part, I have to maintain it and look muscular too," he said.
