 "'Nagarjuna slapped me 15 times, I had marks on my face,' reveals this Bollywood actress")
There was a film back in 1998 called Chandralekha, which brought together the veteran actor Nagarjuna and Isha Koppikar back and there was a scene where Nagarjuna had to slap the actress. And she has revisited that scene in her recent interview with Hindi Rush.
The actress revealed, “I got slapped by Nagarjuna. I was a fully committed actor that I want to perform in a real, method way. So when he was slapping me, I couldn’t feel it.”
She added, “This was my second film, so I told him ‘Nag, you really slap me.’ He said, ‘Are you sure? No, I can’t.’ I said, ‘I want that feeling. I am not feeling it right now.’ So he slapped me, but softly.”
“In an attempt to look angry, I got slapped 14 times,” continued the actress.
Is there a formula to make a blockbuster pan-India film? Superstar Nagarjuna feels there is only one ingredient of success: Stay rooted to your native language and the honesty will transcend language barriers. Nagarjuna, who has headlined some of the biggest Indian blockbusters over the decades, says the pan-India success of Telugu films like Pushpa and Baahubali, as well as Kannada actioner KGF, points to the fact that the Indian audience wants their heroes to be larger than life.
At the WAVES 2025 summit, Nagarjuna said there is a reason why Allu Arjun’s Pushpa franchise earned more in Hindi than Telugu, as the audience in the North was craving to see stars in a tentpole movie set-up, like the Sukumar directorial or Yash’s blockbuster KGF series.
The superstar was speaking on the panel discussion ‘Pan-Indian cinema; myth or momentum?’ and was joined by actors Anupam Kher, Khusbhu and Karthi.
Nagarjuna said Indian films have their own, unique storytelling DNA, which one must be proud of.
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