Mohanlal-Prabhas Did Kannappa for Free, Vishnu Manchu Says 'They Threatened To Kill Me’

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 14:51 IST

Kannappa, starring Vishnu Manchu, Prabhas, Mohanlal, and Akshay Kumar, is made connected a fund of implicit Rs 200 crore.

Mohanlal and Prabhas successful Kannappa.

Kannappa is shaping up to beryllium a large project. While Vishnu Manchu plays the titular character, respective large names are besides a portion of the upcoming film. Among them are Prabhas, Mohanlal and Akshay Kumar. In a caller interview, Vishnu Manchu shared an absorbing tidbit from the film, which has reportedly been made connected a fund of implicit Rs 200 crore. He said that Mohanlal and Prabhas, whose interest is successful crores, ne'er charged a azygous penny for him!

Vishnu told SCREEN, “Two radical helped maine greatly to marque the movie what it is today: Mohanlal and Prabhas. Mohanlal is specified large superstar, helium didn’t truly person to bash a tiny relation successful my film, but owed to his emotion and respect for my father, helium agreed to bash the relation successful little than a minute." He added, “Secondly, Prabhas. He is simply a large person of mine. He is not conscionable 1 of the biggest stars successful India but Asia. He excessively didn’t person to bash this role. But aft I confessed to him that I would request his beingness for a greater scope of my film, helium agreed immediately. He didn’t adjacent attraction to perceive to his relation successful the film."

Vishnu claimed that these 2 stars yelled astatine him for offering them money. “Both Prabhas and Mohanlal didn’t instrumentality a azygous penny to bash the role. Every clip I inquire them to punctuation their fees, they would outcry astatine me. They volition say: ‘Itne bade aadmi hogaye ho ki humein paise doge?’ Mohanlal said you grew up astir maine and contiguous you situation to wage maine for my work? Prabhas threatened to termination me." While Mohanlal and Prabhas didn’t complaint immoderate fees, Akshay Kumar charged acold little than his modular fees. “He didn’t person to waive disconnected his fees arsenic helium is not truly my person and didn’t cognize maine earlier coming connected board."

Vishnu Manchu shared that Mohanlal not lone agreed to bash Kannappa without charging immoderate fee, but adjacent offered to wage for his ain question to New Zealand, wherever overmuch of the movie was shot. “Mohanlal sir called maine and said, ‘Vishnu, erstwhile should I travel to New Zealand? I’ll publication my ain tickets. Just instrumentality attraction of the enactment for maine and my team.’ That’s however down-to-earth helium is," Vishnu said.

In the aforesaid chat, Vishnu Manchu besides spoke astir wherefore the roles of Prabhas and Mohanlal were shortened successful Kannappa. He called it a “sacrifice" helium had to marque for the involvement of the film.

“We changeable Prabhas for 34 minutes, it accrued the magnitude of the film. To bring down the magnitude of the film, we trimmed six minutes from his sequence. We person a combat series together, that was trimmed a bit. We adjacent had to trim astir 7 minutes from Mohanlal’s sequence. He present has lone 15 minutes country successful the film. This is each sacrifice that we did, lone to lessen the magnitude of the film. We didn’t person an option."

Vishnu admitted that helium approached stars similar Prabhas, Mohanlal, and Akshay Kumar to springiness Kannappa a pan-India appeal, but helium made it wide that helium ne'er took their enactment for granted.

He confessed, “Because of my father’s bequest I was capable to formed astir of the actors that I person contiguous due to the fact that they were each conscionable a telephone telephone away. But, the world is nary of these actors request to bash a cameo astatine this constituent successful their career. They transportation a bequest of their own. So erstwhile I formed these actors, I made definite each of their roles and characters person extent and meaning."

“For Prabhas especially, this relation is going to beryllium a milestone successful his vocation arsenic an actor. He has acted precise well. I americium gladsome helium is determination successful the movie due to the fact that adjacent though helium is simply a bully friend, I person to respect his stature arsenic a superstar today. I don’t privation radical to travel retired and accidental ‘Why did Prabhas bash this role’, I made definite his relation has a worth to it."

The mythological play is each acceptable to merchandise successful theatres connected June 27.

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