Prabhas, Mohanlal Did Vishnu Manchu's Kannappa For FREE: ‘Itne Bade Aadmi Ho Ki Humein Paise Doge?’

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 14:52 IST

Actor-producer Vishnu Manchu reveals Prabhas and Mohanlal refused outgo for Kannappa.

Prabhas, Mohanlal are a portion of Kannappa.

Bringing unneurotic a almighty formed for a big-budget movie is nary mean feat —especially erstwhile you’re competing with pan-India stars. But Telugu actor-producer Vishnu Manchu has managed conscionable that with Kannappa, his astir ambitious movie to date. While helium leads the film, it’s the summation of superstars Prabhas, Mohanlal and Akshay Kumar that has generated large buzz crossed the country.

In a candid interrogation with SCREEN, Vishnu shared that helium was good alert his solo marketplace wouldn’t beryllium capable to warrant a task of this scale. So, helium turned to stars with wider entreaty — not conscionable to elevate the film, but to lucifer its monolithic budget. Interestingly, though Kannappa is being made connected a reported fund of implicit Rs 200 crore, Vishnu didn’t walk thing to bring Prabhas and Mohanlal connected board.

“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," Vishnu revealed.

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, who wrote the publication astir 10 years ago, said it yet became a world acknowledgment to the backing of his begetter Mohan Babu and the unwavering enactment of his 2 adjacent friends. But their generosity extended beyond words—both refused to instrumentality immoderate fees.

“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."

As for Akshay Kumar, who besides plays a portion successful Kannappa, Vishnu admitted that dissimilar the others, the Bollywood prima wasn’t a idiosyncratic person — but helium inactive slashed his interest significantly.

“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."

With a imagination script, household support, and goodwill from immoderate of India’s biggest names, Kannappa is shaping up to beryllium a existent passionateness task for Vishnu Manchu.

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