Rana Daggubati says Hiranyakashyap will 'change the course of my life': Doesn’t matter how long...

Rana Daggubati is planning to adapt the comic Hiranyakashyap in a new film. The film has been in works for a long time and the actor has said that the time is needed to produce quality outfput. In a trecent interview, the Baahubali fame commented that the film will change his career and the future of filmmaking. 

Rana Daggubati says Hiranyakashyap is a story that needs to be retold 

Hiranyakashyap is a pan-India film, inspired by an Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comic, will see Rana Daggubati play the king from Hindu mythology. It is backed by his VFX and production company Spirit Media. Talking about the film to Film Companion, the actor emphasised on the need of the story being re-told to the newer generations. 

He said, “It was the first Amar Chitra Katha story, or the most palpable Amar Chitra Katha story that happened across the universe, right? And its mythology needs to be retold. It was told very well in the black-and-white era. So, we need to make sure we’re telling it differently and better. And how do we connect it to an audience from 0 to 80? Which the story already has done. So, work on that has been going on for a while. And I think we removed a sense of time from it. It doesn’t matter how long it takes to get done.”  

Rana Daggubati says Hiranyakashyap will change filmmaking

In the same interview, the actor heaped praises on Trivikram, who is writing the movie. He claimed that the writer has been working on the film in ‘bits and pieces’. He added, “There’s a team that is putting all of the stories of the Bhagavata Purana together. So, once you get in, it’s really a maze of things to do. And somewhere I feel that it will be a film that will change the course of my life and filmmaking for a long period of time. That’s really what we want to achieve with that film.”  

Hiranyakashyap will revolve around the titular mythological demon king and his relentless quest to annihilate beliefs and faith of the followers of Lord Vishnu. His son, Prahlad, however, was a Vishnu devotee. 

(With inputs from PTI)