18 years after starting her acting career, south actor Samyuktha is all set to make her Bollywood debut with Maharagni: Queen Of Queens, which also marks Kajol and Prabhu Deva’s onscreen reunion 27 years after Minsara Kanavu (also known as Sapnay in Hindi). The teaser of Maharagni featured Kajol in a never-seen-before-action avatar beating up bad guys and making an entry like a quintessential and larger-than-life south hero. The film will also see Samyuktha pack some solid punches.
Sharing an update on Maharagni, Samyuktha exclusively tells News18 Showsha, “We’ve been shooting part-by-part. They’ve wrapped up a schedule that included major portions of Kajol ma’am’s action sequences. Another schedule that included my introduction and some car chase sequences featuring me have also been wrapped. We had a blast! They got an action director from abroad and the way they planned everything was wonderful. I feel so grateful.”
While 95 percent of the film shoot is still pending, Samyuktha is thrilled that she already got the opportunity to film some scenes with Kajol and Naseeruddin Shah. So, was she nervous about the same? “If your co-stars are cool, good to talk to and ready to strike up conversations, it’s always nice. We had a photoshoot with all three of us and it was really fun!” she says.
The Bheemla Nayak and Vaathi actor lauds her senior co-actors for putting in the effort to make her feel comfortable. Sharing an anecdote, she remarks, “With Naseeruddin sir, I felt like I was interacting with my own grandfather (laughs). During the shoot, he was to hold a glass of wine and he began explaining to me how ‘daaru’ actually means medicine. Since he was freely talking to me, I could be myself. It was only when I took a step back and took a moment that I realised where I’m and who I was working with.”
She further adds, “Kajol ma’am was helping me on the side with cues when I was shooting for my close-ups. It was really lovely of her. I was tense not because of them but because I wanted to get my Hindi dialect right. They’ve a lot of experience and I didn’t want to give them that impression that I’m not prepared. I don’t know how but I pulled it off eventually.”
Samyuktha believes that a film like Maharagni will be trailblazing in many ways. “After I heard the story of Maharagni, the one major thing that our director (Charan Tej Uppalapati) and I sat down and discussed was how he wanted to present two women in action-packed avatars. The chat was all about why should boys have all the fun? Maharagni is a true-blue commercial film packed with songs and fight sequences. The action is being done by us. It’s very interesting to be a part of a film like this.”
Maharagni is being billed as a high-budget pan-Indian action thriller that will release in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam languages. It also stars Jisshu U Sengupta, Chhaya Kadam and Aditya Seal.
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