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For two years, Rana watched war films and brushed up on history. “We haven’t been making historicals, especially war films. I can only remember classics featuring NTR in Telugu and the ones featuring Sivaji Ganesan in Tamil, like Veerapandiya Kattabomman and Karna. We learnt history and mythology watching such films. Magadheera had some amount of that period look,” he says.

Growing up reading books on Mahabharata and tales narrated through Amar Chitra Katha, Rana rues, “Some of my younger cousins don’t know history even to the extent I know. They haven’t read these books. And mainstream cinema has done nothing on this front. I remember a song from Rajinikanth’s Kuselan which asks ‘how do we know what Veerapandiya Kattabomman or Krishna look like; we know because of films’. This is true.

Rana Daggubati talks about the challenges of acting in two historicals, the genre’s revival and lessons from his late grandfather.

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