Baahubali hero Rana Daggubati goes wild in Haathi Mere Saathi

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Indian actor Rana Daggubati, who plays an eco-warrior in his new Man Vs Nature film ‘Haathi Mere Saathi’, believes that working on the project made him prepared for COVID-19 and taught him that you don’t need creature comforts to lead a peaceful life.  Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3sJGpWS   Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #UAE #RanaDaggubati #India

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00:00The only thing that you have with yourself is your creativity and what can keep you engaged the most.

00:05I think we find, understand now that time is fully in our control in terms of whatever we want to do,

00:11we should choose to live our life in that direction.

00:14And I think that's what's come.

00:16I think choices, right choices need to be made.

00:20We've globally always seen films like these that are animal relevant and I think every time we've seen them,

00:32we've seen them slightly more spectacle than nor real.

00:36Now our idea was to create something which is as real as possible.

00:41So we went right into the jungles, shot with a herd of 18 elephants in Thailand and that's how we filmed it.

00:49Everything that you see with the elephants is real, it's no visual effects whatsoever.

00:56When this film came to me, this is obviously after Bahubully and I was still somewhere in that size.

01:03And we did one look test which I thought I'll put out after the film's release which was a reject.

01:08When Prabhu reached out to us saying he wants to meet Rana,

01:13he actually had a picture, a picture of Charlton Heston from The Ten Commandments.

01:18And he said if Rana really becomes lean, he might look like this guy and that's why this is the guy I want.

01:25And to me I said okay now which is, it was a clear vision that he had saying this is,

01:30it was Moses from Ten Commandments right and for him it's like this is Moses of the jungle for him.

01:38So you needed to look that part unless only then I could play this.

01:43It underlines every single issue that you spoke about. I mean that's really what the story is.

01:48See I think today a bigger threat than any terror group or anything is really climate change that

01:53can just come and knock us out to the window in one shot right and thanks to this lockdown all

01:58of us I kind of understand if nature takes a toll we just can't do anything except sit at home

02:02quietly and not even meet the people we love like with that kind of a restraint.

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