After Saaho, Prabhas to debut in Bollywood as a romantic hero

After Baahubali’s glowing success, every industry has their sights set on Prabhas, who became an international sensation after the two films. Soon after the release of the SS Rajamouli franchise, Prabhas signed Saaho, and that was touted to be his Bollywood debut. However, Prabhas clarified, that it is not the case, as Saaho is a trilingual film

In an interview to Times of India, Prabhas spoke about his Bollywood debut, which is going to be a romantic film. “I watch a lot of Hindi films. I live in Hyderabad, where 60 per cent of the people speak Hindi. I am getting good offers from Bollywood. I had okayed a script three years ago. It is a love story that I will do post Saaho,” he said.

He also spoke fondly of filmmaker Karan Johar. “I made a good association with Karan Johar. If I want anything, I think I can ask him. He has helped us a lot. In fact, I met some actors (from Bollywood) in Karan’s house. They were all very chilled out,” said the actor.

It would be interesting to see Prabhas abandon his fiery action look, and take on a romantic avatar. In fact, he is quite keen on doing such a role, and says that every actor would want to move out of the shell they’ve created for themselves. “In Hollywood, the guy who plays Batman and Spiderman also plays normal characters. The biggest stars in the world want to play different characters. We can’t give the excuse that because an actor played a superhero in his previous film, his next one won’t work. If the script is not good, the film will not work. Instead of saying that the script does not work, we say that the actor didn’t work in the role. That is the problem. I was doing a lot of action films and people loved me in those movies. After that, I did a small love story and it was a hit as the script was good. People forgot that I had done so many action films and started liking me in the love story.”

Meanwhile, Prabhas is in Los Angeles, shooting for Saaho. He will soon be joined by Shraddha Kapoor. Saaho is expected to hit the screens this year.