Actor Teja Sajja, who has been getting a lot of good response to his recently released film ‘HanuMan’, has shared that his favourite homegrown superhero films are ‘Koi Mil Gaya’, it’s sequel ‘Krrish’ and the Malayalam film ‘Minnal Murali’.
Teja said that he is a “huge fan of ‘Koi Mil Gaya’”. He may not have watched many superheroes from international cinema but he takes immense pride in the homegrown superheroes.
He said, “I’ve not watched many English superhero films. Marvel and DC never clicked with me because of the lack of cultural understanding. But I love ‘Koi Mil Gaya’. I love ‘Minnal Murali’ also. The other day I was in Kochi talking about ‘Minnal Murali’. Tovino Thomas sir was also there, he said he also knew about ‘HanuMan’ and he wants to do something for ‘HanuMan’. I hope we can do something together.”
Talking about the unified force that Indian cinema has become with the lines between different film industries in India blurring, the actor said that best is yet to come for Indian cinema.
“We are always better than yesterday. Tomorrow will be brighter and better. That is what we aspire for. It has just begun. The biggest example is Shah Rukh Khan sir collaborating with Atlee sir, and Prabhas sir collaborating with Prashanth Neel sir from Karnataka. They collaborated with Prithviraj Sukumaran sir from Malayalam as well.”
“We have to give huge respect to both stars, Prithviraj sir in Malayalam, is a huge star. Prabhas sir, who is a huge star himself. There’s ‘Kalki’ coming up and ‘Thalaivar 170’. These are the kinds of collaborations that we are trying to launch because there are no more boundaries of languages, no more boundaries of cultures. It is just Indian cinema against the world cinema. That is an aspiration to dream about.”
Teja said that he is a “huge fan of ‘Koi Mil Gaya’”. He may not have watched many superheroes from international cinema but he takes immense pride in the homegrown superheroes.
He said, “I’ve not watched many English superhero films. Marvel and DC never clicked with me because of the lack of cultural understanding. But I love ‘Koi Mil Gaya’. I love ‘Minnal Murali’ also. The other day I was in Kochi talking about ‘Minnal Murali’. Tovino Thomas sir was also there, he said he also knew about ‘HanuMan’ and he wants to do something for ‘HanuMan’. I hope we can do something together.”
Talking about the unified force that Indian cinema has become with the lines between different film industries in India blurring, the actor said that best is yet to come for Indian cinema.
“We are always better than yesterday. Tomorrow will be brighter and better. That is what we aspire for. It has just begun. The biggest example is Shah Rukh Khan sir collaborating with Atlee sir, and Prabhas sir collaborating with Prashanth Neel sir from Karnataka. They collaborated with Prithviraj Sukumaran sir from Malayalam as well.”
“We have to give huge respect to both stars, Prithviraj sir in Malayalam, is a huge star. Prabhas sir, who is a huge star himself. There’s ‘Kalki’ coming up and ‘Thalaivar 170’. These are the kinds of collaborations that we are trying to launch because there are no more boundaries of languages, no more boundaries of cultures. It is just Indian cinema against the world cinema. That is an aspiration to dream about.”
