Mumbai, Telugu star Nani clearly remembers how his love affair with Bollywood began. The actor, who is yet to star in a Hindi film, said he watched the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer “Agneepath” in childhood and then there was no looking back. “I’ve watched a lot more Hindi films than people who live here .
There are some amazing directors that I want to work with every time I see . I’m a huge fan of Bachchan sir. My interest towards movies and wanting to make a film.
.. “Then even with the performance, ‘Agneepath’ played a big role in the later part.
Like, when I wanted a certain intensity for the character...
I always looked for a script like ‘Agneepath’, that was one childhood thing for me,” Nani told PTI in an interview here. "Agneepath" featured Bachchan as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan, who sets out to avenge the death of his father and the injustices done to his family by becoming a part of the Mumbai underworld. The film not only turned the actor into a movie buff but also inspired him to pen a couple of stories, including a thriller, he said.
"My inspiration for the first film was ‘Agneepath’...
This is the first film which I wanted to make when I was an assistant director, which I’ve never made...
"I still have the story, and then I’ve two or three more stories, which have to be adapted to the current times. There are a couple of directors who I’ve worked with, who know the basic idea about it, they are always like, ‘Let’s do it’." The 40-ye.