Puri’s first choice of Hero: Pawan Kalyan
Puri wanted to cast ‘Pawan Kalyan’ as Pandu gadu.
I can’t even imagine ‘Mahesh Babu’ as LIGER. Puri narrated Liger’s script to Mahesh and he said no.
Even Puri narrated Liger to NTR and luckily he said no.
A dream project of Puri, he only thought of Mahesh Babu as the lead and no one else. But Babu never finalized it.
Puri & Yash Jana Gana Mana rumors have stormed the internet. But it didn’t finalize.
Puri narrated Jana Gana Mana to Suriya & he liked it, but for some reason, the combo didn’t happen.
Thinking of NTR as iSmart Shankar is so weird.
Puri thought of making this movie with his son but eventually ended with Ustaad Ram Pothineni.
Puri wrote Businessman and narrated the script to Suriya, somehow the project didn’t happen
Sonu Sood as Pokiri, that’s some wild thought before even Pawan Kalyan, Sonu Sood was the first choice, he wrote Pokiri for Sonu Sood, luckily nothing happened.
Luckily Sumanth said no to this script as he felt it didn’t suit his body language.
Before Ravi Teja, Sriram is the initial choice to play the hero role. Luckily it didn’t happen and our Ravi Teja performed it like a king.