When Prithviraj picked Rockybhai from airport as unit forgot him

 

Yash alias RockyBhai of KGF who came to shoot for a music video Spirit of Chennai was stranded at the airport as the film unit that was filming the video did not even known that there was an actor called Yash coming from Bangalore for the shoot. For the same shoot, Prithviraj had arrived at the airport . He came to know through the escort that took him the car about a Kannada actor Yash was waiting in the airport as logistic team of the shoot has not arranged for one. Prithviraj immediately asked the driver to go back to the airport and walked up to Yash and asked him to accompany him. Yash told him that a car was on the way but Prithviraj insisted and took him along to the hotel.

This happened in 2016 and producer of the music video was Actor `Chiyaan ' Vikram. It was about the Chennai floods 2015 and the unity of the citizens in tackling it. Many actors starting from Abhishek Bachchan -Suriya - Nivin Pauly took part.  Yash had just started work on KGF 1.

As Kannada film KGF is able to created a Pan Indian  film on a Rs 100 crore budget, the second or almost same ranked regional language film industry is Malayalam , in terms of box office returns. In many discussions as whether there is a director who has a mettle to created a KGF like mammoth film from Kerala, the first name that comes is Prithviraj.

Though Kerala film industry had has Rs 100 cr club films like Puli Murugan - Lucifer - Premam, Kurup , Kayamkulam Kochunni and Drishyam, none of them had a pan Indian appeal. Film industry watchers say that Malayalam film industry has many writers whose works can be a subject for Pan Indian appeal.

Prithviraj as a producer- distributor is by now a known name in Bollywood film circuit, He was sharing stage with Karan Johar at the KGF  2 function in Mumbai. Prithviraj is the distributor of KGF 2 in Kerala. In an interview, the actor  said that Pan Indian films do nt happen in Kerala, as after the completion, the discussion to dub it in other languages come. Nobody shoots with a Pan Indian audience and mainly for hte film to get noticed in Hindi heartland, one needs people like Karan Johar and similar big names to take it across widely.

KGF 2 beats Beast on advance booking except Tamil Nadu

Exhibitors in Tamil Nadu are happy with the advance booking of Beast but in Kerala- Karnataka and AP/ TS , KGF shows a marked difference. As expected, KGF 2 is creating a storm at Hindi advance booking counters that opened on April 7th. 80 % of the occupancy in Tamil Nadu is booked as per reports from exhibitors of Beast in Tamil Nadu. This on expected lines and close to 800 theaters are screening the film and around 250- 300 are screening KGF 2. Big screens in multiplexes in TN are for Beast. KGF 2 getting 200 - 300 screens for a start is good enough for S R Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures , distributor of KGF 2. Dream Warrior had distributed Karthi's Kaithi opposite Bigil with limited screens and made money as the film got postive reviews continued to hold against Bigil. The box office of Kerala shows a trend of KGF 2 being scheduled for fan shows starting from 4 AM on April 14th. By going with the advance booking numbers, trade says that KGF 2 on opening day will cross the entire collection of KGF 1 done in it's entire run. Beast as expected for a Vijay film is doing the business it expected. In Karnataka, almost 90 % of the screens are with KGF 2 as the Telugu- Hindi- Tamil prints with the original Kannada version will be playing in biggest box office area of Bengaluru. Beast opening is considerably dimmed.In AP/ TS, too the advance booking for KGF 2 is bigger than Beast. Beast team director Nelson - music director Anirudh and Pooja Hegde took part in a press meet to promote the film. In Bollywood, the trade is watching whether KGF 2 will beat RRR opening. By the rate the booking is moving, KGF might not reach RRR opening . The opening might be anything around Rs 15 crores. Beast in comparison might get a opening of Rs 3 crores, Sadly nobody is talking of Shahid Kapoor Jersey, a straight Hindi film , remake of Telugu film with Pushpa hero Allu Arjun's father as co- producer.