Director Teja has been critical about Telugu cinema. And he seldom praises a film or director or an actor. When he does, he does it honestly, genuinely. Now Teja is heaping praises on Rana’s latest offering Ghazi. While the film has been receiving accolades from various quarters already, Teja’s praises are certainly going to standout and expected to further boost the film.
In fact, Teja disliked Rana’s last film Baahubali. SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus had went onto be one of the biggest blockbusters in India and all-time highest ever collected film in Telugu. These didn’t deter Teja from criticising Baahubali openly. Expressing his “dislike” for Baahubali, in one of the interviews he openly said that none of them – whom he got in touch with – have said good things about Baahubali. This was very strong statement. But now Teja is lauding Ghazi.
“I rarely see Telugu movies. I avoid watching them as most of them are formulaic, stereotyped with same old chase scenes, fight scenes, love scenes and poor comedy tracks. Unless and until there’s very good talk, I won’t watch a Telugu film. Since I’m working with Rana for my next, when Rana had asked me to come for the premiere of Ghazi, I went dis-interestingly. But everything changed few minutes into the film. And I’m totally blown away with the film. I’m sure every audience going to enjoy the film. In my opinion, who doesn’t like this film is unfit to watch the films,” Teja shared.
After watching the film Teja has called TV9 saying that he’d interview Rana for the channel and director Krish joined them. Teja said that this is first time ever he is interviewing a celebrity and also quickly added that this would be the last time too.