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‘Kalki 2898 AD’ Director Nag Ashwin Reveals Plans for Part 2, Including an Epic Face-Off Between Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan (EXCLUSIVE)
'Kalki 2898 AD' director Nag Ashwin on crafting a sci-fi epic, Amitabh Bachchan vs. Prabhas and plans for expansion.
Amitabh Bachchan plays Ashwatthama, an immortal being from the era of Indian mythological epic “Mahabharata,” while Deepika Padukone portrays Sumathi, a character who is pregnant with the unborn Kalki, an avatar of Vishnu. The concept for “Kalki 2898 AD” began taking shape after Ashwin’s previous film “Mahanati” (2018), a biopic of 1950s/60s Indian actor Savitri, though he says the fascination with blending mythological elements and sci-fi had been percolating for years. “I’ve always wanted to make something that combines the ‘Mahabharata’ battles from old Telugu black-and-white films with worlds like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘X-Men,'” Ashwin tells Variety.
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