Apoorva Lakhia says Ram Charan doesn’t answer his calls anymore, recalls last time they spoke: ‘His wife always replies’

He continued, “I don’t know why. His wife replies, but he doesn’t. Maybe his number has changed.” Shedding more light on the situation, Apoorva said that he received a call from Charan while the actor was shooting in Ukraine, presumably for RRR. “He asked me what I was doing, I said I was working on my show. He wanted me to shoot some second unit action sequences, so I told him I’d get back to him. I was working on something so I couldn’t go, but that was the last time we spoke. He calls me randomly, but he doesn’t answer my calls. He must be busy. Whenever I’m in Hyderabad, his wife calls me over, and I go. But I haven’t gone in a while. When I went after Zanjeer didn’t do well, it was fine.”

Last week, the filmmaker had spoken about Zanjeer’s critical and commercial failure. He said that he’d been set up for success, so the reality of the film flopping came as a bit of a shock. “I had the biggest star cast, I had the biggest platform. It didn’t work. Getting Ram Charan, getting Priyanka, getting Sanjay Dutt… You name it, we had it. Maybe people didn’t like the hero, maybe it was the wrong time to introduce a South Indian star (in Bollywood). Now, if Ram Charan comes and does a film in Hindi, he’s rocking. It’s unpredictable, but the main thing is to believe in yourself,” he said.

Ram Charan has now set his sights on Hollywood, after attracting the attention of the West with RRR. He confirmed in several interviews that he’d taken meetings with Hollywood studios in the aftermath of the film’s success, and was present in the Dolby Theatre when the film won an Oscar for Best Original Song.