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Jr NTR, who is all set to offer his 30th film to his audience after delivering massive hits in the past including RRR, recently shared how he deals with the baggage of the brand NTR and what his fans expect of him. In a recent interview, the Devara star revealed how things completely changed for him as an artist after the birth of his son Abhay. Similarly, Alia Bhatt, who is gearing up for the release of Jigra, revealed, how the birth of Raha has changed her as a person, claiming, Jigra came to her at the time when she was feeling a similar situation in real life–of protecting her child.
In a recent conversation with Karan Johar, talking about the baggage, Jr NTR said, “It is very natural for an actor to feel the baggage”. He explained, “The moment you start calculating Image versus Want, they don’t gel together. I have seen this multiple times in my career. I have said this several times.”
He further recalled, “There was this point where this whole image and want of fans–what they want–were very strenuous for me as an actor. I just couldn’t think straight. It was at this time when Abhay happened–my first child–and something about the experience of being a father made me become naïve all over again. I think for an actor, the most important thing is that how do you become naïve, how do you disown or unlearn things because at that moment, when you have to perform, I don’t think you need to experience it. For that, I think there needs to be a lot of naivete in an actor and that comes only when you like just take things off your brain.”
He added, “I wanted Abhay to call me ‘Nana’ (Dad). So that urge in me, somewhere took the whole NTR image away from me. And I said ‘Wow, this whole thing has just gone from my head’. So I thought, what if I start try to incorporate it into my movies. That’s when my journey started as an actor. I opened up as an artist. That made it easier for me to understand myself more as an actor. So in my mind, it was always like, ‘If I am leaving the house, I need to have some exciting factors to motivate me. Because at home, I already have my exciting factors–Abhay and Bhargav. What is more exciting than them? And my movies are the result. If I don’t find anything exciting, I will rather sit at home, I don’t need to work.”
Alia Bhatt, who welcomed her daughter Raha in 2022, opened up about her experience as a mother and shared how it changed her as a person. She told Karan Johar, “When I signed Jigra, I think I was in my tigress mood. I was in my most protective avatar–like no one come near her. That was the energy. That’s why I always say destiny, luck, life has so much to play in things going a certain way for you. Forget the fate of Jigra, the fact that it came to me also, I was like, ‘Wow, what is the timing of this?’ that I am feeling this way and it came, and it had all of those things laced over it.”
She added, she is not the Alia she was before the birth of her child. She said, “I don’t want to be the same person. Life has so much more meaning and I feel like actors can get really self-obsessed if they constantly keep thinking about themselves. Now, when there’s another being in your life, suddenly, in my head, it’s like ‘Raha, Raha, Raha, and Alia is fine’, she comes in and out, but the focus is on her and that feeling of nurturing is something that will never change.
Alia Bhatt’s Jigra and Jr NTR’s Devara will clash at the box office on September 27.
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