Rana Daggubati says he, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun give constructive criticism of each other’s films without any ego: ‘We’re running different races’

Rana Daggubati said, “We’re not running the same race. We’re running very different races. Everybody has a different cinema that they pick. Everybody has seen success in a very different form. What are we competing on? It’s a certain number at the box office. That is the only actual tangible thing. But there are so many other aspects we’ll be trying to work on.

“I’ll tell you about Allu Arjun because it’s a recent conversation. The conversation is, ‘What else could we do better in Pushpa 1 that we did not do?’ Like, you’re constantly breaking your own product. They meet months after the film is done, successful, not successful, but they’ll still be talking about where did we go wrong. Those are conversations that really help us grow very much.”

Rana Daggubati said once a film releases and is out in the world–say after a duration of 30-40 days– discussions about its making, outcome become “very productive”.

“We’ve been in this place for so long. I’m just not talking about the three of us. Whether I pick actors like Nani, Adivi Sesh, all of them who make cinema very different from each other. All of us have had that conversation at some point or the other in life.

“I remember, Adivi Sesh walked into my room in Goa when we were at the film festival. He said, ‘Why are you not doing enough films? I really like what you do, but you’re not doing enough.’ I said, ‘Okay, great, fine!’ He was like, ‘I’ll start writing for you. In one year, I’ll come.’ If you like somebody, that’s the energy you throw out at them,” he added.