After the two Baahubali films that broke the box office and Saaho in 2019, Prabhas is returning to the big screens with a period romantic drama Radhe Shyam. 

Directed by Radha Krishna Kumar, Radhe Shyam also stars Pooja Hegde and recently, its new trailer was released at an event in Mumbai. 

The trailer launch event saw the presence of Prabhas, Pooja Hegde, Radha Krishna Kumar along with the film’s producers and sound designer Resul Pookutty, who won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire. 

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During the media interaction, he talked about the movie's comparisons with Hollywood blockbuster Titanic and said, “Actually, I shouldn’t say this, it’s very pompous to say, but when I actually saw the first cut I told Radha Krishna Kumar. I call him India’s James Cameron. Radha James Cameron is what I generally call him in messages. I said, ‘The climax (of Radhe Shyam) is bigger than Titanic.’ The way it has been done. That’s what I genuinely felt. So, it was a huge challenge for me.” 

He further added, “It’s a love story, Titanic was also a love story. There will be comparisons. But don’t compare it. I am saying, this (Radhe Shyam) is more of a La La Land. For me, personally speaking.” 

He further compared Prabhas to the biggest of the Hindi film stars and said, “He comes to the sets and says, ‘Don’t treat me like Baahubali. In this film, I am different. So, treat me like this character.’ Very rarely you have actors from North speaking like that. I am very very proud of him. Barring a few actors from North, they see only themselves and here I see a pan-India actor much bigger than anybody you can name comes to the studio listens to the sequence and says that ‘Don’t treat me like this, this is wrong. Treat me like the character that I am in this film.’” 

He also said that actors from the North should learn this quality from Prabhas. 

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Radhe Shyam is slated to release on March 11 in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. 

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