The James Cameron of Tollywood reflects on his family of filmmakers, helping to forge a pan-Indian cinema and bringing together two of India's biggest stars for what has proven to be one of India's biggest — and most acclaimed — blockbusters.
as a filmmaker with “a knack for maximalist action and imaginative set pieces, many of which are built around dynamic special effects and choreography” and by theas “a master of spectacle” and “one of his country’s preeminent powerhouse filmmakers,” he is the winner of three
National Film Awards, India’s equivalent of the Oscars, and is the highest-paid director in India — not least because three of his films are among the five highest-grossing in the history of Indian cinema, each of which, when made, was also the most expensive Indian film ever: 2015’s
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