Director Harish Shankar is a self-proclaimed fan of Pawan Kalyan. He is first a PK fan and then a filmmaker. Raining praises on Pawan, the Gabbar Singh director has shared an interesting and short memoir which he had with Pawan Kalyan.
“This is after the super success of Gabbar Singh. I’ve met Pawan Kalyan garu and asked him to give an interview or promote the film by doing a success event to make the film bigger success. Kalyan garu had told me then, ‘Success doesn’t leave you calm. It makes you pride and it wants you to show it off to the world. It may make you do mistakes. When you get a big success, you need to be more responsible’,” Harish Shankar shared.
He added it further. “Even then I wasn’t convinced with Kalyan gari words and I was trying to persuade him. I was asking him to give a joint interview with me. He asked me then, ‘Is the film successful?’ I had told him, ‘Yes, it’s a big success.’ Then he had told me again, ‘If it is successful, why do we have to be seen? If my film is successful, I’ll just walk away as if it’s not my own.”
Harish said that Pawan Kalyan’s words have inspired him to keep the dialogue in DJ : ‘Manam Chese Panilo Manchi Kanipinchali Thappa, Manishi Kanipinchakkarledu’.
Harish showed his gratitude to hero Ravi Teja who had given him the first opportunity as director. Harish even recalled his first tryst with Bunny when he had watched Arya in Rajahmundry while working on the film Naa Autograph. He said he hadn’t slept that night thinking whether he would able to work with the hero (Allu Arjun), producer (Dil Raju) and music director (Devi Sri Prasad).
“Today, I’m working with all the three people. If you have a strong will, you’ll definitely make it happen,” Harish concluded. He said he would wait for a call from Pawan Kalyan to direct him again.
