Rana Daggubati: Indian mythologies written at massive scale can put Game of Thrones to disgrace

Actor Rana Daggubati on Saturday mentioned Indian initiatives can go international if the makers concentrate on “local” tales that are distinctive to the nation. Daggubati, the star of blockbusters just like the Baahubali franchise and the political thriller Nene Raju Nene Mantri, mentioned even when the nation have been to have a global-hit present like Netflix’s Money Heist, it may possibly work if it has native components woven into it.

“India is a land of stories with the greatest mythologies ever written. And they’ve been written at a scale that puts Game of Thrones to shame in that sense. There’ll be two-three directions that’ll automatically take us (global). Because it’s our culture that we are representing. So if it’s Money Heist, let’s rob stuff the way Indians would… It’ll still be our culture and our ethic that would make that story go places,” he mentioned.

Rana Daggubati was a part of a panel dialogue to rejoice two years of streaming platform SonyLIV’s relaunch. He was joined by filmmakers Hansal Mehta, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Nikkhil Advani, Applause Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair and Danish Khan, Business Head of Sony LIV, Sony Entertainment Television & StudioNext.

“What will take us to the global audiences? Stories which are extremely local, things that happen in different parts of the country, which are new to the world and unique to us,” he added.

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The 37-year-old actor is producing a number of exhibits for SonyLIV, together with Case Files of Hemanth Rao, which is in pre-production. Daggubati, who not too long ago completed filming his crime-drama sequence Rana Naidu for Netflix, mentioned he’s now making an attempt to know the method of long-form storytelling.

“We have been a film company for about 50 years. Our mind still is of three-hour storytelling. I just completed finishing another show for another network. We are still understanding what long-form writing means because we didn’t live through a premium moment of TV,” he added.