Kalki 2898 AD: Nag Ashwin lists his favourite scene from the film and it features Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone in a still from Kalki 2898 AD
Filmmaker Nag Ashwin's recent sci-fi Kalki 2898 AD has been getting a lot of love from the audience ever since its release on June 27, 2024. While everyone has picked favourite characters and moments from the film, a clear fan favourite is a scene near the interval that features Deepika Padukone.
The scene has Sumathi (Deepika Padukone) protecting her pregnant belly and braving through a tunnel with fire all around her.
The director, while speaking to India Today, has called it his favourite scene from the film and stated how it was shot in a hurry.
Talking about the fire sequence, Nag said, "That is one of my favourite scenes; I think maybe the most favourite scene. But the way we shot was so hurried. We were shooting three setups that day and Deepika had to leave bya certain flight. It usually happens that some of the most important or magical things in the film happen by chance or in a hurry. And this is what that was. And, but just watching it in that hurry, in that rush and everything, when you just reach the monitor and you see Deepika walking through that particular tunnel in that fire, I just knew this was going to be special.”
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The director praised Deepika and said, “It was a sort of leap of faith. It was the sort of walking and surrendering to a larger power at play. It was a reference of the birth of Krishna. And it was how there was a leap of faith taken by Vasudeva. It was all of that… Deepika is a super-smart actor. You just need to give her a little and she knows what the brief is. I genuinely thought that the final pose that she holds at the end of that tunnel, when the interval is about to happen, felt like such a strong visual for me.”
Kalki 2898 AD made Rs 95.3 crore (above Rs 900 million) on its opening day, and went on to collect ₹414.25 crore (Rs 4 billion) in India in its first week.
In the film, Prabhas plays a bounty hunter called Bhairava from Kashi, and Deepika plays a pregnant test subject called SU-M80 or Sumati, while Amitabh plays Ashwatthama from Indian mythology.
