Saaho Update: Neil Nitin Mukesh Beat This Tamil Star To Be The Villian In Prabhas’ Film – Exclusive

Neil is one of the three villains in Prabhas' Saaho

Published: August 31, 2017 10:00 AM IST

By Smrity Sharma

Saaho Update: Neil Nitin Mukesh Beat This Tamil Star To Be The Villian In Prabhas' Film - Exclusive

Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor starrer action thriller Saaho has three villains right now! Neil Nitin Mukesh was the first one to join the cast and then Chunky Pandey and Jackie Shroff followed. However, while the other two baddies were brought on board as an afterthought post a story revision, we hear even Neil wasn’t the first choice for Saaho.

A source from the film revealed to us that before Team Saaho initiated talks with Neil, there was another South superstar being considered to play the antagonist opposite Prabhas. The source revealed, “Saaho is a highly stylized actioner and will see Prabhas in his stylish best. It therefore needed a villain to match up to Prabhas’ chutzpa. The team had zeroed in on the very classy and handsome Arvind Swamy.”

Talking about how Swamy fit the bill, the source said, “The fact that he is a known face to the Hindi-speaking audience as well was an added advantage since Sujeeth Singh wanted to create a Pan India appeal for the film.” However, the Tamil star had his dates packed with four pre committed projects in hand and therefore he couldn’t come on board, revealed the source. He could only devote dates by the end of the year and that would have sent Saaho schedule haywire since the shoot had to begun midyear. ALSO READ: Prabhas Learnt This Special Skill For The Next Schedule Of Saaho – Exclusive

That’s when Team Saaho once again began hunting for their stylish baddie and found one in Neil Nitin Mukesh. Even though Neil has never worked in A Telugu film before, we hear that the director Sujeeth was impressed with his negative roles in films like Players (2012), Kaththi (Tamil – 2014), and Wazir (2016). He has made a great choice there we think! Neil has been amazing while portraying a character with grey shade earlier and we are sure he’ll do justice to it! What do you think?

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