Overview
- Priyanka Chopra confirmed she will record her own Telugu dialogue for Mandakini, telling fans, “Yes I am. Practising hard.”
- The title and first teaser premiered at Hyderabad’s GlobeTrotter event, introducing Mahesh Babu’s Rudhra in a striking bull-riding, trishul-wielding look.
- S. S. Rajamouli says Varanasi was shot natively in IMAX 1.43:1, calling it a film created for the format “in the truest sense.”
- The cast has begun early international promotion, with Chopra sharing BTS rehearsals in Telugu and calling Mahesh Babu and Prithviraj Sukumaran “legends.”
- Reports place the release around Sankranti 2027, with Rajamouli also highlighting a Mahesh Babu Lord Rama sequence that took 60 days to film.