Baahubali's Kalakeya was also approached by filmmakers in Kollywood and Bollywood.
Prabhakar is looking forward to positive roles, after playing Kalakeya in Baahubali. “I got plenty of offers, but all of them were negative, which I don’t want. I do negative characters, but all of them are routine. At the same time I want to prove my acting skills, so I’m looking for a few positive roles,” says Prabhakar.
Baahubali released in last June and Prabhakar took a long break because of the same reason. “When I was looking for a change, M.S. Raju garu approached me for the role of a bus conductor in Right Right.
Initially they had doubts about whether I could carry off the emotions, but after I met them, they were confident about me. The film is complete and it will be another good film in my career,” adds the actor.
Interestingly, Prabhakar speaks the Srikakulam slang in the film. He is originally from a Telangana village and mostly speaks in Telangana dialect.
“But as an actor I should do all characters, and I worked really hard to get the dialect right,” he says, adding, “I practiced the dialogues with the help of an assistant director.”
He has meanwhile signed Oxygen, Avu Puli Madhyalo Prabhas and a Malayalam film. “The Malayalam film also stars Mohanlal,” he says, adding that he met director Unni Krishnan recently at a festival in Kochi and they became friends.
The actor had got an offer in Tamil too but couldn’t accommodate the dates.
“It was a very good character and Dhanush was the lead. It was a very good opportunity for me but I couldn’t accommodate dates for it,” he says.
He has got calls from B’wood too. “In between I got an offer for a Hindi film, but I was already committed to a few Telugu films,” he says.
