The film will hit the screens in multiple languages next year. The biggie is touted to be a sci-fi thriller with fantasy elements and it features Deepika Padukone as the leading lady. This, interestingly, was the second Telugu remake of Don as the Salim and Javed's film had previously been remade as Yugandhar with the legendary Sr NTR in the lead.Ĭoming to the present, Prabhas is set to act alongside Big B in Project K, directed by Nag Ashwin of Mahanati fame. While the film didn't do too well at the box office, it found a cult following on digital platforms after the release of Baahubali. Its cast included Anushka Shetty, Hansika Motwani, Jayasudha and Krishnam Raju. The film was directed by Meher Ramesh and catered to the urban mass audience. It revolved around what happens when a simpleton pretends to be a gangster to help the police.
In 2009, he was seen in the action-packed Billa, a remake of Big B's yesteryear classic Don. While nearly everybody knows about his rise to fame with the Baahubali saga, not everyone may realise that he shares a unique connection with Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan. Enraged at being slighted by Rashid, following the completion of the deal, Devil and his henchman Ranjith fight with Ranga.Prabhas is undoubtedly one of the biggest stars in the Telugu film industry and enjoys a strong fan following due to his charismatic personality. Ranga decides to pose as Billa to Devil and provides Russian explosives to an arms dealer Rashid, who insisted on dealing with Billa.
While escaping from Devil’s gang, he meets Officer Adithya, who apparently had the pen drive all along and strikes a deal with Ranga to get hold of Devil.Here it is revealed that Dharmendra is none other than the Underworld Crime Don Devil and he is the one who killed ACP Krishnamoorthy. He phones Dharmendra and asks him to meet at the Aerobridge. Unable to prove his innocence, he escapes from a police van.Ranga mentions a piece of evidence – the pen drive which may prove his innocence but the pen drive is nowhere to be found. He argues during interrogation that he is Ranga and not Billa to Dharmendra.Ranga finds the ACP’s body and the gun but is taken into the custody of the police team, now headed by Interpol Officer Dharmendra. A shootout occurs at the party and the ACP is secretly killed by Devil, leaving his gun behind.She challenges Ranga but in the fight, he accidentally kills her. Later before a party, Ranga secretly provides information to the ACP about a meeting of Billa’s network and Lisa, Billa’s girlfriend overhears his conversation.Since then, she begins to assist Ranga and the ACP in their mission and soon falls in love with Ranga. At this juncture, the ACP arrives and tells her that he is Ranga and not Billa.Ranga provides a pen drive with the secret information of the crime network to the ACP, but he is about to be killed by a woman named Maya because her brother Vikram as well as his fiancée Priya were killed by Billa.Slowly Ranga starts to learn about Billa’s gang and even speaks to Devil, Billa’s boss, on the phone. The ACP trains Ranga and sends him back to Billa’s gang as a person who has lost his memory.In return, he will make sure that the children Ranga adopted, Lakshmi and Sreenu, get a proper education in Hyderabad. He asks Ranga to infiltrate Billa’s gang by pretending to be Billa.The ACP keeps the death of Billa as a secret even from his fellow officers, and tracks down a look-alike called Swami Ranga, a petty thief based in Visakhapatnam. Interpol Officer Dharmendra is assigned to work with the ACP to capture the elusive Billa as no-one knows of Billa’s death.The ACP then secretly holds a funeral for Billa. During a chase with the police, Billa is severely wounded after an accident and dies in front of the ACP.Krishnamoorthy, an ACP working for the Interpol, has spent the last few years looking for Billa, leaving behind a life in India. The movie begins with an underworld don Billa hiding and operating out of Malaysia hiding from Interpol’s international criminal list.