Is his new film a love story? “Come on! I can’t do a love story at this age. However, I’d prefer doing a mature romance,” he avers, choosing to call his new film a “celebration of friendship,”he said.

Nagarjuna’s also been missing from screen for a while. Has that been by choice? “I’ve always had one release a year,” he reasoned, adding that he’s always had “other business interests for a while now. I was waiting for a good script,” he elaborated.