Tejja Sajja reveals that the success of 'Hanu Man' made him confident that viewers were ready to watch 'Mirai'

Tejja Sajja

Teja Sajja's action-adventure thriller, Mirai, was just released in theaters and it is doing wonders at the box office.

The movie about a warrior charged with safeguarding nine sacred scriptures is the subject of the Karthik Gattamneni-directed movie. During a recent interaction with IMDb, Teja Sajja talked about his experience filming Mirai and what changed for him following the success of his most recent film, Hanu Man.

The actor while speaking of what the film means to global audiences said, “Mirai is predominantly an action adventure. It has a lot of fantasy and devotion. It’s about a boy who starts off from nowhere and how he gets to know his dharma and tries to stop Ashoka’s unknown nine from destroying the world.”

Revealing how the story came to him, Sajja said, “I finished shooting for Hanu Man and we were getting the post production done. At that point, Kartik sir had narrated the script to me and it was an instant yes. The film has something to cater for audiences across different age groups. The film is relevant across languages and it’s a very clean film. Action adventures are not very common in Indian cinema. So mixing that action, adventure with our histories and making a clean film, all these reasons at once, I just jumped into it.”

Talking about how the success of Hanu Man changed his work process, Sajja shared, “Hanu Man has given me a wider audience, a bigger platform, and a little more confidence that if we do something good, there are audiences across the nation, irrespective of language, who are ready to watch the film. That confidence has been built after Hanu Man. With respect to the difference between the two films, Hanu Man is very rooted whereas Mirai spans across countries. It has a lot of action, adventure and is created on that front. The one similarity would be the connection between our histories.”

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The actor while sharing the challenges he faced while shooting quoted, “Challenges were that I had to train, to look like a professional in the martial arts form. Whatever I was doing, I had to be quick, fast, and equipped with the right techniques to perform, that was the challenge. We consciously made an effort to do that kind of action in this film to make it look new. The only objective of mine and even the director was to make every experience look new and thrilling and showcase edge-of-the seat visuals.”

He also talked about how Indian films are similar with international ones. He quoted, “Indian films are not lacking anything, they are fantastic and at par with international films. With forthcoming films including that of S S Rajamauli sir and Mahesh Babu we’ll stand on par with international films very soon.”

Mirai is doing great collections at the box office and has crossed the massive Rs 100 crore mark worldwide within five days of its release.