No one’s ever approached me to make an agenda film, says S S Rajamouli

 

New Delhi : Filmmaker S S Rajamouli’s “Baahubali” films and “RRR” have been blockbuster hits, but the director, who has often been accused of pandering to the majoritarian view, says he distances himself from “either Hindu or pseudo-liberal propaganda”.

In an interview with the US publication The New Yorker, the filmmaker took on questions related to the politics of his film, which is nominated in the best song category at the Oscars 2023 for “Naatu Naatu”.

He was asked whether there was any political pressure on him to tell certain kind of stories from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).