Father sentiment: Pawan then, NTR now

Speaking at the pre-release event of ‘Aravindha Sametha’, NTR choked with emotion remembering his father, who had died on August 29 in a ghastly road accident.

“This is my 28th film.  In no previous film did I ever lit a fire to a father’s funeral pyre.  Coincidentally or otherwise, for the first time in a film, I had to lit fire to my father’s pyre.  (As he did in real life),” NTR began saying.

Just like NTR has referred to a funeral scene in his film, Pawan Kalyan too spoke of a funeral scene in one of his films while speaking at the pre-release event of ‘Katamarayudu’ last year.  “In ‘Suswagatam’, when the father’s character dies, the son realizes the importance of his father.  I have always been a responsible son.  I cried for real while filming for the climax.

I did that scene by slapping my cheeks hard some 40 times.  My head was paining.  I couldn’t control my tears even after that scene was finished.  ‘What if my father dies in real life?’ I thought to myself. Years later, when my father died during the making of ‘Jalsa’, I didn’t cry.  Because I had already cried so much!” the Jana Sena leader said.