Doing a multitude of roles, Nara Rohit has been into pushing the envelope. Although films like 'Savitri' and 'Raja Cheyi Vesthe' may have turned out to be duds, 'Jyo Achyutananda' and 'Appatlo Okadundevadu' brought out the fact that he is a votary of experimentation.

Upbeat about the success of Sagar Chandra's 'Appatlo Okadundevadu', Rohit says that he believes in content and nothing else. "People may feel that my role is not lengthy in the second half, but length doesn't concern me. It's the impact that Imtiaz Ali (the name of his character) has left that matters. I feel very proud about having played such a character," he quips.

He is happy as the film's presenter, too. "The content is so strong that it can be made into two parts. Each character can be shown to have a different intro episode. But we chose to tell it within that particular run-time. As for selling its remake rights, we are trying to take it to other languages," he says. Ask him if it will remade into Bollywood, comes the honest reply, "I am yet to make sense of what is happening here," he says, suggesting that he can't think of Bollywood at this stage.

The writer-director Sagar Chandra didn't buy into formula. "For three years, the film had been thought through. There was a stage when a heroine was mooted for my character, but the idea was dropped because it was seen as unnecessary," Rohit reveals.

Sri Vishnu's friendship is something he savours. The talented youngster, happily, has got his big break with 'AO'. "I am happy for him," Rohit avers.

After doing films in two shakes of a lamb's tail (well, Rohit had six releases in 2016!), the actor-producer now wants to go slow, at least in talking about his forthcoming releases! "My next release is 'Kathalo Rajakumari. Let me not talk about the other films. Not only audience, but I myself would get confused about the order in which they will be released. A film in the direction of Pawan Mallela will go on the floors in February," he says on a lighter vein.

But when heroes of his age are doing love stories, why should he busy himself doing experimental sutff? "It depends on the script. My next film is a love story, for that matter. If anyone can tell me doing which film will make me a star hero, I will do that film," he retorts, rightly suggesting that nobody can sift the wheat from the chaff.