It’s time for Nagarjuna to pay back to the industry. The top Tollywood actor, who was seen in Tamil films like ‘Idhayathai Thirudathey’, ‘Ratchagan’ and the recent ‘Payanam’, will start a film institute soon.

Nagarjuna, who hails from the legendary Akkineni family, feels that the south Indian film industry lacks a proper training centre, where aspiring talents would get proper guidance and coaching.

He says that the institute to be floated by him would be on the lines of the American Film Institute, New York University, and the University of Southern California. “I would like to ensure that our youngsters are getting proper training,” he says.

On ‘Payanam’, produced by Prakash Raj and directed by Radha Mohan, he says, “It was a different story which is a straight contrast from the run-of-the-mill kind of stuff. We all enjoyed working for Payanam.”