00:00 I am unable to talk under this pressure.
00:03 My team thought I would talk well from the start of the shoot.
00:08 But after seeing Rajamouli and Nani, I am unable to talk.
00:13 Don't expect much.
00:15 Of course, to our guests, Silesh, Nani and Rajamouli,
00:19 we are very thankful that you are here.
00:22 But apart from that, I also feel that for Ustad Cinema,
00:26 you are the apt guests because
00:30 the hero Surya character journey in our film is a very inspiring, aspirational journey.
00:38 And I think that personally, in your own careers, in your own life,
00:44 whatever you have done for yourself has been an inspiration to all of us.
00:49 We are all very proudly celebrating that our Telugu film has won an Oscar.
00:57 But I am sure that when you started the journey, you would have heard about Ustad, regional cinema, global cinema.
01:03 But thankful to you for believing in your cinema, your art and your language and taking it there.
01:09 And of course, Nani, my father's generation would say that Chiranjeevi came without any support.
01:17 And of course, he is an inspiration. He will be forever.
01:21 I think you are an inspiration to our generation.
01:24 Nani did it, so we can do it too without probably an industry support.
01:29 And of course, Silesh, you have seen Dhoom, 1, 2, 3 in Hindi.
01:33 Now you started Hit 1, 2, 3, 4.
01:35 So these things that you guys have done have been very, very aspirational.
01:40 So I think guests like you are very apt for Ustad.
01:44 So thank you so much for coming here today in your busy schedules.
01:48 And Ustad is a special film. Everyone says the same thing for all the films.
01:53 But Ustad really is a special film.
01:56 And about our team, I don't think I will talk today.
02:02 After watching it in theaters on August 12th, I am very confident that every audience will talk about our director.
02:12 They will talk about our DOP, our music director, every technician.
02:17 From costume to art to sound designing.
02:21 And of course, all the actors, Simha, Ravinder Vijay, Gautam Menon, Anu Hassan.
02:27 Everybody, I don't think we need this stage to talk about them.
02:30 I am very confident that August 12th audience will talk about this film and everybody involved in this film.
02:37 And from the time we started the promotion, the first question that Simha and I are asked is,
02:44 "10th Jailor, 11th Bola Shankar, 12th how are you releasing it?"
02:49 I think, with the confidence that our producers have on the output of our film,
02:56 I think that our Varahi and Krishnan Entertainment are very, very confident on the Telugu audience.
03:03 That if the film is good, 10 films will be released that week and if 10 films are good, 10 will be shown in theaters.
03:11 So we are thankful to them that one weekend, of course, with the big stars, we cannot compete with them.
03:18 We can only say that our film will run in theaters with them.
03:22 So I think of course we are thankful to the Telugu audience that we are able to do this today.
03:27 We are able to release our small film with big stars.
03:30 And yeah, Varahi Creations and Krishnan Entertainment,
03:34 the confidence that you have on this story and this team,
03:37 you will get your gift tomorrow. I really, really think so from 12th.
03:42 So thank you very much to everyone who came here and of course to the media,
03:45 for taking our film to the audience till now.
03:48 August 12th will be shown in theaters.
03:51 I really think it will be a full-fledged theatrical experience and all of you will enjoy.
03:57 I will talk more about you all in the success meet because by then you would have become a big director,
04:03 big stars. All the best to us and I think congratulations. We will do fine.
04:10 I should tell you about Suma's reaction.
04:12 No, no, no.
04:13 I was thinking why would you lose in every pre-release.
04:16 But our planning happened in the last minute.
04:20 When it happened, we were all very stressed.
04:22 Our marketing team, Simha, me, what to do, no plan, this and that.
04:25 Every 5 minutes, everyone was saying, "Suma will take care of it."
04:30 Thank you, Suma.
04:31 Thank you so much, Kavya. I love your confidence.
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