SS Rajamouli: “A role cannot be based on its length, both Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn’s roles are very important”

Director SS Rajamouli has affirmed that actors Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn ‘are playing cameos ‘ in the forthcoming movie RRR. In a recent interview, he said that as for the importance of the characters, they are equally and ‘sometimes more important than the heroes themselves’.

In a recent interview with The Indian Express, SS Rajamouli said, “A role cannot be based on its length. Both Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn’s roles are very important. If we look at RRR as a body, then Ajay sir’s character in the film is its soul. And we know there are two forces, two powerhouses in the movie, and if there is one person who has to balance them, who has the ability and the strength to contain them, then it is Sita, played by Alia Bhatt. They are playing cameos in the film, I am not going to cheat the audience about it. In terms of importance, they are equally and sometimes they are more important than the heroes themselves.”

Answering if Alia and Ajay were cast to draw in the Hindi-speaking audience, he said, “No, and I am very sure about it. When I made Makkhi or Baahubali, I never looked for actors to be from other languages to fill in some sort of economic conditions. But, it is always about actors fitting the characters convincingly and having personality traits that the characters demand and deserve.”