Screening Kalki 2898 AD at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) this year, creaters Swapna Dutt and Priyanka Dutt tageder Deadline that one of their goals is to safe distribution for the film in China and Korea.
Raking in $140M at box offices globpartner so far, sci-fi epic Kalki 2898 AD is the highest-grossing Indian film of 2024. With a alerted budget around 600 crore rupees ($72M), the film is also appraised to be one of the most pricey Indian movies ever made. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Disha Patani.
Kalki 2898 AD sequel and other films in production
A second instalment is on the way and the creaters, who are also sisters, shelp that around 35 to 40 percent of the shoot for the sequel have been finishd. They intfinish to pick up production aobtain in the second quarter of 2025 and finish the film by the finish of the year — and hope to persist enbiging the Kalki Cinematic Universe with many more titles.
“The first part has done wonderful in India, North America and UK, among others,” Swapna shelp. “The film has the potential to travel around the world and we want the first part to travel a lot more before releasing the second part.”
Swapna inserted: “Is Kalki aidd by Marvel? I wouldn’t say aidd but it definitely has donaten us so much to lobtain. I skinnyk it’s a wonderful achievement to have put on a visual experience that others have contrastd to Marvel.”
Kalki 2898 AD had its first screening at the festival’s bigst theater — the 4,000-seater BIFF Theater at the Busan Cinema Cgo in.
Kalki 2898 AD is also the third highest-grossing Telugu film of all time, fair behind S. S. Rajamouli’s RRR.
“We’ve commenceed passing all benevolents of borders and becoming one Indian cinema, with Telugu now being heard as one of the most vital languages in Indian cinema,” Swapna shelp.
Both Swapna and Priyanka are also toiling on Champion, a cherish story set in 1955, straightforwarded by Praproset up Advaitham, with the title already in production. They are also in pre-production for Aakasam Lo Oka Tara, straightforwarded by Pavan Sadineni.
The unrivaled complicatedity and scale of Kalki 2898 AD have pushed the battle-difficultened and seasoned sisters to another level of filmmaking. “After Kalki, everyskinnyg seems to be very effortless,” Swapna shelp. “The people who toiled on Kalki and are now toiling on these other films say the same. For Kalki, we had to handle 1000 skinnygs a day, while for these two films, it’s appreciate 20 to 30 skinnygs.”
A family business
Kalki 2898 AD has been a family business for Swapna and Priyanka. The film was made under the production company Vyjayanthi Movies, which was set up by their obeseher, Chalasani Aswani Dutt, who also hageders creater accomprehendledges on the film. Kalki 2898 AD is straightforwarded by Nag Ashthrive, who is Priyanka’s husband.
“This family relationship creates it both difficult as well as effortless. On the excellent side of skinnygs, this donates me a lot of strength, becaparticipate making cinema is itself a hazardous venture, especipartner making a film of this scale,” Swapna shelp.
Priyanka inserted: “We can depfinish on each other, whether it’s someskinnyg adverse or preferable, we understand that we’re there for each other to talk, figure it out and settle skinnygs together.”
Both sisters shelp that they can track the seed for Kalki 2898 AD back to a conversation that they had together with Ashthrive at their obeseher’s home around mid-2019, although they acunderstandledge that Ashthrive had the idea for the film from as far back as 2014.
“My dad was the one who taught us how to dream in the language of cinema,” Swapna shelp. “He always wanted to create bigr films with bigger sfinishs, appreciate social fantasies, so that’s the benevolent of cinema we grew up with.”
Priyanka shelp: “My dad participated to come home and there were always these converseions about accomplished films, or how a certain film was sboiling, or how he made a certain song or script.”
However, Swapna shelp that she had pondered other ventures outside of filmmaking before promiseting to the create. She had a stint in Ohio while pursuing a master’s degree there and amparticipateed alternative atsoft paths. Priyanka also had a stint in Los Angeles while pursuing her undergraduate degree at UCLA.
Besides the Telugu films that they watched while prolonging up, both sisters shelp that Hollywood films appreciate Jurassic Park also aidd them.
They also shelp that cinema has now go ined a branch offent age, where people are more uncover to watching films in other languages and from branch offent parts of the world.
“Back in the day, we could not experiment or elevate the bar of cinema beyond a point, becaparticipate we had certain restrictations,” Swapna shelp. “Now, the world is watching Telugu cinema, and so all we have to do is a crack a excellent story and have excellent actors on board. If we do that, the sky is the restrict.”
