Animal director Sandeep Reddy Vanga reveals why he saw Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan & Kamal Haasan's Kalki 2898 AD trailer thrice: 'This is definitely a...'

After long wait and anticipation, the mega pan-India project Kalki 2898 AD trailer featuring Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan and Deepika Padukone was released recently. While fans showered love on the promo, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga, who delivered a blockbuster in December last year with Ranbir Kapoor's Animal, revealed that he saw the trailer twice.

Taking to X (previously known as Twitter), he wrote, “Superb trailer (clapping hand emojis). Saw it three times. This is definitely a very new world and a very new experience. FDFS (first day first show) pakka (for sure).”

In the recent grand pre-release event, Amitabh Bachchan praised director Nag Ashwin and said, "Nagi came and explained the idea of Kalki 2898 AD. After he left, I thought, what the hell is Nagi drinking? To think of something like this is absolutely outrageous. Some of the visuals that you have seen just now are unbelievable. To have somebody conceive a project that is so futuristic is amazing."

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"No matter what Nag Ashwin thought of, he actually got all the material and effects to match his vision. It has been an amazing experience working for Kalki 2898AD which I will never forget," he added.

Kamal Haasan also showered love on the filmmaker and said, "I don't underestimate these ordinary-looking guys. They have a depth to them that does not show unless you talk to them. Great ideas translate better when you present them in the right way and Nagi knew how to do it. I always wanted to play a bad man because the bad man gets to do all the good things and have fun. Where the heroes are singing romantic songs and waiting for the heroine, he (bad guy) can just go ahead and do what he wants. I thought I was going to play the bad man so it's going to be fun. But then, he (Ashwin) wanted it to be different. I'm almost like a sage in the film with a bad idea."