MUMBAI : On June 27, Kalki 2898 AD will be released in theatres. The film's world-building and impressive ensemble cast, which includes Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, and Disha Patani among others, have created a lot of anticipation about it.

However, landing such big names wasn't easy; due to self-doubt, Kamal Haasan took over a year to sign up for the movie. During the pre-release event of the movie in Mumbai, Swapna Dutt, the daughter of producer Aswini Dutt, stated, “One of the most difficult casting ever was Kamal sir.”

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Prabhas added, “Kamal sir, yeah, he was so worried.” Swapna then said, “You know we were shooting, but then like, ‘Yaskin, when is Yaskin coming? The whole film is Yaskin but where is Yaskin?’ And how would you cast this person who is equal and true or mightier than these two superheroes? Who is it? And then we could only think of Kamal sir. It took us one year to figure this out.”

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Prabhas added, “I was like why will he do it? Don’t torture him. Just leave.” Kamal Haasan replied, “It’s not a question of torture. Self-doubt comes you know. He has done this (Pointing towards Amitabh and Prabhas). What am I going to do? That was the reason. And it’s not that I’ve played bad guys before. Even as a lead bad guy, psychopaths and all that. But this is something else.” Prabhas said, “We are lucky to have Kamal sir.”

Kamal stated during the Mumbai event that he worked closely with director Nag Ashwin to develop the film's aesthetic look for a considerable amount of time. In the movie, Kamal will be teamed with Deepika Padukone, Prabhas, and Amitabh Bachchan.

“I was mourning to Amit ji backstage that I always wanted to play the bad man. The bad man gets to do all the good things in films. Where the heroes are singing romantic songs and waiting for the heroine, I thought I was going to play the bad man so it is going to be fun. (Nag) wanted it to be different so I am almost like a sage with a bad idea,” Kamal said.

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