{"id":256757,"date":"2025-11-02T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256757\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:28:09","slug":"mahesh-babu-ruins-ss-rajamoulis-surprise-confirms-priyanka-chopra-and-prithviraj-sukumarans-casting-ahead-of-first-look-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256757\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahesh Babu RUINS SS Rajamouli&#8217;s surprise; Confirms Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran&#8217;s casting ahead of first look reveal |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ss-rajamouli-mahesh-priyanka-prithviraj.jpg\" alt=\"Mahesh Babu RUINS SS Rajamouli's surprise; Confirms Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran's casting ahead of 'SSMB29' first look reveal\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Nearly a year after commencing work on SS Rajamouli&#8217;s ambitious next film, leading man <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mahesh-babu\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mahesh Babu<\/a> managed to turn a playful Twitter chat, into a major leak. The actor took to his handle, late Saturday night to ask director Rajamouli to keep his promise to reveal details about their next big film together. But, while the director tried to keep the suspense going Mahesh Babu seemingly confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/priyanka-chopra\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Priyanka Chopra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/prithviraj-sukumaran\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prithviraj Sukumaran<\/a>\u2019s involvement in the film, thus making it official.<\/p>\n<p>Mahesh Babu ruins Rajamouli&#8217;s surprise<\/p>\n<p>In a hilarious exchange, Mahesh Babu reached out to the director and tweeted, \u201cIt\u2019s November already @ssrajamouli,\u201d to which the director replied in Telugu, \u201cYess\u2026 ye cinemaalaki review iddaam anukuntunnaavu ee month.?\u201d (So, you\u2019re planning to review this film this month?).Mahesh quickly teased, \u201cYour \u2018forever in making\u2019 Mahabharata, Sir&#8230; First things first, you promised us something in November. Please keep up your word.\u201dRajamouli responded, \u201cIt has just started, Mahesh. We\u2019ll slowly reveal one by one.\u201dThat\u2019s when the actor dropped the bombshell saying, \u201cHow slow sir\u2026? Shall we start in 2030? Fyi, our Desi girl has been posting every street of Hyderabad on her Insta stories since January @priyankachopra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahesh confirms Priyanka and Prithviraj&#8217;s casting<\/p>\n<p>Priyanka then jumped into the conversation, playfully warning him, \u201cHelloooo!! hero!!! You want me to leak all the stories you share with me on set? Mind lo fix aithe blind ga esestha..\u201dResponding with angry emoticons, Rajamouli tweeted, \u201cWhy did you reveal PC @urstrulyMahesh \u2026 You ruined the surprise!\u201dMahesh wasn\u2019t done yet. He cheekily added, \u201cSurprise aaa? You mean to say, @PrithviOfficial is also a surprise?\u201dJoining the playful banter, Prithviraj Sukumaran wrote, \u201cSir @ssrajamouli, I\u2019m running out of alibis for these Hyderabad \u2018vacations\u2019. If I keep this up any longer, my family will start doubting me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajamouli to release special surprise tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>The thread ended with Rajamouli posting fuming emoticons saying, \u201c@urstrulyMahesh \u2026 now you ruined everything,\u201d prompting Mahesh to respond, \u201cLet\u2019s call it a truce. Put out something tomorrow.. which everyone already knows. You can still call it a surprise.\u201dTo which Rajamouli retorted, \u201cOkay, deal. But penalty for excess sarcasm \u2014 I\u2019ve decided to delay the release of your first look.\u201dPrithviraj concluded the viral exchange with a witty line: \u201cI know, sir! You love your villains the most!\u201d&#8217;SSMB29&#8242; is being described as a globe-trotting jungle adventure, with Mahesh Babu portraying a rugged explorer, like the iconic adventurer Indiana Jones. The film has been shot across locations in India and even the forests of Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly a year after commencing work on SS Rajamouli&#8217;s ambitious next film, leading man Mahesh Babu managed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,4057,134,14893,344,55008,13286,35589],"class_list":{"0":"post-256757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bollywood","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-mahesh-babu","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-prithviraj-sukumaran","15":"tag-priyanka-chopra","16":"tag-ss-rajamouli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}