{"id":490486,"date":"2026-02-19T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490486\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:22:09","slug":"prabhas-prasanth-varmas-baka-shelved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490486\/","title":{"rendered":"Prabhas \u2013 Prasanth Varma\u2019s Baka Shelved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our readers are aware that Prabhas and Prasanth Varma were supposed to join hands for a mythological film. Prabhas was expected to play Bakasura in the movie, which was tentatively titled Baka.<\/p>\n<p>Mythri Movie Makers was set to bankroll the project. A test shoot with Prabhas reportedly took place a few months ago. However, it is now being rumored that the film may not be happening.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Prabhas did not feel comfortable after the shoot and is said to have declined the project.<\/p>\n<p>If this news turns out to be true, this would be the third film of Prasanth Varma after Hanu-Man to get shelved just before the shoot. Earlier, similar situations reportedly occurred with Ranveer Singh\u2019s Brahma Rakshasa and Nandamuri Mokshagna\u2019s debut film.<\/p>\n<p>Prasanth Varma\u2019s last directorial, Hanu-Man, was released on 12 January 2024. His next directorial is being launched after a gap of two years and one month.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-tag\">Tags <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulte.com\/tag\/prabhas\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prabhas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulte.com\/tag\/prasanth-varma\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prasanth Varma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our readers are aware that Prabhas and Prasanth Varma were supposed to join hands for a mythological film.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,7829,8555],"class_list":{"0":"post-490486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-prabhas","13":"tag-prasanth-varma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490486","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=490486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}