{"id":647121,"date":"2026-05-03T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647121\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:00:19","slug":"supportive-wife-namrata-shirodkar-cheers-as-varanasi-star-mahesh-babu-is-called-biggest-actor-of-telugu-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647121\/","title":{"rendered":"Supportive wife Namrata Shirodkar cheers as Varanasi star Mahesh Babu is called \u2018biggest actor\u2019 of Telugu cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, team Varanasi held a major promotional panel at CCXP Mexico 2026. Producer SS Karthikeya presented exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and the Varanasi to the World video at the event. The film\u2019s lead star, Mahesh Babu<\/a>, was called the \u2018biggest star\u2019 in Telugu cinema at the event, and his wife, former actor and model Namrata Shirodkar<\/a>, couldn\u2019t be prouder.<\/p>\n

\"NamrataNamrata Shirodkar and Mahesh Babu have been married for over 21 years.Namrata Shirodkar proud of Mahesh Babu<\/p>\n

At CCXP, the anchor hosting Karthikeya said, \u201cMahesh Babu<\/a>, for those who don\u2019t know, is one of, if not the biggest actor in Telugu cinema. Tollywood, specifically. And it\u2019s fair to say SS Rajamouli is one of, if not the biggest filmmaker, in Indian cinema as a whole. And this is the first time that these two are working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking further about the film, the host added, \u201cAnd when I talked to SSR during our interview, which you can now watch on Screen Rant\u2019s YouTube, I asked him how long this has been in the works for, and it had been like a decade. It had been a long time of trying to get schedules aligned, trying to figure out the right project for them to collaborate on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe homecoming of one of the biggest movie stars in Indian cinema history, as well as one of the biggest Indian stars, but specifically action. Mahesh Babu has done so much great action films along with India\u2019s biggest revolutionary filmmaker working today,\u201d he added later. Namrata <\/a>re-shared the video posted by a fan on her Instagram stories with red hearts and clapping emojis, clearly proud of her husband.<\/p>\n

About Varanasi<\/p>\n

Talking at the CCXP <\/a>panel, Karthikeya said, \u201cThe story begins and revolves and ends in Varanasi, the holy city of India, called the spiritual capital of India. It\u2019s one of the oldest cities to be built and still inhabited. And obviously, our director, Mr SS Rajamouli, had a vision of some breathtaking sequences in the ghats of Varanasi. Which, practically, couldn\u2019t have been possibly executed there. As producers, our responsibility is to make that happen. We sent our production design team to Varanasi to get all the possible measurements, pictures, and references. To get his vision come true, we built the Varanasi ghats brick by brick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Varanasi <\/a>is an epic action-adventure film directed by Rajamouli, co-written by V Vijayendra Prasad and SS Kanchi, and produced by Sri Durga Arts and Showing Business. The film stars Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran in lead roles as Rudhra, Mandakini and Kumbha. There are high expectations for the film as it\u2019s Rajamouli\u2019s next after the blockbuster RRR (2022). It is scheduled to release on April 7, 2027, for Ugadi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, team Varanasi held a major promotional panel at CCXP Mexico 2026. Producer SS Karthikeya presented exclusive behind-the-scenes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,14893,313113,35589,235807],"class_list":["post-647121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-mahesh-babu","tag-namrata-shirodka","tag-ss-rajamouli","tag-varanasi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647121","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=647121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}