{"id":580116,"date":"2026-08-02T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580116\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:15:12","slug":"ntr-jrs-injury-postpones-dragons-sri-lankan-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580116\/","title":{"rendered":"NTR Jr&#8217;s Injury Postpones Dragon&#8217;s Sri Lankan Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The filmmakers have reassured fans that the movie release date remains unaffected and is firmly on track for June 11, 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"NTR Jr with Brendan Fraser\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19ntr3.jpg\" alt=\"NTR Jr with Brendan Fraser\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: NTR Jr with Brendan Fraser. Photograph: Kind courtesy Jr NTR\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>NTR Jr&#8217;s Dragon&#8217;s Sri Lankan shooting schedule has been put on hold.<br \/>\nActor has been advised to take 6 to 8 weeks of complete rest.<br \/>\nNTR Jr and Rukmini Vasanth were to film a romantic duet song alongside crucial romantic sequences in Sri Lanka between August and September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">The Sri Lankan shooting schedule of NTR Jr&#8217;s Dragon has been temporarily put on hold following the shoulder injury sustained by the actor.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors have advised the actor to take six to eight weeks of complete rest and undergo physiotherapy, forcing Director Prashanth Neel to pause production.<\/p>\n<p>NTR Jr and Rukmini Vasanth were to film a romantic duet song alongside crucial romantic sequences in Sri Lanka between August and September.<\/p>\n<p>All overseas logistics were finalised, but the team has now postponed the international leg. NTR Jr is currently recovering at his home in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>Filming for Dragon is expected to resume around late September or October depending on the actor&#8217;s medical clearance and recovery progress.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this production hiccup, the filmmakers have reassured fans that the movie release date remains unaffected and is firmly on track for June 11, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The filmmakers have reassured fans that the movie release date remains unaffected and is firmly on track for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5932,321,48455,93,10658,61,60,244796,132393,48845,31030],"class_list":["post-580116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brendan-fraser","tag-celebrities","tag-dragon","tag-entertainment","tag-hyderabad","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ntr-jr","tag-prashanth-neel","tag-rukmini-vasanth","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}