Kalki 2898 AD, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Prabhas and Deepika Padukone, might be the highest grossing Indian film of the year, but it was not liked by actor Arshad Warsi, who, in a recent interview, expressed his disappointment with the film and said that Prabhas was portrayed “like a joker” in the sci-fi epic.
Talking to Samdish Bhatia on his show Unfiltered with Samdish, Arshad gave his opinion on Kalki 2898 AD and said that he liked Amitabh Bachchan’s performance in the film. “Maine Kalki dekhi, mujhe toh nhi acchi lagi. Mujhe bahut takleef hoti hai jab (I watched Kalki and didn’t like it. It hurts me when)… Amit ji was (mind-blowing) unbelievable. I can’t understand that man. I swear if we got the power he has, life ban jaae (our lives would be set). He’s unreal.”
He, however, went on to criticise Prabhas’s portrayal of Bhairava in the film.
“Prabhas, I am really sad, why was he… he was like a joker. Why? I want to see a Mad Max. I want to see Mel Gibson over there. Tumne usko kya bana dia yaar. Kyu karte ho aisa? Mujhe nahin samajh mein aata (What have you made of it? Why do they do such things? I never understand),” he said.
Directed by Nag Ashwin, Kalki 2898 AD is set in a post-apocalyptic universe of Kashi, the once-divine city that had now been reduced to a barren wasteland. Prabhas plays a bounty-hunter named Bhairava in the film who has to fight the immortal warrior Ashwatthama (Amitabh Bachchan) in order to capture Sumati, not realising that he has a much bigger role to play in the larger scheme of things.