Siddharth: If I wanted job security, I would have chosen a corporate career

Siddharth returns to Telugu cinema after eight years with ‘Maha Samudram’, through which he hopes to break the lover boy image

In a lighter vein, during the course of this interview in Hyderabad, actor Siddharth remarks that Sharwanand is the primary star of director Ajay Bhupathi’s Telugu film Maha Samudram, releasing on October 14. With no box office pressure directly on his shoulders, Siddharth says he is happy to be part of the film for the love of its story and his character. Beneath that talk of how distributors look at the film is the fact that Maha Samudram marks Siddharth’s return to Telugu cinema after eight years.

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He was last seen in Telugu cinema in 2013 (Jabardasth and a cameo in Badshah), if one overlooks the films dubbed from Tamil. Ajay Bhupathi approached Siddharth for Maha Samudram in 2019, with a story set in Vizag and a large canvas that Siddharth compares to the mainstream films of the 1980s and 90s — “the sort of films Rahul Rawail, Subhash Ghai or Mukul Anand did in Hindi.”