India, Dec. 3 -- The Devil director Prakash Veer has said that he'd had a very basic idea for a new film right after he'd made Tarak with Challenging Star Darshan Thoogudeepa, way back in 2018. Darshan liked the log line he was told and asked Prakash to develop it as their next collaboration. It took them 6 years to go on floors with the film and another, to finally get it to screens. The film, The Devil, hits theatres on December 11, 2025.

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Seven years, though, is a lifetime in cinema and with risks of everything, from the story to the technical aspects, likely to become dated. Would a story that Prakash conceived in 2018 still...