India, June 4 -- The biggest selling point for Vinnod Prabhakar was that his films usually had high demand for Hindi dubbing rights, provided there were at least 4-5 fight sequences in these movies. This, however, ground to a halt during the pandemic, and it was then that the actor was approached to play the lead in Khaki-maker Naveen Reddy's next, Maadeva. Naveen had shopped his film to a few other heroes before approaching Vinnod and had met with rejection everywhere he went.

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Navagraha actor Vinnod, though, jumped at the opportunity. "When Naveen took the film to a couple of other heroes, they rejected it because the ...