EXCLUSIVE: Pranati Rai Prakash speaks about her Telugu song ‘O Dollar Pillagaa’

The actress recently made her debut in Telugu film industry with ‘Das Ka Dhamki’

Pic Courtesy: Official Instagram Account of Pranati Rai Prakash

Actress Pranati Rai Prakash, who was last seen in a leading role in ‘Cartel’ (which happens to be
Alt Balaji’s web series) recently made her debut in Telugu film industry with ‘Das Ka Dhamki’ with a song opposite actor Vishwak Sen. The song, which has been titled as ‘O Dollar Pillagaa’, has received an extremely positive response from everyone. The said track has also been released in Hindi called 'Paisa Hai Paisa’.

Sharing her experience about working on the song, Pranati Rai Prakash said, “Even though I faced a few challenges in doing the track, the end result was super awesome. The biggest challenge was clearly the language difference. So much so that some people were communicating in sign language to me! And we had to shoot the song in Telugu and Hindi. They started to shoot the song in Telugu language first. Here I was messing up the expressions due to lack of understanding of the language and they had to keep translating. So I requested them to shoot the Hindi version first so that I could get the expressions right and emulate the same for the Telugu version. Oh My God! The second challenge was the shoes. After having shot for the song, the term ‘put on your dancing shoes’ will be a nightmare for me (laughs). Those (shoes) were really high heels and so much tight that I was wreathing in pain. I could pull it off because the team was fabulous and they really brought out the best in me. Another very sweet incident was when Vishwak’s mom hand-fed me. She came on the sets and fed me laddu. I was on a high protein diet because I needed energy. Aunty’s (Vishwak’s mom’s) laddus helped me put my best foot forward and literally so! Once a spot ‘dada’ gave me a foot massage seeing me reeling in pain. It was really kind of him. We had lots of fun on the sets, I socialised quite a bit with Vishwak’s friends. I had lots of paneer & idli dum, I loved it so much that I kept asking for more”.

When asked about her experience working with Vishwak, Pranati said, “It was a lovely experience. He’s a very warm person. The entire team hosted me with much love and made sure I’m very comfortable. He would keep checking on me through the shoot, take me to the edit screen and show the footage. He also explained the meaning of the words if I needed to know. I really enjoyed doing this song and I believe that is reflected onscreen”.

On his part, Vishwak Sen said, “Pranati’s dedication was impressive. She brought a lot of sincerity to the table as a person and as an actor. She has great screen presence too and I believe she will go a long way. Our song has really shaped up well and I hope to see her working more in the Telugu industry going forward”.

Besides Pranati Rai Prakash and Vishwak Sen, the song also featured Rao Ramesh, Prudhvi Raj and Murali Goud. Shot in Hyderabad, the music for the track had been composed by Leon James, while the lyrics had been penned by Purnachary. Singers Mangli and Deepak Blue have lent their voice to this high octane number. The choreography of the track had been done by Satish Krishnan.

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