Yash shares some never-before-revealed anecdotes from KGF 2

After the humongous success of KGF Part 1, actor Yash gave two years of his career to shoot KGF: Chapter 2. For the Prashanth Neel directorial, the actor was apparently more than happy to reprise the role of Rocky Bhai from part one. But, the junior actors were not as happy as him being part of the film and used to run away after shooting for a day in the real Kolar Gold Fields in Karnataka. Read on to find out why as the actor shares some never-before-revealed anecdotes from the KGF 2 journey.

Hyderabad: Kannada superstar Yash, who rose to pan-India fame with KGF is now looking forward to the second chapter of the upcoming Kannada action-drama KGF: Chapter 2. The actor has revealed that the team shot for the film under gruelling weather conditions and it was a task for the production team to retain the numbers of junior artists on the set as they used to run away after shooting for a day or two.

Yash in his latest interview with a webloid has spoken about the overwhelming response to KGF: Chapter 2 teaser and what makes it magical and how the team shot the film under not so shooting friendly environment.

Talking about the tough shooting process, Yash said that the whole team struggled a lot to shoot in the real gold mines and as the changing seasons would take a toll on the set, the determined art director Shivakumar J. had to rebuild the destroyed set multiple times without shoot being hampered.

Yash said when the crew of 2000 people is working anything can happen and to face the unpleasant aspect of life the makers had got everyone on the set covered by insurance. But it was the soaring temperature that was a challenge for the team while shooting in mines as extras would flee from the set experiencing the reality behind the gloss and glamour of the cinema.

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"It was very tough and used to be very hot," said Yash. "Extras used to run away from the shoot. Initially, they used to come happily saying 'okay we want to be part of KGF,' and a lot of my fans generally would come on sets as extras because they want to spend time. So, all of them were really excited but they used to run away after one day. It used to be so tough that we had to hire a few people to take care of extras," shared Yash on challenges the crew face on KGF 2 sets.

Yash also said that there was also a time when no junior artist from Bengaluru wanted to work on KGF 2 sets and the makers had to find people from Mysore and later the situation was such that they had to get artist from other states as those who have worked were not willing to come back having experienced how tough it was to shoot in the mines.

KGF: Chapter 1, which was released in 2018, won two National Awards in 2019 for Best Action and Best Special Effects.

KGF: Chapter 2 will also feature Sanjay Dutt as Adheera, the antagonist of the story and Raveena Tandon as a powerful character. The film will release in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.