Gulshan Devaiah: Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Raj Nidimoru Wedding Was Surprise To Me, We Shot Three... | Exclusive

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Devaiah is making his Telugu debut with Maa Inti Bangaram, opposite Samantha Ruth Prabhu. The shoot is in progress, and the film aims to be released in 2026. Amid the shooting, Samantha tied the knot with Raj Nidimoru in an intimate ceremony at Linga Bhairavi Devi temple within the Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore. In an exclusive interview with Zoom, Gulshan revealed that he wasn’t aware of her wedding date. Samantha and Raj got married on December 1. Devaiah said he was surprised to see pictures of her and Raj on social media. Maa Inti Bangaram is produced by Samantha’s Tralala Moving Pictures and directed by Nandini Reddy.

Gulshan Devaiah didn't know about Samantha-Raj wedding

Gulshan told Zoom that days after shooting with Samantha for Maa Inti Bangaram, he saw pictures of his co-star with the filmmaker. Gulshan and Raj worked together on Guns And Gulaabs, an Amazon Prime Video show. He played the role of Chaar Cut Aatmaram in the period gangster drama co-starring Rajkummar Rao and Adarsh Gourav. Devaiah revealed, “In the middle of this (Maa Inti Bangaram), they got married. I wasn’t aware of the wedding. Actually, I went and shot with her and came back. Three days after that, I see photos of the two of them. I was surprised.”

Gulshan Devaiah on perfecting Telugu diction

Gulshan further spoke about fine-tuning his Telugu for the film. He shared, “I grew up in Bengaluru and all these languages are very familiar to me. I had neighbours speaking Punjabi, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. I myself speak Kodava, which is a different language. In this multicultural and multi-lingual environment, I grew up. I spent 30 years of my life. It's not unfamiliar, but I'm more used to speaking in Kannada and Tamil than in Telugu. I do have to pay a little extra attention to the pronunciation and sentence constructions or something. I'm not fluent, but can manage. If you send me to Hyderabad, I can manage a basic conversation. I'll be able to make them understand what I want or what I'm saying. But will it be a grammatically correct sentence? No. But, when I'm playing a character who is native Telugu-speaking, then it has to also grammatically be correct. I need to practice it with the lines. I have a person to guide me with the diction, sends me voice notes, and I do Zoom sessions with him to practice the lines.”Besides Telugu, Gulshan will be seen with R Madhavan in the Tamil film, Legacy. It is his debut in the language.