Vemal had to win over an elephant named Sena for his upcoming movie Mahasenha by bribing it with jalebis before every single take. The actor admitted he was pretty spooked at first because there were recent reports about an elephant killing two people in Tamil Nadu, but the mahout kept reassuring him the animal was super well-trained and obsessed with those sweet fried spirals.
The action thriller mixes nature spirituality with forest mythology and was shot across Kerala, Gudalur, Wayanad, Kollimalai, and Ooty. Director Dhinesh Kalaiselvan described the project as exploring how human greed messes with the balance between divine natural forces and people. The elephant apparently plays a meaningful symbolic role in the story alongside the human cast that includes Srushti Dange, Yogi Babu, and Kabir Duhan Singh.
The action thriller mixes nature spirituality with forest mythology and was shot across Kerala, Gudalur, Wayanad, Kollimalai, and Ooty. Director Dhinesh Kalaiselvan described the project as exploring how human greed messes with the balance between divine natural forces and people. The elephant apparently plays a meaningful symbolic role in the story alongside the human cast that includes Srushti Dange, Yogi Babu, and Kabir Duhan Singh.
