Did Jr NTR Work With Real Cheetahs On RRR? Actor Answers On The Great Indian Kapil Show

Kapil Sharma and his team have already stolen our hearts with just the first episode with the Jigra team and they aren’t slowing down anytime soon. Their mission to transform our Saturdays into Funnyvaars is well underway and the latest episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show promises even more laughs. This time, the show had an exciting lineup with the cast of the upcoming movie Devara: Part 1, including Jr NTR, Janhvi Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan. Naturally, with Jr NTR on the stage, questions were bound to pop up about his jaw-dropping performance in the blockbuster film RRR.

Kapil, known for his witty banter, couldn’t resist asking Jr NTR about one of the most talked-about scenes from RRR. This was, of course, Bheem’s electrifying entry scene, where he fearlessly appears alongside a range of wild animals. The scene left audiences in awe, but it also left some fans a bit confused—and that’s where the hilarious part comes in.

As Jr NTR recalled, many fans seemed genuinely baffled about how he managed to pull off such an intense scene with animals like cheetahs bears and a lion. Kapil asked him what the experience was like. That’s when Jr NTR shared the amusing story of how people actually believed he had worked with real animals during the shoot.

Jr NTR explained with a laugh, “Log soch rahe the, ki voh joh Bheem ka entry tha nah, with those Cheetas, Bhalus and Sher was real. So people were actually thinking, ki mein actually andar animals ke saath baitha hua tha. Log mujhe puch rahe the ki, kaise baith gaye aap? Phir maine bola yaar, yeh toh pura VFX hain. Aur wo bole, ‘Arre nahi, yeh VFX nahi hain sir, yeh aap sachi main baith gaye hain!’ Toh mujhe logo ko explain karne ke liye, puri R.R.R ki movie sunani padi (People thought Bheem’s entry, with the Cheetahs, Bears, and Lion, was real. They really believed I was sitting there among these wild animals. They kept asking, ‘How did you manage that?’ I would reply, ‘That was all VFX.’ But they would insist, ‘No, sir, that couldn’t be VFX, you must have been there for real!’ To explain the confusion, I would end up narrating the entire R.R.R story to them!).”

While the actor might effortlessly take on larger-than-life roles on screen, he made it clear that sitting next to real-life tigers, cheetahs and bears would have been too much—even for him!