{"id":31260,"date":"2025-08-29T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31260\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:11:11","slug":"ntr-neel-is-bigger-than-kgf-and-salaar-prashanth-neel-film-with-jr-ntr-has-no-budget-constraints-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31260\/","title":{"rendered":"NTR Neel is &#8216;bigger than&#8217; KGF and Salaar: Prashanth Neel film with Jr NTR has \u2018no budget constraints\u2019 | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Updated on: Aug 29, 2025 08:23 pm IST <\/p>\n<p>    Jr NTR&#8217;s upcoming film with KGF and Salaar director Prashanth Neel is set to dwarf even those pan-India blockbusters.     <\/p>\n<p>Having delivered back-to-back pan-India blockbusters in <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/others\/karnataka-government-proposes-200-movie-ticket-cap-yash-fans-believe-kgf-chapter-2-will-be-unbeatable-now-101752653884700.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"KGF Chapter 2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KGF Chapter 2<\/a> and Salaar Part 1, filmmaker <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/others\/yash-says-he-and-director-prasanth-neel-keep-discussing-kgf-3-it-will-happen-for-sure-101729611339156.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Prashanth Neel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prashanth Neel<\/a> is now working on his most ambitious film yet. The yet-untitled film with <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/jr-ntr\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Jr NTR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jr NTR<\/a> in the lead has been dubbed &#8216;NTR Neel&#8217; by fans and media. And if new murmurs are to be believed, the film is bigger than anything the filmmaker has mounted.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2025\/08\/29\/550x309\/NTR_Neel_1756477512362_1756477529363.webp\" alt=\"Jr NTR is collaborating with Prashanth Neel for the first time.\" title=\"Jr NTR is collaborating with Prashanth Neel for the first time.\"\/>   Jr NTR is collaborating with Prashanth Neel for the first time.    NTR Neel&#8217;s scale<\/p>\n<p>NTR Neel is still away from release, but a source close to the project exclusively tells HT that director Prashanth Neel is happy with how it is shaping up: \u201cPrashanth Neel\u2019s next with Jr NTR is his most ambitious and biggest project yet; even bigger than his pan-India blockbusters like KGF and Salaar. This is a film he has dreamt of making from the very beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the source does not reveal much about the film beyond its scale, they add that Neel is now embarking on the film with &#8216;no budget constraints&#8217;. \u201cHe feels that now is the right time, as he no longer has budget constraints and has also managed to bring on board his favourite actor, Jr NTR, to play the lead. Prashanth Neel is extremely happy with how the film is shaping up and says it is progressing beyond what he had even imagined,\u201d adds the source.<\/p>\n<p> All about the Jr NTR-starrer<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, reports had claimed that the film may be titled Dragon, but the film&#8217;s team has not confirmed that. In April this year, the official X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram account of NTR Neel announced on Tuesday that the film will be released in theatres on June 25, 2026. The first look announcement had been planned for Jr NTR&#8217;s birthday in May, but it was postponed to make way for NTR&#8217;s Bollywood debut, War 2. NTR Neel is one of the most-awaited projects in Telugu cinema. The film announced on Jr NTR\u2019s birthday in 2022 went on floors earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Jr NTR was most recently seen in Ayan Mukerji&#8217;s <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/bollywood\/war-2-box-office-collection-day-15-hrithik-roshan-jr-ntrs-film-shows-slight-dip-makes-230-crore-101756392728384.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"War 2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">War 2<\/a>, which also starred Hrithik Roshan in the lead. The film received mixed reviews, and has grossed \u20b9350 crore worldwide in 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Home_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/\" data-vars-event-cta=\"News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Entertainment_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/entertainment\" data-vars-event-cta=\"Entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/telugu-cinema\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Telugu Cinema_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/entertainment\/telugu-cinema\" data-vars-event-cta=\"Telugu Cinema\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telugu Cinema<\/a> \/ NTR Neel is &#8216;bigger than&#8217; KGF and Salaar: Prashanth Neel film with Jr NTR has \u2018no budget constraints\u2019 | Exclusive   <\/p>\n<p> See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated on: Aug 29, 2025 08:23 pm IST Jr NTR&#8217;s upcoming film with KGF and Salaar director Prashanth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,11004,24671,24673,24670,24672],"class_list":{"0":"post-31260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jr-ntr","14":"tag-kgf","15":"tag-ntr-neel","16":"tag-prashanth-neel","17":"tag-salaar"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}