Actor Shreyas Talpade, who voiced Allu Arjun’s titular character in Hindi in both Pushpa: The Rise and the recently released sequel, Pushpa 2: The Rule, has received high praise for his dubbing.

Ask him how he feels about it, and he muses, “Many films are dubbed. And there are many artistes who do it on a daily basis. I haven’t been able to figure out how Pushpa is any different. But in my entire career, I had never seen this kind of praise for a dubbed film or the person who dubbed it.”

When asked what it was like for Talpade to lend his voice to actor Arjun’s character, Pushpa Raj, he reveals, “I have never met or interacted with Sukumar ji (director) or Allu ji. Someone from their team is there when I dub.”

Dwelling on his experience, he says, “I suggest sometimes ‘Yeh achha lagega’. But, at times, they want me to stick to what the director wants.”

The 48-year-old shares that his mother is a big fan of Arjun: “She watches almost all his films. A woman of a few words, she just said, ‘I liked it, and what you did,’ when she watched Pushpa Part 1. My wife, however, liked the second part more than the first one. She exclaimed loudly when she saw the teaser: ‘What have you done? It sounds so good!’”

Now that the third instalment in the franchise, Pushpa 3: The Rampage, has been announced, does the actor have any update? “Nothing has been told to me yet. Whenever they do, I will be there,” he ends.