For someone who powered one of the highest-grossing films of all time, there is precious little we hear from Prabhas. The colossus who strode the silver screen with Baahubali has completed filming his trilingual thriller, Saaho. He is currently holidaying in Los Angeles when he took time out for a chat about things personal and professional. Here’s some dope to chew on about South India’s biggest star since Rajinikanth.

He has fishing on the brain! When the industry is finally done with him, Prabhas has plans to buy a plot of land outside Hyderabad, get together with a few old friends and implement the aquaculture learning he had acquired in school years ago!

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He believes something “very beautiful” happened in his life after Baahubali. “It has given [me] something [that is] 10,000 times more than what I did before. Or, even more than that,” he unabashedly confesses.

Prabhas smokes an e-cigarette, a handheld electronic device that tries to create the feeling of tobacco smoking. Even demi-gods must have their weaknesses!

Richer by Rs.45 crore post his Baahubali films, he still won’t take the money for granted. He won’t forget the financial troubles that struck his father, Telugu producer Uppalapati Raju, while he was growing up. Money was tight and he would travel to college in buses. It was a big deal for the people who saw him, hailing from a big family and yet having to use public transport. “So all these things helped me work harder,” he adds.

His first film which came out in 2002, was Eeswar, and he remembers watching it for the first time flanked by his mother and sister. “We were holding hands and watching. And I could feel, ‘The film is good.’ It didn’t do so well but, you know, every shot of the film, we didn’t know until then if it’s good or amazing or what… It was something very emotional.” The suspense was largely because it was shot on an ancient analog camera!

A veteran, so to speak, with 17 films under his belt, Prabhas is still clueless about what pleases audiences. “It’s very frightening to make fans happy,” he says. “Fans have unconditional love, like mothers.”