: Rana Daggubati stars as Veerabharathi (a) Kaadan , a man living in a deep forest who can communicate with animals.

Rana underwent extensive training to handle elephants on set. He spent two weeks living in a forest camp to understand pachyderm behavior. In an interview, Rana admitted that the most difficult scene to shoot was not an action sequence but a monologue where his character begs the elephant to forgive humanity.