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When the genius filmmaker Mani Ratnam decided to cast Sonu Sood in his multi-starrer 2004 film ‘Yuva’, he had complete confidence in the young actor’s abilities. He wasn’t proved wrong. Sood, in his role as Abhishek Bachchan‘s outlaw brother, surprised everyone. No wonder, today he is a popular star in the field of Telugu cinema. So much so that even South biggie Nagarjuna likes him.

“Nagarjuna is a really close friend. We first worked together in a film called ‘Super’ which was very much like ‘Dhoom’ and hit it off quite well. Naga is an extremely humble man. In fact, he recently helped me with my home décor! And his inputs worked,” says Sood, who’s done over 19 Telugu films, most of them being hits. Talking about his flat in Lokhandwala, which he has recently done up, it was incidentally bought from Urmila Matondkar. “Urmila lived in my current house for four years, before I purchased it,” he adds.

Sood is now looking forward to three films, one each in English, Hindi and Telugu. His last Hindi film, ‘Aashiq Banaya Aapne’, was a moderate success. “Now I have become conscious of my roles. Three of my next films are in three different languages. One is a film with Om Puri and Rituparna Sengupta called ‘Saab Chai Paani’. It’s a modern-day ‘Ardh Satya’. ‘Rockin Meera’ on the other hand is about the romance between an African American guy and an Indian girl, while my next Telugu film is a really huge project,” he says.