Naga Chaitanya is a popular and eminent actor in Telugu cinema. He made his debut with Josh in 2009 and later on gave several hit films, and he is adored by millions of people for his amazing roles. The actor is all set to make his Bollywood debut with Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor starrer Laal Singh Chadha.

He is now gearing up for the release of his upcoming project Thank You. As per reports in Hindustan Times, in one of his interviews as part of the promotions, Chaitanya revealed that he plays Mahesh Babu’s fan in the college portion of the movie. In another clip from the pre-release event of the movie, Chaitanya said the Mahesh Babu reference will serve as a very good high point for fans.

A clip of Chaitanya talking about playing a Mahesh Babu fan in Thank You has surfaced on social media. Answering a question about the Mahesh Babu connect with his character, Chaitanya told Galatta Plus in an interview, “The film travels through a certain timeline involving my character who goes through school and college to become a successful start-up billionaire. We wanted to use a layer of cinema to show how cinemas has evolved through this timeline. This is to show how my character evolves with each Mahesh Babu’s film. It starts with Pokkiri and how much my character enjoys watching it to the next Mahesh Babu film at a different stage in my career. We’ve just used the cinema reference to follow the timeline.”