Prabhas spoke to Shahid Kapoor for about seven minutes after watching Kabir Singh's trailer – find out why

Earlier this week, fans finally got to see Shahid Kapoor in his upcoming film Kabir Singh. The film, which is a remake of the Telugu drama, Arjun Reddy with Vijay Deverakonda and Shalini Pandey, was redone for the Bollywood audience by director Sandeep Reddy Vanga. The film is about a doctor, a lover and a rebel – the main character played by Shahid. The trailer was an instant hit with fans and has been viewed more than 10 million times on YouTube.

And it's not just the fans who impressed the trailer. In fact, Baahubali's star, Prabhas, who will then be seen on the big screen Shraddha Kapoor in his next action film, Saaho, also watched the Kabir Singh trailer shortly after. According to a report in the DNA, Prabhas was so impressed by the trailer that he spoke to Shahid for about seven minutes and congratulated him.

In fact, it was the hairdresser-stylist of celebrities Aalim Hakim, who was with Prabhas at the time. The star of Baahubali saw the trailer of Kabir Singh and, after realizing how impressed Prabhas by Shahid and the trailer, Hakim decided to connect the two stars.

"I was in Hyderabad filming for Saaho with Prabhas, and Kabir Singh's teaser had just been launched online. Prabhas checked it and liked it. Even members of his team, who enjoyed Arjun Reddy, felt that Shahid looked brilliant. Seeing Prabhas' reaction to the promo, I called Shahid and handed him the phone. The first congratulated him and said that Kabir Singh was even better than the original. The two discussed for about seven minutes, "Aalim Khan revealed to the publication.

The Bollywood diva, Kiara Advani, who debuted in Sushant Singh Rajpur. MS Dhoni: an unknown story, plays the female lead in the film opposite Shahid. The actor of Batti Gul Meter Chalu plays an alcoholic in this film and made the headlines when he lost more than 10 kg of his body weight to embody the character of Kabir Singh. Produced by Bhushan Kumar and his series T, Kabir Singh will go to the movies on June 21st.