As someone who has seen his share of success and failure, how does your track record influence your future decisions?Īll my films have to be different from one another. There is a bit of everything in your filmography. You have always been one for experiments. I took up different characters but a few of them, like this one, has reached everyone. It has taken me some time to achieve that. The biggest hurdle for an actor is that the audience should believe that he can do anything. This fetched me a response that I haven’t received so far from Tamil family audiences. I have seen this in Telugu where I have done several family films. When you touch the hearts of the viewer, it becomes close to their heart. While you do put in a lot of effort for each character, the audience only notes it in certain films. The body language had to be completely Rajasekhar’s (his character in SMP). I didn’t want Siddharth to be seen at any cost on screen. While getting the body ready was easy, getting into the cop psyche was tough. I had to look and behave like a policeman. Secondly, it was a character I have never played before. Avarkitta OB adikkamudiyadhu! His scenes are realistic, and if you are artificial, it shows.
Firstly, it was Sasi sir’s film - he is someone who picks up stories from real life and narrates it cinematically. I always try to understand the background of my character and the need of a film. In Sivappu Manjal Pachai, you play a cop for the first time. “Had someone told me I would get so much work in 17 years, I wouldn’t have believed it. “No offence to anyone but I like my process and what I have accomplished.” The actor currently has five projects and adds that negative comments don’t affect him. He says he doesn’t understand questions that often pit him against other actors.