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Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

Fahadh Faasil

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.
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Actor Character Creation Movie Myself Reading See Understand
People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn’t marry because I had to change.
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Change Marriage Myself People
My thought process is in Malayalam. So, every time I have to work outside Malayalam, the process is a little stressful. I have to translate my Malayalam thoughts into English and back to Tamil.
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Difficult Language Myself Process Stress Thinking Time Work
I will continue to do films that excite me.
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Excitement Movie Myself
Failure affects me hard.
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Affect Failure Hard Myself
I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.
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Forest Love Nature Place Yourself
Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.
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Actor Fascinate Myself Role
If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.
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Believe Movie People Place Yourself
Whenever I have really enjoyed being part of a film, it has worked well for me.
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Enjoyment Movie Myself Work
It feels good to hear good things about yourself.
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Feeling Goodness Yourself
The characters I portray are an extension of what I’ve seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.
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Character Life Myself Reading See Understand
It doesn’t matter to me how I look on screen. What matters to me is how I connect with the audience.
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Appearance Audience Connection Myself
I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.
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Actor Career End Identity Myself
When I choose the scripts, all I look forward to is an impressive narration.
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Choice Impression Myself Script Story
I trust my directors to see me through, for I don’t consider myself as a natural actor – or a good one at that.
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Director Goodness Myself Oneself See Trust
I wasn’t really sure about the kind of films I wanted to be a part of. That’s when I saw ‘Aaranya Kaandam.’ I was stunned; it was such a stylish film.
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Kind Movie Myself Surprise
My father hasn’t backed me in any way, and I don’t think anybody has backed me.
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Father Myself Support Thinking
I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.
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Money Movie Myself Result Reward
Every character, when it comes to a cinematic representation, gets complicated and layered. You are given a lot of dimensions than a single dimension to an individual. That’s the main difference between seeing something out of the window and seeing something on screen.
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Character Complication Difference Movie Represent See Yourself
Offscreen, I’m a private person. I’m shy and don’t know how to face the public.
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Face Myself Person Personality Privacy
The five directors in ‘5 Sundarikal’ experimented, and it was a very personal exercise. Amal, Anwar, Aashiq, and Sameer have done things that they have never done before. Debutant Shyju has also made a beautiful film.
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Beautiful Exercise Experiment Movie
I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.
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Artist Better Feeling Mistake Myself See
I have grown up seeing success and failure.
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Failure Growth Myself See Success
Mohan Raja is an interesting filmmaker. He is constantly, if I may use the word, contradicting himself. He explains a scene, and then he will try to break that and rebuild it. That, to me, is filmmaking. Every scene is constructed after a lot of discussions.
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Break Build Challenge Explanation Himself See Word
I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.
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Audience Movie Myself Reward See Value
Most of the films that I do help me learn something.
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Learning Movie Myself
I want my films to do the talking. I feel if people have to understand me better, I should do more good films. I just want them to know me through my films.
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Feeling Movie Myself People Talk Understand

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