I’ve always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.
FAHADH FAASILMohan 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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I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.
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The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say ‘rain,’ and it started raining, and then he would say ‘song,’ and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God’s lap.
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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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I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.
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I love the forest. It is the place where you hear yourself better.
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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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It’s the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn’t mean I regret whatever choices I’ve made over the years. No, not even ‘Kaiyethum Doorathu!’
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When I am with my friends, I am comfortable.
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All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.
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I do only what I like. If we do something we don’t like, we will become someone else.
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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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Most of the films that I do help me learn something.
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I am not affected or carried away by success or failure.
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Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.
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I am a person who doesn’t like responsibility of any kind. But I do enjoy what I do.
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