Madhav predicts great heights for Abhi
By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Sunday,
November
26,
2006
Madhavan
plays
a
journalist
for
the
first
time
in
Mani
Rathnam's
ready-for-release
Guru.
Says
Maddy,
"I've
always
been
on
the
other
side
of
the
firing
line.
Now
I
know
how
it
feels
to
be
asking
the
questions." Reliving
the
experience
of
shooting
with
his
mentor
Maddy
says,
"Guru
is
going
to
be
no
ordinary
film.
Trust
me;
I've
worked
thrice
with
Mani
before,
including
the
Tamil
versions
of
Saathiya
and
Yuva.
Never
have
I
seen
him
so
charged.
Mani
wanted
to
go
into
the
various
time
passages
in
Guru
chronologically.
He
waited
for
all
our
dates,
and
then
did
it
in
one
go."
Any regrets about not being the central character in his mentor's film? "None at all. I've no qualms in doing anything Mani asks me to. He's my guru. And when my guru asked me to be in Guru there was no question of questioning him. Nobody questions Mani."
Maddy is happy to have worked with Abhishek. "He's one actor who's a friend first. It is very difficult to make friends with your colleagues. Somewhere the sense of competitiveness comes in. Not with Abhishek. I always wish I could do Hindi versions of my Tamil films. But when Abhishek did Run and Yuva, I was the happiest. If Mani's Yuva took Abhishek two steps forward, Guru will take him ten steps."
Interestingly Madhavan shot for Rituparno Ghosh's Sunglass back-to-back with Guru. "Though it was my first time with Ritu it felt like we had worked together many times. If in Guru I have Abhishek for company in Sunglass, I've Jayaji. People tend to notice how strong his mom's influence is on Abhishek's personality, specially the eyes and smile."
After completing his work in Guru and Rituparno Ghosh's Sunglass Madhavan is now in Malaysia for a week-long vacation with his wife Sarita and son Vedant.
"Actually," Maddy confesses seriously , "My parents advised me to go alone. Taking my son along is as good as kissing my vacation goodbye. To say he's a handful would be an understatement. He's barely 1, and he turns on my laptop and plays the music. He seems to be a gizmo expert from now only. He makes us run around his little finger. The only one not in his control is our parrot Ashley. Ashley hates Vedant for stealing away the attention. Even I feel the same way every time I see my wife and son together."
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