Livingston Gets Emotional While Speaking About K Bhagyaraj; 'I Would Have Committed Suicide..'

Livingston Gets Emotional: Actor Livingston, who worked as K. Bhagyaraj's assistant director then became an actor and played various roles such as villain, hero, character artist and comedian in Tamil Cinema.

Livingston In Lal Salaam

When many people trolled Livingston for his appearance, Livingston became a hit hero with the film Sundharapurushan. While Livingston is playing an important role in Superstar Rajinikanth's Lal Salaam directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth, he spoke warmly about his Guru K. Bhagyaraj in an exclusive interview to our FilmiBeat YouTube Channel.

65-year-old actor Livingston is still a prolific actor in movies and serials. He shared an interesting incident of how he started acting as a station master in Bhagyaraj's Darling Darling Darling. Livingston, who was working as Bhagyaraj's assistant director, was teaching the actor who came to play the role of the station master.

Reason For Suicidal Thoughts

While explaining him on how to speak some dialogues, the actor could not pronounce it properly. Seeing that time was running out and he was struggling, Bhagyaraj told him to wear the coat and act in that scene. That's how Livingston made his debut as an actor in the year 1982.

"Before that I had struggled for years to join Bhagyaraj as an assistant director during Andha Ezhu Naatkal. He asked me why I want to join as an assistant director and asked to patienly wait till he call me. I too waited for 3 years, I waited at his doorstep and go wherever he went. At some point, I had a problem with my father and I left the house. That's when I finally went to Bhagyaraj sir thinking that if he doesn't give me a chance, I will commit suicide, I cried and told him about my suicidal thoughts.

He immediately panicked and asked me to stop crying. Saying that I should not commit suicide for this, he immediately hired me as an assistant director" says Livingston.