You might have wept, yet felt a rush of patriotism, might have been shaken by his strong journalistic resolve yet moved by his love for a handicapped girl. Now, in his latest film 13B, R Madhavan is sending a chill down your spine
You might have wept, yet felt a rush of patriotism, might have been shaken by his strong journalistic resolve yet moved by his love for a handicapped girl. Now, in his latest film 13B, R Madhavan is sending a chill down your spine
In 13 B, Madhavan's newest film to hit theatres soon, a television serial controls what happens in his character's life. But Madhavan is no TV junkie. "I used to be one, but what you see on TV dictates how you feel for the rest of the day. There is so much negativity. We see people cry, get hurt and be insulted live on TV."
This would mean that a lot has changed since he started out on television. He smiles that gorgeous smile and says, "That was the golden period of TV. Banegi Apni Baat had so much positivity and creativity." Courtesy his son Vedant, the family now is forced to watch cartoons, which Madhavan believes, "also has so much violence".
Madhavan's childhood, however, was free of anything frightening. "My parents didn't try and scare me by telling me that the policeman would come." So now if you ask, on a scale of 1 to 10, how easily he is spooked, pat comes the answer, "-1". This does not mean that he's gracious enough not to spook others. "I used to tell ghost stories during scout and guide camps and scare the girls.
Something about a lady with one leg who came back to haunt her selfish husband," he states with a straight face. We can't help but ask why all spooky stories have women as ghosts. Madhavan reasons, "Because a bald man in a white saree would not scare anyone."
Even though he claims not to be easily frightened, we ask him to pick what would scare him the most an actress hitting on him, bad reviews or an adversary complimenting him.
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Madhavan weighs his options, even requesting that the question be repeated. He finally settles for, "Bad reviews for a good film." And what about the other two? "I am very superficial I don't read between the lines," he says of an actress making a pass at him. About an adversary complimenting him, "I would think he wants to be friends with me," he says, stating that losing his freedom would be his greatest fear.
Madhavan believes that Bollywood still has a long way to go in the thriller film genre. He hopes that 13 B will be a step forward. He picks The Sixth Sense and The Ring as his favourites, adding that he would have loved to play Bruce Willis's character in The Sixth Sense. But gory movies like Final Destination are just not his thing.
We are in his car and stop to fill petrol.
The attendants suddenly realise it's Madhavan and point him out to each other. He graciously smiles, signs the bill and we are off. This prompts us to ask, what is the scariest thing a fan has done for him? He ponders and then gives the most obvious answer, "Write letters in blood," and then, the not-so-obvious, "Ask me to have a secret affair with them!"
On the sets of the film, Madhavan says, director Vikram K Kumar was the easiest to scare. "When he would bring the camera really close to my face, I used to go 'boo'!" he says with a satisfactory grin. He may not be superstitious, but claims that on the 13th day of every month, the shoot would invariably get cancelled or at 13.00 hours everyday something used to go wrong, so much so that the cast and crew began anticipating a debacle.
Madhavan believes that actions speak louder than words and when his son is scared, "I give him a warm hug."u00a0
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