A cop-drama in the offing
Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY
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Rajashekar believes his next, ‘Satyameva Jayate’, will bring back his glory days.
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I feel sorry for those actors who played the terrorists. I punched them really hard
Action flick The actor’s new film draws from real life incidents.
Everything seems to be going well for Dr. Rajashekar ever since Evadaithe Nakenti became a hit. His next movie, Gorintaku has completed 100 days in many centres and been touted as the best tear-jerker in years. Talking to Friday Review, the hero says he had second thoughts about doing the Kannada remake as it was loaded with ‘sibling sentiment’ but when he found his domestic help and his children watching the movie every day, he resolved to buy the rights. “Balakrishna did not like the film. Many people had doubts about its prospects at the box office. They thought it was more or less like Arjun’s Puttintiki Ra Chelli. I cried after watching the film and was sure it would move other men too,” he adds.
The actor believes that in the history of South Indian cinema, he must have been the only man to use bottles of glycerine for the camera. “Many people told me that only two actors, Kamal Hassan and I, looked handsome when we cried on screen; the reason why the filmmakers invariably weaved some melodrama in our movies.” The actor seems to have mastered the pulse of the audience. He reels off the titles of films that worked at B and C centres and says he trusts his instincts.
He affirms that only a few situations have been inspired by Khakee in Satyameva Jayate. After Aagraham and Ankusam, there hasn’t been a film completely filled with the action, energy and inimitable one-liners of Rajashekar. The actor says the upcoming film will bring back the glory of cop characters he played years ago. The film has been correctly timed — focussing on terrorism, police department and the bomb blasts that took place in the city.
The actor did his homework by visiting the Lumbini Park an year after the tragedy struck and reading all the interviews and paper clippings of the related incidents. He also spoke to the relatives of the victims.
The charged actor gets up from his chair and enacts an action scene to show how he kicked and slapped the terrorists in the film. He quips, “I feel sorry for those actors who played the terrorists. I punched them really hard.”
Jeevita is directing this film; her first venture was Seshu. The couple will release the film in January since they have planned to devote their time for their new real life roles in politics as well. “I am spacing my film interestingly. After Satyameva Jayate, I have another subject ready which will make you totally gooey eyed,” signs off the actor.
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