Hyderabad: South actor Vijay Sethupathi, who is currently busy promoting his upcoming film ‘Ace’, during a recent media interaction, spoke about his wish to attain stardom and how he perceives himself as a star.
During a conversation with HT, when the interviewer asked Vijay if he sees himself as an actor or a star, the ‘Ace’ actor replied, “No, I see myself as a star – the way I approach cinema is probably different. The way you perceive who a star is and the way I perceive who a star is are different. I believe I’m a star because I can bring the audience to theatres, engage them, act convincingly, entertain them and make an impact with the story being told. For me, commercial cinema is not about those mass appeal elements but about ensuring we recover the money invested in making the film. The film should give the audience highs within the story being told and through my performance. I look for this in every film. And we don’t need to follow the same format for every film either to succeed. This is what I’ve been trying to do – I want stardom, and I want to be a star, and I want to work to remain a star.”
While talking about his role as Bold Kannan in ‘Ace’, the actor shared, “It’s about love and how the two—Bold Kannan and Rukku (Rukmini Vasanth)—fall in love and experience it. It’s about how these two souls perceive love. From friendship, it moves to love; the way they handle situations and conflicts—everything is different. Love is a universal language, but how the two people in that relationship view love and life defines that love, in my opinion.”
When asked if he is a romantic person in real life, the actor expressed, “Yes, I hope I am a romantic person. (Smiles). I think love is madness. You tell the other person I’ll do anything for you, do crazy things, fight, be emotional and apologise. I don’t think we do all this with anyone else in life other than the one we love. There are no rules in love. If this happened with anyone else, we’d move away from them, but not with the person you’re in love with. No matter how much you fight, the next second you long for that person and come back. I’ve done a lot of crazy things in love. (Laughs)”
Expressing how grateful he is for the love he receives from his fans, Vijay said, “The least I can do for my fans is take a selfie. What else am I going to do for them in life?”
Directed by Arumuga Kumar, the film also features Kannada actor Rukmini Vasanth and is slated to hit theatres on May 23.
