Was it a conscious decision on your part to act in such a film? Sundarapandian was a family entertainer and quite different from your earlier films which had more violence in them. Then, I thank all the directors who directed me, all the actors who acted in my films and all those who worked with me. When you feel like thanking someone for your success, who will you thank, God or the people who have accepted you? Yes, I have been lucky but I am also an extremely hard working person. You need luck but you can't sit at home and expect success to come to you. What do you attribute your success to: hard work or luck or a combination of both? Like direction is my passion, acting also gives me satisfaction. When I was accepted as an actor, I started acting in more films, and I started enjoying the process more and more. I also told him then that if they accepted me, I would continue to act. But when my friend Samuthirakani asked me to act in Nadodigal under his direction, I asked him whether the audience would accept me as an actor. When I spoke to you after you made your first film Subramaniapuram, you told me you had to act in the film as no other actor was willing to act under your direction. I can't brush aside the love of people just like that. I have been accepted by people as an actor, which not many get. But I have started loving the process of acting too now. Let me say direction is my passion and it will remain so always. Money has never been a criterion for me in anything that I do. I act in films because I love and enjoy what I am doing. Image: A scene from Kutti Pulliĭo you look at acting as something that brings in money so that you can invest it in producing more films? That is the only reason why I am acting more and directing less. You need a lot of planning and preparation before getting to direct a film, but as an actor, I have to only perform that role. You can act in more films but you can't direct many films. In this interview, Sasikumar talks about the success of Sundarapandian and what audiences can expect from Kutti Puli.įrom now on, will you be acting more and directing less? After the huge success of Sundarapandian, the new film is very hot in the market, so hot that Sun Pictures and Udhayanidhi Stalin's Red Giant Movies are presenting it.Īlso acting in the film is national award winning actress Saranya Ponvannan, who plays the role of his mother, and young Lakshmi Menon, who is his love interest. Kutti Puli, in which he plays the lead, releases today, May 30. The last film in which he acted, Sundarapandian, has justcompleted 100 days, which is rare these days.
Pasanga, which he produced,won a national award. The very first film he directed, Subramaniapuram, has become a classic. Whatever he does, whether it is as an actor, director, or producer, has been extremely successful.
Director, producer and actor Sasikumar has been described as the man with the Midas touch.