Exclusive Interview (Part1)

                                                                  May 3rd, 1999

               Question:: Recently, you were forced to face serious problems from all directions but finally you did overcome all those odds and troubles and now you are moving forward so majestically as a victorious hero! In cinefield you are only the second hero after M.G.R. to have won laurels once again after having sustained chronic physical injuries and become bed-ridden for a specific period of time! Would you share with us your past experiences during those critical periods?

                Answer: In the single year 1997, 5 films acted by me were released. Every one of them, contrary to our expectations, didn't run well! So there arose financial problem. Producers had great jolts! At this juncture, I too jumped into film distribution business and thereby I myself came to face so much financial losses! My health also got affected. Within those particular two years I was encircled by chronic problems like these!

             Yet even amidst such cruel times I didn't loose hope and temper and came to a firm conclusion after much, leisurely thought!

           I could say anything now about the ways in which I handled those testing problems that stared on my face in the past. But whenever I recall how I managed to solve those problems bewilders me still now to a great extent!

          Only my self-confidence enabled me to win over my bad times. I had the full hope that,  if not to-day, some other day, I would definitely become a man of great success! For all these things, I couldn't refute the vital truth that a great power above me has always guided me along the right path.

                Question: Who are all the people who have given a helping hand to you in your times of crises?

                Answer: First of all, the blessings of my father and mother is there. Then it's the power of the prayer of my fans and all others who appealed to God's grace on behalf of me! If I'm in this present state of good condition to-day, it's all only because of such peoples' goodwill!

          May 1st was my birth day. I'm starting 28th year of my age. Even at this small age I've attained a sea of experiences in life. One may have unlimited happiness. But one shouldn't get exposed to chronic problems of health and money simultaneously and at a stretch! In fact, because of these bitter experiences I h've come to understand so many truths I hadn't known before! I consider all this a gift of God to me!

                 Question: Do you have unlimited faith in God?

                 Answer: Yes. I believe that there is a force above us! Once I have started from Mandaveli, Chennai and reached Thiruppathi to offer prayer to God, traveling all the way only on foot! Like this, on another occasion, I 've covered the entire distance from Chennai to Vaillanganni temple all by walking!

                 Question: Immediately after your treatment (operation), you have participated in continuous shooting. Is there any impelling force behind such efforts?

                 Answer: When I was bed-ridden in hospital the problem didn't end up at the level of myself alone! It also affected the producers of the four films in which I was then acting. Those films' works had to be stopped half way because of my ill-health! Normally, if a film's work is stopped, consequently as many as 60 people belonging to that film unit also get affected! What's worse, it becomes the problem of their very livelihood even! What a pathetic condition it would be, if the shooting works of four films come to a standstill suddenly, because of me? Moreover the thinking within me that how dejected my fans may feel and all such factors put together imbibed into me the new spirit of energetic action that enabled me to get through the situation so successfully! So I buried all my sadness well into my heart and un minding of the pains I became busily involved in my shooting schedules!