Exclusive Interview    

                                                                               part3

                                                                       May 17th ,1999
                                                                 

 
                Following is part-3 of actor Ajithkumar's exclusive interview to the popular Tamil fortnightly, "Vasuki", which is coming out from "Dinakaran" Tamil Daily Newspaper group.
 
                ( His answer for the question, whether he has any ill feeling that his image gets affected when he teams with big level artists of high stature, continues as follows:)

                    As far as I am concerned I follow a particular principle very strictly: In front of the camera I consider all who act with me only as my competitors! The artist whom I team with may be the one whom I like most or an artist of very great stature, yet I prefer to treat him only as my competitor! I would always vie for outshining him in acting! I won't worry about my image and this and that!

                    Both Vijay and Prashanth are my good friends. Yet, if I happen to act with them I would definitely try to out with them in acting. For that matter, even if my parents or brothers happen to act with me in front of the camera, I would definitely treat them as my competitors!

       Question: You have acted in "Unnaiththedi"only after the operation (medical treatment). Yet, in the song scenes of the film, you have done each and every movement of yours very beautifully and gracefully! How?

       Answer:  Only after my first operation I participated in "Unnaiththedi" songs shooting and dubbing work. Each and every scene whose shooting work was completed at that time, bears the mark of my sweat and hard work.

                After my 2nd operation, I acted in "Vaali". It took 1 year 8 months of hard work and great pains on my part to complete this film. Definitely this picture would become a super-hit!

                Generally, I always share  my happiness with all the people. But when it comes to my sorrows, I have never given vent to them outwardly and explicitly! Even if I get  injured, I won't make any hue and cry or create scenes! Instead I would simply go and sit quietly in a room, keeping myself aloof!

       Question: What are all the films you are doing at present?

       Answer: I'm now acting in the following films: "Aanada Poongaatrae", "Nee Varuvaai" which I'm doing in combination with Parthiban sir, in Charan sir's direction  "Amarkalam" which is also my 25th film, under the direction of Rajiv Menon in "Kandu Konden, Kandu Konden" and the one I have committed recently, namely "Mugavari"!

                I'm of the view that I should hereafter act in three films a year. I will select good subjects and commit in them accordingly!

      Question: Generally it's said that your relationship with the press people isn't that much normal....Why?

      Answer: It isn't that I hate all the press persons. I condemn only those who write ill of me and focus on my personal life!

      Question: It's only natural that the fans become curious to know about leading artists like you! Isn't it so?

      Answer: That's true. But it's only too much when they spy on me to know at which (odd) hour I return home, wherever I use to go and at what time I take my food etc., etc. Are all these information's really necessary?

                Generally, I'm a short-tempered person. If I'm not so, then people would try to climb on me and sit upon my head! Cine field is like that!

                You can ask whatever information about me or my work....I would definitely answer. But even my parents shouldn't try to know about my personal affairs...Nobody has the right to do that. I don't like such things as these!
 
      Question: More than any other young hero, it's only you who gets implicated in so many gossips...Do you refute, on your part, all such rumors?

      Answer: You yourself call it 'gossips'! Gossips mean only rumors and nothing more!

      Question: Gossip doesn't mean rumor. It means what's told secretly into one's ears! It means secret news! Do you welcome such news?

       Answer: Among those news items you refer to, only a few are true. All others are created in peoples' imagination. The problem becomes serious when people totally unconnected with me are linked with me in gossips! So not only myself but also all those who are falsely implicated with me get affected ultimately! I wish other peoples' names shouldn't be spoiled using my name!

                                                                                                (To be concluded).