Long-time desire to do a period film: Dulquer Salmaan
Chennai Sep 18 (IANS) Actor Dulquer Salmaan who plays veteran star Gemini Ganesan in upcoming Telugu-Tamil bilingual biopic "Mahanati" on the legendary southern actress Savitri says it has been his desire for long to be part of a period film.
"Amazing period is being captured in films and even in TV series in the West. For long I have desired to be part of a period drama. Unfortunately in the Malayalam film industry we don t have huge budgets to make such films. Mahanati is being made on a massive scale and I m lucky to be part of this project " Dulquer told IANS.
Talking about the project being directed by Nag Ashwin Dulquer said he is thrilled to be working with a young team.
"Both the director and the producer are younger than me. It s a young team with so much of energy. I have always been against the idea of bilinguals but it made a lot of sense to make this film in two languages " he said.
On playing Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan in the film Dulquer said: "I m not going to look like him. I can t honestly and I don t want to wear prosthetic. My approach is simple. I would like to be me in the 1950s if I was a big movie star."
"I don t think I should attempt to play Gemini Ganesan. You don t really have any off-screen footage of him. You don t know what kind of person he was off-screen. We only know his persona on screen and I can t use that to play him off-screen " he added.
The film stars Keerthy Suresh as Savitri apart from Samantha Ruth Prabhu Prakash Raj Mohan Babu and Vijay Devarakonda.
--IANS
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