Vikram comes to Mumbai
An actor who knows the pulse of the audience like the back of his hand, Vikram these days is partial to entertainers rather than the performance-oriented films of his past.
"Any movie that runs is commercial. I still try and do performance-oriented movies, but how many good scripts like that are going around these days? Even after Pithamagan (for which he won the National Award playing a gravedigger), I waited for a long time before going for a commercial movie. I am not ashamed of doing commercial films. I love a Dhool or Saami (Tamil blockbusters both) as much as a Sethu (the movie that catapulted him to stardom after 10 years in the wilderness). I would wear orange trousers and polka-dotted shoes if I had to."
All he expects from a film is that his character needs to be different. "I will not do an out-and-out art house film, because the audience we are targeting is not going to watch it. They are not commercially viable, and they don't enthuse the general viewer. I don't feel I'm missing out on something."