Actor R Madhavan has been in the entertainment industry for almost three decades, acting across various languages. However, he says he is still waiting to deliver his best performance. He started his career as a model, appearing in TV commercials, later acting in TV shows like ‘Banegi Apni Baat’. His first major hit in movies, however, was Mani Ratnam’s Tamil romantic film ‘Alaipayuthey’, followed by films like ‘Minnale’, which was remade in Hindi hit ‘Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein’.
Despite a career rife with variety, the 51 year old star said he still craves for diverse roles. Speaking during a virtual session on Day 3 of India Film Project, Madhavan said, “I feel very inadequate right now. I don’t think I will ever reach that stage ever. When a big star or politician or leader, who embraces and says and means that he likes my work or I meet people from different generations, maybe that time I feel I am on the right path. But I still strongly feel that my best is yet to come. I don’t know if it is a safety mechanism or that is a fact. I have never sat around… The fact that I have also financially never super settled at any given point of a time, the hunger to create a star life has always kept me wanting more.”
He said he believes he would hardly ever reach a stage in his life where he would feel he has “made it. I have realised that I can never live like a star, I am a terrible star. I don’t wear designer clothes. I can’t afford to have people around me all the time. I also realise that your demeanour and the way you walk at the airport or in public kind of decide how many people mob you and how many leave you. I am very hungry. I don’t think I have ever reached a stage where I feel I have made it.”
On the work front, Madhavan is set to make his directorial debut ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’, which is based on the life of Nambi Narayanan, a former scientist and aerospace engineer of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
