Vishwak Sen talks about his marriage, his maturity levels, discipline, controversies and how difficult is doing a female character, why he doesn’t want to do horror films and so on…
suresh kavirayani
Whenever young actor Vishwak Sen’s film is released, some controversies also surround the film or the actor. His upcoming film ‘Laila’ is releasing this Friday. Actor Prudhvi’s political comments became viral and hurt some people. Later, Vishwak said sorry about it, because it is his film. “I wanted to stop the controversies,” said the actor. He added that he does not want to invite controversies, but they are unexpectedly coming. “Now, I am a more mature person, because I am becoming older. So, I would like to maintain more calm,” said the actor when asked why he is quiet these days.
The actor has turned into a female in this film ‘Laila’. “As an actor I would like to play all types of characters and a female character is one of them. It also shows a new dimension as an actor, and more than that it is almost two decades since a lead actor played a female role,” said Vishwak about him playing a female role. He added that in Telugu there are only a few films like ‘Madam’, ‘Chitram Bhalare Chitram’ and ‘Bhamane Satya Bhamane’ released long back.
“So, I wish to play the female character in a strong way, and at the same time director Ram Narayan came up with this and I immediately agreed,” he said. He added that in this film ‘Laila’ is going to dominate, but at the same time the audience definitely likes Sonu too. In Tamil, Siva Karthikeyan played the female character in ‘Remo’ and it was released in 2016. “He played a nurse’sw character and he did it to get his love interest. But in my film he is facing problems from three sides. So to escape from them he turns into a lady,” said Vishwak Sen. He added that  singer Sravana Bhargavi lends her voice for Vishwak’s female character.
The actor said it’s not completely an adult comedy, but it attracts youth. “When the director narrated the story to me, I laughed a lot. There are jokes, but they are more like youth content and different jokes,” said the actor. Vishwak said it took him nearly two-and-a-half hours to do the makeup. “It’s not easy, though I shaved in the morning, but by evening my beard grows, so again I had to shave,” he said about the female character. He added that he didn’t take any reference or workshop for it. “I used to mock my sister and my aunts, at school with girls, when I was a kid, so those are now helping me to play this female role,” said Vishwak.
For this film, they initially roped in Tanishk Bagchi, but he was replaced by Leon James. “I didn’t like Tanishk’s work and he also couldn’t meet our deadlines, so we replaced him with Leon James,” he said about music. He added that he doesn’t know that director Ram Narayan is also a music director. “When the motion poster was released, I asked who composed the music for it.’ To my surprise he said he did it,” said the actor.
Vishwak also turned into a lyric writer and he said for it also there was no inspiration. “From the last few years I have had this itch in my mind that I want to write lyrics. So I asked my director if he likes them, he can use them, there is no compulsion. I wrote two songs in this film,” he said. When asked if the controversy after actor Prudhvi’s political comments settled? “I don’t know, whatever needed I did,” he said. On the same stage, Chiranjeevi also came up with political comments, “but he spoke about his younger brother,” said Vishwak about Chiru. He added that he isn’t into politics.
The actor accepted that his earlier film ‘Mechanic Rocky’ was a failure. “Yes, the film did not meet my expectations and we made a few mistakes in the film. I don’t want to repeat those mistakes in my future films and I learnt a lesson from it,” said the actor. He added that there is a scene in this film which leads to the sequel, but he wanted to add only in the second week. “If this film is successful, there will be a sequel,” he added.
Vishwak Sen is going to enter his 30s in the coming March. When asked about marriage, “I got into the mood of getting married,” he said. He added that he doesn’t have anyone in his mind, and also he doesn’t know what kind of girl he wants. “When it comes, I will see,” he said.
Vishwak Sen earlier directed a film ‘Falaknuma Das’ and will he again wield the megaphone? “No, not now, after five years, I will direct a film,” he said. He added that if he directs, he can do only one film in a year, otherwise he can do four to five films a year. “I also want to earn something, so I am focused on acting now,” he said.
For another question he said, he doesn’t want to do horror genre. “When you feel something in real life, you can do it on the screen. But I watched many horror films even in an empty theatre, but I wasn’t scared, so I don’t do horror films,” he said. He said, but he was scared of humans. “We human beings can do anything,” he said.
