Within no time, Raj B Shetty has acquired a reputation in Kannada cinema for being an adept actor who can gambol from goodness to irredeemable evil within the same year. From playing the gentle poet in Swathi Mutthina Male Haniye to living the role of a psychopath in Rudhiram, this is the most talented in this country. Now, in an exclusive chat with Zoom, Raj reveals playing the evil character of a psychopath.
Read excerpts here: In director Jisho Lon Antony’s Rudhiram you play the most evil character I’ve seen in Indian cinema. I consider myself really lucky to be working in cinemas. I have never dreamed to be here.
There is nothing more cinema can give me than the kick it gives when trying to achieve something new. That is the reason I gravitate towards stories which are new. Was it difficult for you to get into your diabolic character Mathew’s headspace? No, it wasn't.
I really feel every human being even the most evil of man has something similar to other normal human beings. His reaction towards a situation makes him the beast among the lot.So I can understand why the character behaves in a way.
Are you justifying the character’s vile deeds? I don't justify it in any way. He is a pure villain and evil in my eyes. Did you build a backstory for the character in your mind? Yes.
Every time he spoke to a patient who was a woman and had a child,he saw his mother. He becomes emotional when he sees a mother and a child. Maybe it reminds him of his childhood.
It triggers .
