Dhanush and his brother Selvaraghavan have been working together for 11 years straight now. And the brother duo has reunited once again for their upcoming Naane Varuven. And with that, in an interview with Pink Villa, the duo has shared how difficult it is for them to work together on the sets.
Speaking in the interview, Dhanush said, “My brother is my godfather. He has made me, he taught me acting and it is because of him, I’m sitting here.”
To this, his brother Selvaraghavan said, “Everything should have a starting point. He is being generous by saying ‘I’m his godfather’. During one or two films of him maybe, I had a lot of things to tell him then he was all on his own. I was just a part in the start but then it is all his hard work.”
Talking about the creative differences, if any, on the sets, he said, “What a fantastic thing about Dhanush is, he is an actor and I’m the director on the sets. So there are no creative differences between us. He just simply follows me. Now my responsibilities are more because he is a two-time National award winner, he has now gone to Hollywood and to handle such an actor, I have to keep forgetting he is my brother. I have to keep myself reminding, that he has achieved a lot. You suddenly feel responsibility, to do justice to his talent.”
He added, “I wanted to be and I tried but before that, I tried into music, but didn’t work out. In college, I took engineering and you realise that you are not good at it. The sooner you realise, it is better for you. Then I thought I could be a writer because I love to read stories, and watch films. More and more movies I used to watch and then it fascinated me,” as quoted by Pink Villa.