Irritated by the numerous advertisements that play out in the theatres before a movie starts? Ramkumar, model and actor, certainly won’t. For, it is due to one such ad that he bagged his first movie break.
This ex-IT employee, who quit his job last year to take up a career in the film industry, is now the male lead in Arthanaari, directed by Sundarra Elangovan. “My producer (A.S.Muthamizh) happened to watch an ad that I modelled for and wanted to cast me. We had a week-long workshop before kickstarting the project,” he recalls.
Currently complete and awaiting a Christmas release, Arthanaari has Ramkumar playing Karthik, an architect who is an orphan. “Nasser sir plays my guardian in the film and he was instrumental in making me feel comfortable on the sets,” he says, “The emotional bond that I share with him will be one of the film’s highlights.” Arthanaari features Arundhati (of Naaigal Jaakirathai fame) in the female lead role of a woman undercover cop.