Geethan takes the filmi route

The actor gets talking about his connection with Kollywood

October 19, 2014 06:04 pm | Updated May 23, 2016 07:39 pm IST

Geethan

Geethan

He has been interested in acting and filmmaking for a long time. And that’s why he decided to enrol for a visual communication course at Loyola.

And he certainly did. Today, Geethan is a happy man as his debut Tamil film, Kurai Ondrum Illai (KOI) , has hit screens and been received well.

“I initially got into modelling and did a few ads while in college,” he says. “It was while shooting an ad that my co-director’s student spotted and recommended me for an audition. That’s how KOI happened.”

With almost no know-how about acting and filmmaking, KOI was a huge learning experience for him. “As we were a small team, I got a first-hand experience of movie making, besides a lot of advice on how to approach each scene,” he explains.

His debut film might have just hit screens, but Geethan has almost finished work on Aakko, his next flick. “It ( Aakko ) happened a few months after Kurai was done. I decided to do it because the script was very quirky. Plus, it had an energetic team and Anirudh’s music, which I’m a big fan of. It was a completely new genre for me to experiment with.”

‘Aakko’ is the short-form for the Tamil phrase ‘Aarva Kolaaru’, which means over-enthusiastic. Ask him about his character and he says, “I play an energetic youngster. The film is about three friends and their strange encounters on a single night.”

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