Potpourri of titbits about Tamil cinema

Q: Can students enter politics or not?

A: When a situation arises where the sovereignty of a country or the democratic life of its citizens or the mother tongue is threatened, students can surely get involved.

Q: Which married life can be considered as having ‘fullness’?

A: If there’s mutual love and duty-consciousness, the marriage can be considered the best.

Q: What is it that is not destroyed and that is destroyed by time?

A: Truth can never be destroyed. You can understand what is destroyable.

Q: Where can we see the God?

A: In your good deeds.

Q: When does the man become an animal? When does he become a real man? When does he become the God?

A: The man becomes an animal when he is frenzied; he becomes a real man when he receives love; when he sacrifices himself for the sake of a noble aim, he becomes God.

Q: What do you like, what do you hate?

A: I wish that everyone should live working hard till he breathes his last; now you can as well understand what I hate.

Q: I want to be your heir, I want your approval!

A: There’s no need for anyone who wants to become my heir to get my approval. All those who follow my principles are my heirs.

Q: Who is your role model in the film world?

A: In some of the things, I follow Kalaivanar.

Q: Please name the leaders who were responsible for your entry into politics …

A: Subhash Chandra Bose.

Q: When did you get the desire to don the role of Christ?

A: The wish blossomed when I watched the movie ‘King of kings’ of Cecil Be Demille.

Q: What provokes you, what pleases you?

A: When people keep repeating lies, I am angered. When a person admits frankly his true self, I feel happy.

Q: Do you believe that there’s a power beyond the power and rationale of man?

A: I am alive even after 12 January, 1967 (the day when actor M R. Radha shot MGR)! This itself is an instance to substantiate that there surely is a power above us.