A hit film is easy:Dhanush.

He’s chilling at home with wife Aishwarya and son Yatra after a hectic shoot in Tirunelveli for his upcoming film Yaaradi Nee Mohini.

“I’m still receiving congratulatory messages from everyone for Polladhavan. We knew it would be a hit, but we never expected such great feedback,” says its hero, Dhanush.

He adds, “Delivering a hit is very easy; if you plan well and stick to a certain formula, 90 per cent of the time the film’s a hit. But I want to do more than that — I want to take cinema to the next level, at least in my films,” he says.

Polladhavan has been rated as the biggest hit of Dhanush’s career. But being one of the top Tamil heroes, wasn’t he apprehensive about working with debutant Vetri Maran? “Vetri is one of the most confident guys I’ve met. He had a terrific vision and a great script; I couldn’t refuse it. Vetri and I will be working together again, but I can’t talk about it. It’s a big experiment in cinema and we don’t even know if it’ll work,” says Dhanush.

Talking about his role, Dhanush says, “The minute Vetri narrated the script to me, I could relate to it. The bike, girlfriend and the family drama are things every youngster identifies with. I could relate to the story even better because even my bike was stolen a couple of years ago. So I knew the anxiety one goes through at such a time and I easily translated it on screen.”

Polladhavan, which had a Diwali release, had to face competition from three other films. “But our film stole the show. Of course, the other films were good, but I knew they wouldn’t hamper the performance of our film,” says a happy Dhanush.

The film had some hard-core violence and the censors gave it an adult certificate. Was that a problem? “No, a few violent episodes interspersing a family drama doesn’t affect the audience. If they didn’t like it, then the film wouldn’t have become such a hit. These days, seven out 10 films have an ‘A’ certificate,” says the actor.

But the stunts in the film did require some serious practice. How did he manage to do all that maar-peet? And sport an enviable six-pack? “The stunts were really difficult, but all my training for a year has been worth it. That’s how hard I worked on my six-pack. And I wasn’t willing to take a shortcut because we wanted to stun the audience in the end. And 80 per cent of the time, we used real knives in the film. I even got a cut on my forehead when Daniel Balaji and I were doing a stunt — he slashed my forehead by mistake. Thank goodness that that knife was fake,” he says.

Up next for the actor is the love story, Yaaradi Nee Mohini , with Nayanthara. Is that a conscious move? “Yes, I’m trying to confuse the audience because I don’t want to get stuck with a particular image. But you can expect some great chemistry between Nayanthara and me because it’s not the usual romance,” says the actor.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com