THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Mollywood has a fair record of artists who won the hearts of audience as chubby child artists and later sashayed down the tinsel town as adroit actors. To name a few, we have Baby Sumathi, Master Reghu, Baby Anju, Master Vineeth, Baby Shalini and Baby Sanoosha in the group. The new entrant to the league is Midhun Murali, who is familiar to Malayali audience as Appu in Pramod Pappan’s movie ‘Vajram’ (2004). Eight long years have rolled on since and the little boy has grown up to play hero for a Tamil movie. In Balaji Sakthivel’s crime-thriller ‘Vazhakku Enn 18/9’, Midhun dons the greasepaint for the character Dinesh, a spoilt brat who romances Aarthy (enacted by Manisha Yadav) on screen. Amid busy preparations for examinations, Midhun spent some time to talk to City Express on his latest flick.The character of the movie, Dinesh, a plus two student is the son of a lady who is a political personality. Dinesh, who maintains animosity towards his mother, undergoes metachrosis when he is with friends and lover. They consider him as a star and an affable gentleman.Midhun calls his Kollywood entry “totally unexpected”. “The director happened to see my photograph from our family friend. From him, he learned about my brief acting stint in Malayalam movies.” By that time, some 500 boys had attended the audition for the character. “I heard that many had to go through some 30 rounds of test. Still, I got to do hardly three,” he beams.The toughest task Midhun had to encounter was to speak Tamil, a language he was not well accustomed to. “But for this slight problem with the language, I had the freedom to improvise.” He observes that for ‘VE 18/9’, he had to take a solemn approach towards acting than he did as a child artist. Therefore he had to consciously elevate himself from being a ‘school boy’ on the Mollywood sets to a performer. The icing on the cake, Midhun feels, was the appreciation from director Bhagyaraj during a felicitation meet held on the sidelines of the film release. “For me, his words are like an award. He liked my performance especially when I attempted to communicate various expressions through the eyes,” he smiles. Hailing from Edappally, in Kochi, the second year Mechanical Engineering student at Adi Sankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, now has his kitty full of offers from Mollywood and Kollywood alike. And he has decided to sign a few from both.The film, released in Tamil Nadu on May 4, is expected to hit the screens in Kerala soon.
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