Arun kee time vosthundi

“Isn’t it too premature to talk anything either about the film or me”, asks Dasari Arunkumar in a very reluctant tone. Very shy and reserved, this tall, fair actor looks a wee bit unhappy as the Indian wickets tumble one after the other. He rushed home immediately from EVV’s house where the shooting was on to catch our men in action.

His four-year-old cute girl Anjali plonks beside him to get his attention while he speaks about his career that is about to take off the second time again. “This film Adivishnu has been tailored to suit my image. I obviously can’t be seen around in colleges trying to hook a girl, that phase has passed. It’s after much deliberation I have chosen to work in this home production and I hope it makes an impact.”

Arun is a little more than a six-footer, 6.2” to be precise, has the physique and is definitely a hero material but unfortunately the stories he banked on didn’t take off well. He says, “In this industry you are as good as your last film, even a hero who’s had a great success in his previous film can’t rest on the laurels, that way I think everyone’s putting effort to get noticed.”

The actor is a grad in English literature and all along his childhood he nurtured a desire to be an actor. Very articulate, he confesses he’d been laidback about his career and feels he should have given that extra push. He adds, “It’s not as if I’ve been doing anything all this while, I did work in films but as I said it doesn’t really help if the stories are inane. At the end of the day all of us hope and think that this one will work. I have learnt to be careful about the stories I select, I was very lean during my initial films, I do work out now.”

Talk about Samanyudu, Arun says, “The film did well. it’s a Jagapati Babu movie and I’m just a part of the project.” About his father he says he has fond memories of travelling with him for shootings or otherwise when he was young, our upbringing was very normal and very simple but he got to spend more time with his mother.

He adds, “My father would be very busy those days, he would be working on more than half a dozen films a year. Now he cannot direct because of his responsibilities at the Centre.” Arun appears cool, composed when it comes to the future. “There is no point in doing any film that comes your way, one bad film and your career is stuck.” What kind of films does he watch? “Almost everything. I watch all the films that release, Telugu, Hindi. English films…only when someone says it’s good.”

The man’s movies might not have made an impact so far, but he does, sweet and sober Arun is making a fresh beginning. Sucess is a strange thing, you donno when it strikes and when it does you have the world at your feet. Hope Arun gets his due very soon and we wish the Greeku Veerudu all the best.