Actor Dulquer Salman, who worked under Mani Ratnam’s direction in “O Kadhal Kanmani”, says for any actor to work with the acclaimed filmmaker is like going to the world’s top university. Dulquer spoke about it on Saavn’s entertainment-based audio show “Take 2 with Anupama and Rajeev” podcast. The actor has been on Mani Ratnam’s sets since he was a child.
Somewhere your work is being noticed or you have been doing something,” added the young actor, who is working across different languages. In the recent past, he has worked in movies like “Solo”, “Mahanati” and “Karwaan”. Does he find a big cultural difference in being on a Hindi film set to a set in the south? “Honestly speaking, I connect or relate more to a Hindi film set because all my Assistant Directors and pretty much everyone I work with would have kind of grown up like me. “They would have developed in big cities, they are all fairly well-travelled, we probably read the same books and watch the same movies. But the smaller industry not so much, but they at the most have exposure to maybe Bengaluru or Mumbai… maybe not rest of the world, so (it’s the) little things like that. “That’s the big difference that I find.”