We present to you a one on one chat with Tamil cinema’s most eligible bachelor, the easy going, fun filled down to earth Arya on an Indiaglitz Exclusive Red Carpet.

Welcome to Red Carpet… Tell us about your twenty fifth film ‘VSOP’...

Thanks..’Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga’ is my twenty fifth film and I launched my banner (Show People) with ‘Boss Engira Baskaran’. I had an idea to do my twenty fifth film under my own banner, but I didn’t think I will be doing the film with Rajesh and it happened naturally and that too with the same team of Rajesh and Santhanam is amazing and just like ‘BOB’ I believe that ‘VSOP’ will also be a memorable film in my career. People will come in expecting a jolly film with a lot of fun in it and ‘VSOP’ will fulfil that.

Tell us about the basic story structure...

It is about two friends and just like ‘Boss Engira Baskaran’ every scene in the film you can relate to as it will be something that has happened in your life or your friend's life. The dialogues will be close to life and the Rajesh specialities like ‘Nanbenda’, ‘Appatakaru’, ‘Oorla pathu pathinanji friends vachirukaravallam nalla irukaan’ are very much there in this film too and soon after the release of the film fans will be speaking those lines.

It is very difficult to make a comedy film in any genre... Now how do you make people laugh?

Comedy is definitely difficult. If we take action scenes or emotional scenes we have the support of music, but that is not the case with comedy. If you do a lame comedy scene people will laugh at you and that affects the next five scenes as the audience are distracted and will be talking about it and I believe that a bad scene will kill the film. The comic timing in the scenes is very important and I am glad that Santhanam, Rajesh and I have never missed out on making people laugh.

Tell us about how you Rajesh and Santhanam work together...

When we did ‘Boss Engira Baskaran’ and it became a super hit and now when we were doing ‘VSOP” we did not approach it with that mindset. This film is a cute story about two friends and what happens to them when they both get girlfriends in their lives. The priorities change and you end up lying to your girlfriend or our friend and here the comic timing has to be perfect. This film has no slapstick and no drama only great dialogues and situational comedy. Every actor should be in perfect sync when doing this kind of film and I have to say that Vidyulekha Raman, who plays a peculiar character in this film has done a tremendous job and her scenes will be like the tuition center scenes of ‘Boss Engira Baskaran’.

How have the dialogues come out?

The dialogues will be very natural like how we speak at home and the comedy will not be like you have to think and laugh, but you see and hear and laugh immediately and that is the strength of the film.

Tell us about some catchy dialogues or words in this film like Appatakaru or Nanbenda...

This movie has ‘Semma Kalaai’, ‘Magizhnthiru’ and the very way we say Vasu and Saravanan. To give an example Santhanam will keep pulling my leg often and I will appreciate him by saying ‘Semma Kalaai’ to which he will ask me why you are doing that when I am degrading you and my reply is ‘Kalaaikarauthungirathu oru kalai atha like pannanumey thavira unlike panna koodathu’

How do you shoot such scenes? You won't burst out laughing?

The problem that I have in combination scenes with Santhanam he is the one who will be speaking lengthy dialogues and I will be in dilemma whether to laugh or be quiet and if I over do something it will fall flat and as I said with Santhanam it is more difficult to stand without speaking dialogues than otherwise.

You, being a mainstream hero, don’t you feel insecure when Santhanam takes over a scene?

In Rajesh’s films, both Santhanam and I have punchlines, but when Santhanam speaks them, the reach is thirty or forty times more than when I do it and the scene works out to a great extent. In some scenes I will be up and he will be down and it is clearly a give and take scenario. See if you take the title Vasu is Santhanam and I am Saravanan but there is no ego that my name should come first. Just like how he was the backbone of ‘BOB’ he is the backbone of ‘VSOP’ and we appear together in the whole film.

Tell us about the camaraderie between you, Rajesh and Santhanam...

The three of us always work as a team and the thing is Rajesh understands me and Santhanam separately both as professionals and as friends. I can say that Rajesh and Vishnuvardhan are the two people who know me inside out and that is they always construct the best scenes for me. Rajesh gives us the liberty as comedy cannot be shot from what is written alone, but there is so much created on the spot and there will also be many changes. Though Rajesh writes beautifully and comes the final outcome is something different and he gives us that freedom.

You are working with the beautiful ‘Baahubali’ girl Tamanaah... How was it?

Tamanaah is phenomenal in this film. Generally, when doing comedy the body language as well as the expressions should be loud and I confess that being a male artiste I myself am a little shy and her being a female, she surely should feel it, but Tamanaah has done a beautiful job as a bubbly girl full of energy and there are many scenes in which she pulls my leg and even Santhanam’s leg and now she is fluent in Tamil and does not take prompts and that has helped the scenes.

How was the chemistry between you and Tamanaah especially after the one you had with Nayanthara in ‘Boss Engira Baskaran’?

She is great and especially in the songs ‘Sona Sona’ and ‘Naan Romba busy’ we worked well as a colorful pair look wise, chemistry wise and everything else and I am very happy.

Do you share the same vibes you have with Anushka and Nayanthara with Tamanaah?

Sure, we are all friends and Tamanaah is a very thorough professional and we had a great time shooting ‘VSOP’. Tamanaah was doing ‘Baahubali’ at that time and when she comes to our spot she used to say that it is like a fun holiday.

All your heroines have high regard for you... How do you work that out?

Nothing at all I am just being myself.

Tell us about the music of the film...

It is a great advantage for a comedy film if the songs are good. Rajesh and I wanted to work with D.Imma