Learning from failures

It has been nearly six years since Adith (of Katha fame) entered the industry but he is yet to find a strong foothold. Put that to him, he responds, “I got into the industry without going through any hardships but after my debut, things were far from rosy. I’ve heard some 60 to 70 scripts after ‘Katha’. I was even narrated ‘Mem Vayasuku Vachcham’ and ‘Yemaindi Ee Vela’ but couldn’t do them. I was waiting for the right script and right production house to start my second project until Srihari’s ‘Weekend Love’ happened. Had I debuted with a successful film, I would have faded away by now.”

He continues, “I learnt my lessons. My funda will be simple from now on – close your eyes and buy your time till a script convinces and then give your 100 per cent. The rest is not in your hands.”The actor is currently awaiting the release of Sai Korrapati’s ‘Tungabhadra’. He says the film doesn’t unfold near Tungabhadra River as many people are assuming it to be. “Tunga and Bhadra meet to form Tungabhadra. The rivers meet but people around it don’t. It’s a story about two different castes of the same village,” says Adith who plays Karlapudi Sreenu in the film.

The actor’s character required him to sport a beard and he says, “For someone who looks soft at the outset, it was a challenging task to look like a rustic villager. I had my doubts whether I could pull of the role or not. I had sported a beard for my Tamil film ‘Theneer Viduthi’ but it didn’t click at the box office and critics wrote me off, saying I was not the perfect casting for the film. It was then that I decided to do a total rustic film,” he states, adding, “Later Sai offered me ‘Tungabhadra’ and introduced me to the director Srinivas Krishna who said that he liked my look in ‘Theneer Viduthi’. I told him I can better my Tamil look. I took a few months to get into perfect shape. But to get into the skin of the character turned out to be a job easier said than done.”

Unlike Korrapati’s earlier productions, promotions of ‘Tungabhadra’ seem to be very low key but the actor begs to differ. “Since his recent outings were urban-centric, the youth shared a word or two about them on social media which in turn helped them to reach more people. As for ‘Tungabhadra’, the publicity has reached to grassroots and people are talking about it,” signs off the actor who was supposed to do the producer’s ‘Oohalu Gusagusalade’.

By Nagaraj Goud