When a young and popular music director makes his acting debut, the audience would look forward to him grooving to his own tunes. But Vijay Antony’s going to keep you guessing on that one, as he steps into his first acting venture, ‘Naan’.
“I’m not revealing anything about the music. All I can tell you is that there are some great action sequences lined up,” says Vijay, who has scored the music for the film. Appearing on the big screen for the first time, doesn’t seem to be a task too hard for Vijay. “Acting is easy. I feel confident about my performance. I play Karthik, a college student, who hails from a poor family, but is a very talented guy. He just gets caught in the wrong places. How he emerges out of the situation, is what ‘Naan’ is all about. It’s a thriller film,” informs the music-director-turned actor.
Vijay has lost around 20 kg for the movie. “I had to lose weight, as the character is that of a younger, college-going guy,” he says. Siddharth, Rupa Manjari and Anuya also play pivotal roles in the film. Besides ‘Naan’, Vijay is currently working on four projects — ‘Velayudham’, ‘Prabhu Deva’, Vishal’s project (tentatively titled ‘Prabhakaran’) and Bharath’s ‘Yuvan Yuvathi’.
About juggling between acting and music for ‘Naan’, Vijay says, “There used to be ample time in between shots and I would sit down to make my music then. I had my system and a laptop in the caravan, so I could record even when we changed locations.”
Jeeva Shankar, the director of the movie, was Vijay’s classmate in Loyola College. “He has directed as well as cranked the camera for the film. I was comfortable with him right from day one of the shoot,” says the actor.
‘Naan’ has five songs and the single, ‘Makkayala’, is being talked about already. “It comes under the western genre and would be on air soon,” he informs. “The film’s post-production work will take three months,” he adds. What next? “I don’t know what would be my next step. May be I would end up directing a film. But yes, if I get a good script, acting is definitely on the cards,” he concludes.