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After stealing our hearts with his character Maddy in Rehna Hai Tere Dil Main, R. Madhavan is all set to impress us yet again by making his debut in the digital space. He is all geared up with Amazon Prime Video India’s original web series, Breathe. The trailer of the series looked intriguing and super thrilling! Breathe also stars Amit Sadh and Sapna Pabbi in the lead roles.
Recently, we caught up with the man himself and got chatty about his new web series which releases on January 26, 2018. Madhavan spoke about his new avatar, challenges he faced while portraying his character, digital medium, Vikram Vedha remake and much more!
Excerpts from the interview:
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1. Tell us about your character in your web series Breathe.
My character’s name is Danny Mascarenhas. From the trailer it is evident that there is a problem with his son, his life is in danger and he will have to make choices that might not be morally or legally correct. What will you do in a situation where you have a choice to save somebody who is really close to you but you are restricted by laws and the society rules. Will you go ahead and what it takes to save him or will you stay quiet within the rules and let them die? That’s the choice that my character has to make in this series.
2. How challenging it was for you to portray this character?
Very challenging! If you have to do this for a 2-hour film, it is easier because you have to keep in track only 120 minutes about what you are doing. So if you reach the peak of an emotion in the first half, then you know you can sustain it throughout. But in this one, it has to be maintained over a period of 360 minutes which is almost close to four films. And shooting it for at the same time period as one movie which is 50 days. So all this was a big challenge which I never expected to be faced with when I accepted this web series.
3. You shot for Breathe simultaneously while shooting for Vikram Vedha and both of your characters were quite different. So was it difficult to switch between the characters?
Yes, it was overlapping. I would like to say it was but it wasn’t. In Vikram Vedha, I was coming from a straightforward place, he is the righteous guy and he sticks to the law. Here the character was so frightening in terms of things he had to face that I would never want to come back with the same character after the shoot was over. So as soon the shoot used to get over, I used to hang around with the guys, just play around and forget about him. So the withdrawal was very fast. So it was not really tough for me because it was totally different situations.
