Ashok Selvan Biography

Ashok Selvan is an Indian film actor. He played the lead roles in Soodhu Kavvum of 2013, which was his breakthrough before he gained critical acclaim for his performances in C. V. Kumar’s productions Pizza II: Villa (2013) and Thegidi (2014).

Ashok Selvan Age

Selvan was born on 8 November 1989. He is 29 years old as of 2018.

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Ashok Selvanh was born in Erode (chennimalai), Tamil Nadu, India and later moved to Chennai at age three.

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Super Singer fame Pragathi, United Nations agency created her Kollywood debut with a song in director Bala’s ‘Paradesi’ broke her silence to refute the rumors close her relationship with actor Ashok Selvan. The latest buzz in K-town is that the young singer and Ashok Selvan have smitten which wedding bells are on the cards.

Ashok Selvan wished Pragthi on her birthday last year (14th September) with a picture of them posing together. Pragathi took to her social networking page to would like the young actor on daily before his birthday constant year (7th November), with a similar picture of them together posting, “Happy birthday my dearest @ashokselvan! Love you to the moon and back Over the previous few days, the rumors mills started working suddenly after so many months to report that the two are in love and there is on the cards soo.

Putting an associate degree finish to the alleged love between them and obtaining married shortly, Pragathi came out with a long statement on her social networking page.

“I would love to line the records straight that I’m not during a relationship or obtaining married. I am presently twenty-years-old, career-focused, and a college student – not in a place of my life where I’m even close to getting married. I additionally pride myself with my robust bond with my fans, who would absolutely be aware if I was in a serious relationship,”

Disappointed with the rumors growing day after day, Pragathi added,

“This story started off as a misguided tabloid article that read too deep into one of my close friendships. I thought this was funny initially, but after more legitimate news sources started to pick up this story, I became disappointed. I am foiled that the Pine Tree Statedia has been spreading false data regarding me. I am foiled that rather than covering Ashok’s or my inventive successes, the media has chosen to perpetuate a fake narrative about our personal lives.”

She concluded by saying, “I’ve forever enjoyed having a powerful relationship with the media. Giving interviews and chatting with journalists has brought Pine Tree State joy for several years, and to see those same outlets release “news” without any basis was, to say the least, disappointing,” she said. “Thank you to my wonderful fans for projected through with Pine Tree State for of these years.
I don’t apprehend what I ever did to merit your constant love and support,”

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Ashok alongside Janani Iyer has both appeared in the 2014 crime thriller Thegidi, which won positive reviews and became a surprise success at the box office. A critic from IndiaGlitz.com noted, “Janani Iyer is sweet and plays her part perfectly as Madhu the innocent girl”.

Ashok Selvan In Billa 2

Billa II: The Beginning is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Chakri Toleti. The film is a prequel to Billa (2007) and focuses on how David, an ordinary man from the coastal regions of South Tamil Nadu, becomes Billa, a dreaded underworld don, with Ajith Kumar reprising the role of the titular character.

Casts that appear as supporting roles include; Parvathy Omanakuttan, Bruna Abdullah, Vidyut Jammwal and Sudhanshu Pandey, all of whom made their debut in Tamil cinema. The film was made more beautiful with its soundtrack and background score from Yuvan Shankar Raja, while R. D. Rajasekhar handled the cinematography and Suresh Urs worked as the editor.

Viewing the production part, the film was produced by Wide Angle Creations in association with the Hinduja Group company IN Entertainment and was officially announced in November 2010, with Vishnuvardhan as the director. Due to schedule clashes, Vishnuvardhan was replaced by Chakri Toleti, with a new script having been penned by a team involving Toleti, Sarath Mandava, and Eric Felberg.

Its principal photography happened between July 2011 and December 2011. The filming primarily took place at Tamil Nadu, Goa, Hyderabad and in Georgia, and its release was worldwide on 13 July 2012 and a dubbed Telugu version titled David Billa was also simultaneously released in Andhra Pradesh.

Ashok Selvan In Maari 2

Maari 2 is a 2018 Indian Tamil comedy action masala film directed by Balaji Mohan. The film is a sequel to his 2015 film Maari. Not only did Dhanush help in the production part under his company Wunderbar Films, but he also stars the title character. It was released on 21 December 2018, to mixed reviews from critics.

Ashok Selvan Career

After graduating from faculty, Ashok sought-after opportunities in films as an associate actor and auditioned for roles together within Prakash Raj’s production Inidhu Inidhu and India Bala’s nineteenth Step, however, was rejected throughout the amount, he applied to figure as associate assistant director to S. J.

Surya and was given the chance to feature in a very few scenes as Suriya’s friend within the director’s venture 7aam Arivu, though his scenes did not make the final version. He was additionally featured within the title card of Chakri Toleti’s Billa two, with a childhood picture of Ashok Selvan used to represent a younger version of Ajith Kumar’s titular character. He then also auditioned unsuccessfully for a role in Pizza, before Nalan Kumarasamy offered him the role of Kesavan in his black comedy film, Soodhu Kavvum (2013) after seeing him in a commercial.

Featuring aboard associate ensemble solid together with Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha and Sanchita Shetty, Soodhu Kavvum became a commercial success, with Ashok being described as “fantastic” in his role of an unemployed graduate. Ashok was then selected to replace Vaibhav Reddy in Deepan Chakravarthy’s psychological thriller Pizza II: Villa, the second film in C. V. Kumar’s Pizza franchise.

Portraying associate English novel author within the film, the film told the story of eerie happenings in a villa owned by Ashok’s character. In order to portray the role of a 30-year-old author, he gained weight and grew his hair within two weeks. The film opened to positive reviews and above average box office collections, with a critic noting that “Ashok delivers an outstanding performance”. He collaborated with C. V. Kumar once more in his third film, Thegidi, a murder mystery story directed by another newcomer P.Ramesh.

Portraying a detective, Ashok featured opposite Janani Iyer and won positive reviews for his acting in the film. A critic from Sify.com noted he “is refined and conveys tons through his visual communication and pleasing face”, while another reviewer wrote, “he seems to be quite proficient”. His recently free movies are Kootathil Oruthan and Sila Samayangalil. Kootathil Oruthan deals with the romance of a middle bencher and its trailer has had an awfully positive reaction from the audience and also the media.

After the critically acclaimed super hit Joker and also the mega-budget horror flick Kaashmora, a future venture of the bold Dream person photos production banner is Kootathil Oruthan. Sila Samayangalil directed by Priyadarshan was released on Netflix and made its way to the final round at Golden Globes. The film tells the story of eight characters UN agency reach a pathology science lab at nine a.m to give their blood for an AIDS test.

However, it all ends at five p.m when the results arrive. The film has been lapping appreciations in many festival circuits and in the recently held 9th annual Jaipur International fete, Sila Samayangalil won awards for Best Film with a Global Message, Best Upcoming Release and the overall Best Film from the Asian Continent award. He is acting in a moving picture titled atomic number 8 directed by Ananda Krishnan. His next would be a remake of Hindi film Hindi Medium and it’s titled as House Owner and to be directed by Lakshmy Ramakrishnan and Nenjamellam Kadhal directed by Nirman.

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“I’D LIKE TO WORK WITH AJITH AND DEEPIKA PADUKONE” – ASHOK SELVAN

He’s been a grumpy graduate, a tortured writer, and a bravado detective – but young up and coming star Ashok Selvan is far more than that. From his very first role alongside heavy-hitters in Soodhu Kavvum Ashok has consistently enthralled audiences with his varied portrayals and dramatic talents only normally witnessed in more seasoned artists. An award-winning short-filmmaker Ashok is also a key player in the wave of new Tamil cinema dominating the box office these days, and here he chats with columnist Dilani Rabindran about his career so far, his extremely reliable gut, and what we can prepare ourselves to see him do next, with probably just as much panache as to date.

When do you first remember wanting to become an actor?

I wanted to be a lot of things when I was growing up. I wanted to be a policeman, a businessman, a military officer, a cricketer! But I got bored of all these things and then joined the Arena Multimedia Academy to learn animation, and after enrolling in Visual Communications I figured out I didn’t like animation anymore! Then one day I was chatting with one of my friends who wanted to be an actor. He was telling me that the magic behind being an actor was that ‘every day you can be something new’. That sounded interesting to me. So there wasn’t this long-burning fire to be an actor, but in the process, I started liking what I was doing and gradually I became very serious. With each rejection, the dream became more serious.

How did you get into short films? 

I started doing short films for my seniors & classmates, and then for others after they got to know I was interested in acting and had seen my work. I didn’t have any formal training in acting, so it was like trial and error; with every shot, we did we learned something. I figured that going to offices and giving them my photos wouldn’t work for me, so I decided to do a lot of short films because then in the process I could meet a lot of directors who would eventually become feature film directors; that was my strategy.

Can you tell me about “Green”?

I did “Green” when I was 19, as a college project. That was my first short film, story, and direction. It won Best Film at the 2012 International Tamil Thoth Conference in Singapore. It’s very close to my heart since it was my first directorial debut.

You starred in another very interesting short called “Life & Death of a Rebel”…

For that film, it was just me, the director and the camera-man in Ladakh for 18 days. It was a life-changing shoot. Before that I was just doing whatever the director was telling me to put on that short we worked together on character graphs…I became very serious [about acting] after that shoot.

Your first big feature Soodhu Kavvum was a huge hit. Did you expect that level of success for the film when you were first offered the part?

Not really. They actually didn’t tell me the story [in full]! It was completely a gut feeling. There were a lot of films I was trying for and not getting, and then there were a lot of films that were coming to me that I was rejecting, and I was getting a lot of flak for it; so I was afraid that if I chose the wrong first film all those people I rejected would laugh at me. But when I went to see the Soodhu Kavvum team I just knew. I knew what Nalan was capable of because I am a huge fan of his short films; Vijay Sethupathy was also getting his name for choosing good scripts at the time, and CV Kumar had made Pizza before.

Were you hesitant to debut in an ensemble instead of as a central hero?

There are two types of films going on right now. CV Kumar’s films are treated like ‘indies’, and then there are the mainstream ‘Kodambakkam films’. If it was a mainstream film I would’ve thought twice about acting [in a group]. But with Nalan and CV I knew importance would be given to the script. There wouldn’t be separate scenes for the hero’s image beyond what was necessary in the story. It was quite a risky gamble because I had rejected multi-star offers before that, but I just knew it was meant to be my first film.

What was it like working with Vijay Sethupathy at that time when his star was first exploding? 

At that time Pizza & NKPK were big hits, so he didn’t have to be so humble, but he was very sweet. He was very supportive and encouraging. In fact, after just 10-15 days of working together, he recommended me to other directors. He is like an elder brother. If I ever have doubts about what to do in my career, he is one of the 2-3 people in the industry I can ask advice from.

So even though Pizza 2 wasn’t a sequel, did you feel pressure taking on a role in a franchise that was already so successful?

Huge pressure! Your first film as the main hero itself is pressurizing, and then to add that Pizza title was double the pressure! But I think that is what pushed me to the next level. It was a good kind of pressure!

Thegidi is also such a different film – neo-noir and mysterious. Are you specific in choosing these types of roles or are people approaching you with them?

All kinds of people approach me. There are people who want me to be the next mass hero…but I don’t base my decisions on that. Thegidi was recommended by CV Kumar. He asked me to listen to the narration, and I thought it was brilliant when I did.

I also chose Thegidi because in Pizza 2 the character was not relative to me. Would you see that kind of tortured, writer type in real life often? (I mean you might, but the common man probably wouldn’t!) So after that, I thought let me do a character that is more relatable; not entirely boy-next-door but someone that people want to cheer for – someone that they want to win in the end. And Vetri was very lovable, so that was also another reason why I chose Thegidi, in addition to the script is wonderful.

Most of your roles have been suspenseful to date. Do you want to try all different types of genres, like comedy, full romance? 

That’s the plan for the next 2 years, try out every genre. The Sathyasivan film I’m shooting for right now is a full-length comedy, [and then I have Varai Padam following that]. So I want to break that serious typecast. People started asking me “don’t you smile?”…so I chose this script!

I heard that you rejected over 40 scripts before you chose this Sathyasiva movie, is that true?

Yes. People started approaching me with more thrillers, and some other things, after Thegidi. But this script was very light and I wanted to try comedy. And it’s with a good production company.

You’ve directed short films before, so is directing features something you plan on doing in the future? 

I definitely have plans for directing, but not anytime soon. That urge is always there.

Of all the celebs or industry veterans, you’ve got to meet through your career which was the most memorable meeting?

Kamal Sir. He saw Soodhu Kavvum and invited the team over. He was mainly looking at the other side of the circle we were in, so I was thinking “I came all this way and he’s not even looking at me!” and then he asked CV Kumar what he was working on and at the time Pizza 2 was filming. So when Kamal sir asked who’s acting in it, everyone just replied ‘that guy’ and pointed to me. Then he looked at me for a while and eventually asked “enthe ooru?” and I was lost for about 5 seconds while everyone stared at me! After a while I managed “Erode, sir” and he replied “Good. Good” and turned back around. That’s it. It’s like a video that plays on loop in my head!

If you weren’t working in the film industry what do you think you would be doing? 

I think I would have a different job every 3 months! I have other desires besides acting, for instance, I would like to be a writer. There are a lot of things I would like to do, that I will do. It doesn’t have to be because I am bored with acting, but because I would love to try many different types of roles in life and figure out exactly what I am here for.

Source: behindwoods.com

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Vijay Antony to collaborate with director Ananda Krishnan for his upcoming film

Director Ananda Krishnan made his directorial debut in Tamil Cinema with ‘Aal’ with actor Viddarth in the lead. But the director grabbed everyone’s attention with his film ‘Metro’. The film revolves around the chain snatching crime in detail. It also created controversy as the censor board refused to give permission for the film as the film would give away unknown techniques to the perpetrators of the law.

Later, the director announced his next film titled ‘Oxygen’ with Ashok Selvan of ‘Thegidi’ fame. However, the project got dropped due to reasons unknown. The latest update is that the director has approached Vijay Antony who has agreed to do a project with him. The film is set to be produced by T.D.Raja. The more interesting fact about the movie is that it is expected to deal with politics which was hinted through an image with the tweet of the actor and music director.

Meanwhile, Vijay Antony’s next release in Tamil would be ‘Kolaikaaran’ with Andrew Louis and ‘Thamilarasan’ with Babu Yogeswaran. Vijay Antony is expected to start shooting for Ananda Krishnan’s film after wrapping up the shoot of his film ‘Agni Siragugal’ with Naveen of ‘Moodar Koodam’ fame. The team has already completed its first schedule of shoot.

Adopted from: timesofindia.indiatimes.com