Star Interviews

Q: You are one of the handful of actors around who take times out of your busy schedule just to have a yahoo voice conference with the fans of your official fan club? So which leaves us with the clear fact that you're quite an Internet savvy person? So who, what or when did you get influenced to use the Internet technology as a mode to reach out to your fans?

Madhavan: Actually I am using Internet for the past four years even before my first film Alaipauthey. I created my own website to access and it is very helpful and interesting to me. Whenever my movie releases I get rewarding comments from my fans, which I am feeling good about. Yahoo is good especially the voice message is very good.

Q: With the constant flow of fan mails via emails, you should be getting regular warnings in your mailbox? So do you individually reply to all your fan mails or do you choose the ones who tend to play around with words, or is genuinity, or the a/s/l factor? What are the criteria you choose to reply to you fan mails?

Madhavan: Yes, genuinity factor is the most important. I used to post messages to the fan emails especially to those questions that I had not replied before.

Q: You have said in one of your interviews that you go online as a distraught wife and a troubled teenager? Is that an online exercise for roles you can never take up or just your imagination running wild there? (lol)

Madhavan: Yes, it is an online exercise.

Q: What are the chat rooms you usually visit? And which one do you prefer?

Madhavan: Usually I prefer to visit Yahoo chat rooms and my own website.

Q: How often and how long do you chat or interact with your fans online? Even otherwise, not necessarily with your fans.

Madhavan: Usually once in two months I chat with my fans online. Moreover I used to reply them through emails and post messages especially when I am out of town.

Q: Would you call yourself an Internet addict? Ever had the compulsive urge to check your mails everyday?

Madhavan: Yes, I like Internet but not an addict to it. Everything has a limit and overdose is not good in any matter. Everyday when I get time I use to check the mails and reply to them accordingly.

Q: What are some of your id's and profile names which you have used in chat rooms? [ We give you the liberty of not having to disclose the id's you are using as of now]

Madhavan: I use rmaddy2000 and maddy@rmadhavan.com id's in chat room.

Q: So how familiar are you with your online vernacular? What is the favorite pickup line you would use to get the attention of an attractive female id (just the id) in a chat room? [If at all you do so]

Madhavan: I have not indulged with online vernacular. I like to chat often but due to lack of time I have not learnt pickup lines.

Q: If you were to buzz somebody in a public chat room would you look for an interesting id or a person with a sense of humour?

Madhavan: Definitely a person with a sense of humour.

Q: So do you actually have 'chat friends' or does the fact that you are a celebrity stand in the way of you getting a genuine chat friend?

Madhavan: I don't have specific chat friends in general chats.

Q: Do you enjoy the anonymity and freedom you get online which you rarely get offline?

Madhavan: Definitely I enjoy the anonymity and freedom when I get online.

Q: In one of your anonymous chat sessions ever tried telling somebody that they are actually talking to 'the Madhavan'? If so, did they believe you?

Madhavan: I usually chat in my own id and naturally everyone knows that I am Maddy. I don't like to chat in false name.

Q: Most of us are aware of Madhavan onscreen, but how is Madhavan online? Give us a hint. Anything predictable about Madhavan online, just in case one of us gets lucky and bump into you in cyber space?

Madhavan: If you see anyone named Maddy and giving funny statements that is none other than me.

Q: Like there are always pros and cons to everything, the world wide web and the internet comes with an option of fulfilling undesirable purposes being solved with it? It's basically a virtual reality were most of our youngster get lost? Most of your fans are teenagers. What would you like to tell them about the use and abuse of the net?

Madhavan: Ya most of my fans are teenagers and my advise to them is that they should take only the good things for the correct purpose in the Internet. They have to explore their ideas and view and not physically explore themselves. They should use the Internet in correct proportion. The parents and elders should teach them not to take the negativity of the Internet.

Q: Finally for the movie buffs who are dying to know about something about your movie from this interview tell us bout your next Hindi movie project 'Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar'? The fact that it was a multi-case movie did not bother you?

Madhavan: No, since I loved the story of 'Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar' I never bothered that it is a multi-cast movie. It is a great privilege for me to work with Mr.Anant Mahadevan. And my co-star is Namrita and it is an interesting story. My character name in the movie is Kirsh.

Q:. You once said "I am aware that I'm being slotted as a chocolate-boy", 'Indra' of 'Kannathil Mutam in Tamil [Amrutha in Telugu] was it a deliberate choice to break this image?

Madhavan: No, no, not like that, when I like the story I do the movie and it is a great experience when I do each movie.

Q: A final wrap of this interview with a few words about your next movie with Kamal Hassan? What would be the genre of the movie be?

Madhavan: Actually the movie is planned to be released in May and it is a lovely story. The film is based on a travel and nothing more to tell about the movie now. And it is a great privilege to work with a great actor like Kamal Hassan.

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