Ravindra Vijay’s phone was ringing since The Family Man season 2 published on Amazon Prime. His portrayal of both Muthu Pandian, an intelligence officer in Chennai, together with personality, attitude and quick retorts, has won several fans.

“The way the character was written has clicked with many,” says Ravindra Vijaysaid “The manner in which he straddles between two languages, Tamil and Hindi, and the way he manages two varied perspectives, as both an insider as well as an outsider, made the role challenging.”

This Bengaluru-based 35-year old health care grad was chasing his acting professionally as 2011. His recent films include Anbirkiniyal,” Dharala Prabhu (Tamil) and Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (Telugu). “Right from my school days, I was involved in theatre. While pursuing my medical course, I came across information in ‘The Hindu MetroPlus’ about Rafiki, a Bengaluru-based theatre group, calling for auditions. I joined them part-time.”

A couple of decades after, he visited Chennai, when Rafiki and the Chennai-based Perch Theatre surfaced to get a production, titled,” Ms. Meena, led by Rajiv Krishnan. . “My most recent theatre project was with Kira Kulambu (script based on late Ki. Rajanarayanan’s collection of folktales, Nattuppura Kadhai Kalanjiyam) , by Perch Theatre, and the play had just three actors and a wooden bench as prop. The 100th performance was in February 2020, at Puducherry which was graced by Ki. Rajanarayanan himself,” he or she adds.

Ravindra talks Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and English fluently, and may also afford only a little Urdu. “Being a Tamilian raised in Bengaluru, I had the chance to learn multiple languages. While I was working in a hospital, this proved to be an advantage as I could talk to patients in whichever language they were familiar with.”

The author of The Family Man, Suman Kumar’s wife was Ravindra’s senior in faculty and the trio were all friends. Su Man would frequently discuss work as soon as noted he had been at the practice of writing a internet collection. “He told me about a character he had written, which he thought would suit me,” Ravindra states. “ When the audition for season 2 was happening, Suman requested me to participate and, based on my performance, I was selected to play the role of Muthu Pandian. The shooting took place in Chennai for about a month in 2019; we wrapped before the pandemic broke out.”

Article its own release, Muthu Pandian is one of the talking points one of fans. “While I was performing, I did not realise that this bridging role would have this much prominence or even garner this much attention. Having a seasoned artist such as Manoj Bajpayee motivated me to give my best. We would rehearse every scene before the take. Manoj would completely transform into the character of Srikanth Tiwari once the shot was ready. Just watching him itself was a learning experience to all of his co-actors,” says Ravindra.

Among those challenges,” he says, ” was switching between languages.” “It had to sound like I was at ease talking in Tamil, switch to English for official communication and communicate in Hindi with my Mumbai counterparts. In real life, I speak better Hindi but in The Family Man, I had to talk in such a manner as though I knew the language but was not too fluent.”

Ravindra can be taking a look at playing with more roles in Telugu film. “Ever since my performance in Uma Maheswara….I have been getting offers in Telugu cinema to play the antagonist role. In Telugu film, Ishq: Not a love story, I play a bad cop. I have another negative role in Kinnerasani.”

The celebrity has bagged a part in this yet-to-be-titled film starring Pawan Kalyan and Rana Daggubati and contains also featured at the cross over picture, Footprint on-water , starring Adhil Hussain.

What exactly goes on medical career today he has demonstrated his mettle as a performer? “It has been 10 years since I moved out of the medical profession to concentrate on my acting career, which is where my passion lies,” he states, adding with a chuckle, “But my parents still believe that I will one day return to my medical profession.”