Playing sickly man changed Nikhil during filming

ACTOR Nikhil Siddhartha, who plays a character with the rare dextrocardia disorder in the forthcoming Telugu revenge thriller Keshava, says he felt like a very different person during the shoot.

In the film, he plays a man whose heart is on the right side of his body.

“The character can’t get excited or angry or even emotional. It will affect his heart. I had to hold this thought and act accordingly. It wasn’t easy because it made me feel like a different person altogether,” Nikhil said.

The film’s story and the opportunity to reunite with director Sudheer Varma after Swamy Ra Ra got Nikhil excited about the project.

“There was an actor called Satya in Swamy Ra Ra. His brother suffers from this rare medical condition, which inspired Sudheer to write this story. When Sudheer told me the story was about a guy suffering from this rare condition and yearning for revenge, it really got me excited,” he said.

Did he have to talk to Satya’s brother to understand his condition better?

“I didn’t have to meet him. I created my own version of the character. I understood that people suffering from such conditions are very delicate,” he said.

Asked if he is confident about the film’s release amid the Baahubali 2 storm at the box office, he said the film’s distributors were confident.

“We were planning to push the film to June. But our distributors were very confident with the product and they insisted we come out on May 19. Ours will be a solo release, and that will be an advantage.” All stories by IANS