“I’d say Mani Ratnam has taught me a lot. He’d say I’ve learnt nothing.“​ - Siddharth | Aval

Siddharth talks about his ’pure’ horror trilingual Aval / Gruham / The House Next Door (directed by Milind Rau), and how horror as a genre hasn’t been respected in India. He talks about completing 15 years as an actor, his fondness for the films that don’t work at the box office (Striker, Kaaviya Thalaivan), how an actor is just a commodity, about the genesis of the name of his production house (“Etaki Entertainment“), how we celebrate mediocrity, and about working with directors like Mani Ratnam, Shankar, Prabhu Deva, Rakeysh Mehra, Balaji Mohan, Deepa Mehta, David Dhawan, Sundar C, Karthik Subbaraj, Vasanthabalan and Milind Rau.