{"id":94532,"date":"2025-10-22T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:46:07","slug":"dhruv-vikram-admits-to-getting-opportunities-as-a-star-kid-says-he-will-do-whatever-it-takes-for-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94532\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhruv Vikram admits to getting opportunities as a star kid; says he will \u2018do whatever it takes\u2019 for acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Actors <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/dhruv-vikram\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Dhruv Vikram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dhruv Vikram<\/a> and Anupama Parameswaran are busy promoting their recent release, Mari Selvaraj\u2019s Bison Kaalamaadan, which was released in theatres on October 17. As part of their promotions for the Telugu version, which is set to be released on October 24, they were in Hyderabad. Dhruv, the son of actor Vikram, got candid about being a star kid while detailing the effort he put into playing the role.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dhruv_Vikram_star_kid_1761131040107_1761131052268.jpg\" alt=\"Dhruv Vikram stated that he worked as hard for Bison as an outsider would to play the role. \" title=\"Dhruv Vikram stated that he worked as hard for Bison as an outsider would to play the role. \"\/>   Dhruv Vikram stated that he worked as hard for Bison as an outsider would to play the role.    Dhruv Vikram on being a star kid<\/p>\n<p>Dhruv admitted at the press conference that, while he has had opportunities as a star kid, he plans to make the most of them. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s true that I\u2019m a star kid, and I am able to get opportunities. But, I am willing to do whatever it takes for the people to accept me, to love me, to love my work and for me to find a place in Tamil, Telugu, and Indian cinema. Until then, I think I will continue to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Bison, he added, \u201cIn this movie, Bison specifically, I always thought, in my place, if there was a person who didn\u2019t come from a film background, how much would he do? How much would he work? I would constantly have that in my brain and work for this movie and prepare for this movie. At the same time, had there been a kabaddi player in my situation, who got an opportunity to work with Mari Selvaraj sir, what efforts he would\u2019ve put, I tried to put in my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> About Bison Kaalamaadan<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/entertainment\/tamil-cinema\/bison-kaalamaadan-twitter-review-fans-call-mari-selvarajs-drama-hard-hitting-hail-dhruv-vikrams-performance-101760689823810.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Bison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bison <\/a>is written and directed by Mari and produced by Sameer Nair, Deepak Seigal, Pa Ranjith and Aditi Anand under Applause Entertainment and Neelam Studios. Dhruv and Anupama play the leads alongside Pasupathy, Ameer, Lal, Rajisha Vijayan and Azhagam Perumal. <\/p>\n<p>It is based on the life of kabaddi player Manathi Ganesan and tells the story of a man who strives to excel in sport while overcoming caste-based discrimination. This is Dhruv\u2019s fourth film, following the two remakes of Arjun Reddy, titled Adithya Varma (2019) and <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/regional-movies\/bala-on-arjun-reddy-remake-varmaa-it-was-my-decision-to-leave-the-film\/story-u9CG0iPEFTedOF7pwD9xpJ.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Varmaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Varmaa <\/a>(2020) by Gireeshaaya and Bala, as well as Karthik Subbaraj\u2019s Mahaan (2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actors Dhruv Vikram and Anupama Parameswaran are busy promoting their recent release, Mari Selvaraj\u2019s Bison Kaalamaadan, which was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[70201,430,70200,70202,70203,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-94532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bison-movie","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dhruv-vikram","11":"tag-dhruv-vikram-on-nepotism","12":"tag-dhruv-vikram-star-kid-comm","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}