Updated On: 04 March, 2022 08:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR
Ponniyin Selvan actor Radhakrishnan Parthiban on rubbing shoulders with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Director Radhakrishnan Parthiban shares screen space with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Mani Ratnam’s historical drama, Ponniyin Selvan. As the brother-in-law of one of Rai’s dual characters (Nandini), Parthiban plays the role of one who always warns his brother about his wife’s misdeeds. “I cannot express my joy. I worked with Aishwarya, and interacted with Amitabh sir,” he says, having connected with Bachchan at a curtain-raiser of the filmmaker’s Tamil movie, Iravin Nizhal (Shadow of the Night) in September.
While his character may not be fond of that of Rai, off screen Parthiban developed a liking for her. “She’s beautiful, physically, but never takes her acting [skills] for granted. She doesn’t even waste a single minute on the sets — wears her makeup, mugs her dialogues, rehearses her facial expressions, and delivers them. She does not take retakes. Even though she [knows] she is beautiful, she believes it is not a big deal.”