'No one cared if I was Vikram's son'

Dhruv Vikram opens up about his upcoming film, Bison, the efforts he took to be part of Mari Selvaraj’s world, and living with the tag of being Vikram’s son

- AVINASH RAMACHANDRAN

DHRUV Vikram is cinema royalty. There is no point beating around the bush about it. Of course, he didn’t face the struggles that his illustrious father had to face in Tamil cinema. But Dhruv’s journey has been unlike many other star kids of his generation. His debut was mired in the controversy of the not-so-good kind. And he went for a do-over. His next film, Mahaan (2022), much to his and his costar and father Vikram’s chagrin, had to be a direct-to-OTT release. And then, he was out of people’s minds for a couple of years before finally returning to the playing field with Mari Selvaraj’s Bison. Now, he can either be praised for his resilience or criticised for the seemingly unlimited do-overs he gets in Tamil cinema.

“Even before others put forth such questions, I keep on asking them to myself. I feel confused. I feel the pressure. But that’s how I work,” says Dhruv, who has no qualms admitting that the tag of being ‘Vikram’s son’ is not going to leave him, come what may. “They have the right to point it out. Till I earn the people’s love, respect, and adulation, that perspective isn’t going to change, but getting to change that perspective is my work, right?”