R Madhavan praises Clint Eastwood and Amitabh Bachchan for ‘breaking rules’ and ‘staying relevant’

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect saw R Madhavan take on the helm of director, writer and lead star. The actor, who made his filmmaking debut with the film, has been garnering praise for his tackling of Nambi Narayanan’s intriguing story. Madhavan recently opened up about how he admired Clint Eastwood and Amitabh Bachchan for their influential roles in the film industry.

In conversation with Tribune India, Madhavan spoke of how Eastwood and Bachchan were two people he followed ‘earnestly’. On Eastwood, Madhavan spoke of how he admired the fact that even in his 90s, the actor-filmmaker was continuing to make the kind of films he’d wanted to do. Madhavan was impressed by the way Eastwood managed to ‘break rules’ as a filmmaker, earning Academy Awards in the process as well. The Hollywood filmmaker has four Academy Awards to his name, winning the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for his films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Eastwood had also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Unforgiven as well.

Speaking about Bachchan, Madhavan said he admired how the veteran Bollywood actor had always managed to stay relevant all this time. Madhavan had shared the screen with Bachchan in the 2010 film Teen Patti.

Madhavan also spoke of his fondness for Jimmy Sheirgill, calling the latter one of his ‘great friends’ from the Punjabi film industry. The actor added that he had ‘always’ received a lot of love from fans in Punjab.

Speaking of how he never did films to get awards, Madhavan said that whenever audiences reacted to the characters actors played on screens, the latter would feel like gods.

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is now playing in theatres. The film was shot simultaneously in Hindi, Tamil, and English. The Hindi and English versions features a guest appearance by Shah Rukh Khan. Suriya makes a special appearance in the Tamil version of the film.