SURYA LEARNS CIRCUS TRICKS FOR HIS 7TH SENSE

Tamil superstar Suriya could teach his Bollywood counterparts a thing or two about method acting. For a role that is a homage to Raj Kapoor in Mera Naam Joker, not only has the young actor spent a major part of this year preparing for his role as a circus artiste, but Suriya now intends to put up a public show of his newly-acquired skills to prove they are authentic.

For his Hindi-Tamil-Telugu tri-lingual film The Seventh Sense in which he plays a circus artiste, Suriya has been practising every conceivable circus stunt. He can now walk the trapeze, blow fire out of his mouth and juggle with six balls. In fact the ball-jugglery has been the favourite part of Suriya's preparation for his role and he just can't get enough of it.

Now to prove to his audience that the circus feats they will see him perform on the film are not doctored Suriya will go public with his skills. The film's director Murugadoss who's currently shooting with Suriya at a live circus on Coimbatore confirms the actor's plans to hold a public performance of his skill.

Says the director who last worked with another method actor called Aamir Khan in Ghajini, "For the last six months Suriya has been trained by a circus veteran who came home to Suriya every day for a couple of hours of practice. Secretly, Suriya has been learning all the ropes of being a complete circus artiste. His character is not supposed to specialize in one skill alone. Suriya had to learn everything that a circus artiste does. He specially loves the ball juggling. He has mastered juggling six balls simultaneously. He loves performing for his kids and friends."

Suriya's mastery over the art of jugglery and other circus stunts will now be on public display. Says Murugadoss, "Suriya will perform all his circus tricks live on stage at the music-release function for our film. He doesn't want his fans to think that the stunts they'd see him do in the film are special- effects. He has worked hard to learn the tricks and he wants the audience to appreciate it."

Not only this. In Coimbatore during the current shooting at a real circus, Suriya spent non-shooting hours entertaining the circus artistes with his tricks.

Says Murugadoss, "Suriya is good enough to impress actual circus artistes who have spent all their life mastering the tricks."

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