Actor Bharath to play a police officer for the first time!

Tamil actor Bharath will be next seen as a police officer in his upcoming movie Kalidas. After playing a baddie in Kadugu movie, Bharath will be wearing the khaki in Kalidas. The film is directed by Sri Senthil of Naalaya Iyakunar fame and has Mollywood actress Ann Sheetal as the female lead. 

In an interview with a famous daily Bharath said that “I am excited to play a cop for the first time. I did get offers to play a police officer four years ago, but I felt I didn’t have the maturity to handle it back then. You need to be physically and mentally ready to take up the role of a cop. But when this offer came by, I felt I was ready to play this role. This one’s a crime thriller that takes place over three days.” 

Unlike the rugged cop roles, the treatment of his role in this film would be different.
Bharath also adds that “Apart from the incidents surrounding the crime, this one shows the softer, romantic and personal side of the cop, too. The film was shot completely in and around Chennai. Post-production work has begun and we are looking at a summer release,”Aadhav Kannadhasan and Suresh Menon will be playing pivotal roles in the film. 

Bharath working predominantly in the Tamil film industry along with a few films in Malayalam and Telugu. His famous works include Boys, Chellamae, Kaadhal, Pattiyal, and Veyil. Bharath made his acting debut in the 2003 Tamil film Boys directed by S. Shankar, in which he played the guitarist of a boy band. He was selected for the role, after Shankar had seen him performing at a dance programme “Inspirations” at the Music Academy by Swingers. Bharath is a trained dancer by profession and joined Swingers International Dance club when he was 11 years old. 

In 2004, he first appeared in the Malayalam film, the Jayaraj-directed vigilante film 4 The People, portraying one of the four protagonists. The film went on to become a blockbuster, grossing ? 10 lakhs at the Kerala box office and turning out the highest-grossing Malayalam film of that year. Recently he played a negative character in AR Murugadoss film Spyder starring Mahesh Babu.