Game for Mollywood: Milind Soman

40 is the new 20 in the Indian film industry and hunk Milind Soman takes this mantra to the heart.
While other actors might think twice at this age to break into other languages, the 46-year-old model has been expanding his horizon by taking up roles in Kollywood and is also keen in breaking into Mollywood.
“I am game for a Malayalam film if an interesting role comes along,” he says, in a telephonic conversation from Mumbai.
The actor was in Kerala last year filming for debutant director Sajan Kurian’s English flick Last Vision, in which he plays a North Indian psychologist. The actor insists that he not bothered that the project was carried out by a group of Malayalee youngsters with no prior experience in filmdom and says that it was the character that piqued his interest.
Despite his charming personality and rugged good-looks, the actor has been cast as the villain in movies down south, the most recent signing being Suraj’s Alex Pandian. Milind readily dismisses that this has anything to do with the stereotypical image of a hero in the south and north.
“I don’t think there’s any difference. People in the north have now readily accepted characters of South remakes such as Ghajini, Wanted and Bodyguard and the directors of these flicks have not tampered much with them either,” he observes.
On him breaking new grounds in South at 46, the salt-and-peppered-hair actor says, “I have never really thought about my age and it definitely doesn’t factor in my work. I still feel the same as I was in my 25 or 30.”