Army officer wants to become a Villain!!! ; Ashok Pandian

Army officer wants to become a Villain!!! ; Ashok Pandian - An Unsung Supporting Artiste

Article posted on 10 February 2017

In recent films, if you happen to notice a man with grizzled hair yet with a majestic look as a doctor, a police officer, as an industrialist, as heroine’s father or in any other characters who pulled the focus of audience in his acting will be none other than the supporting artiste R Ashok Pandian.

Many directors rope him in for the role of supporting the artist in many of their movies. The reason is that Ashok Pandian has shown his talent in a very short time. Cinema embraces everyone who wants to explore it. After serving in Indian army for many years and participating in Kargil war in 2000, Ashok Pandian retired in the year 2012. He then joined as a physical trainer in a high school in his district Madurai.

He also remembers the funny incident which paved a role for him to enter the cinema. He had accompanied his friends to meet director Cheran to get a chance in his film. While Ashok Pandian who went to pass the time landed in a role for the movie “J K enum Nanbanin Vaazhkai’, disappointing his friends Vishvanth and ‘Pasanga’ Sivakumar without a chance in 2012.

His career in cinema then began. He acted in several movies like Kodi, Maaveran Kittu, Rajini Murugan, Poramboku, Kathhi, Singam 2, Poojai, Naan dhan Bala respectively and has acted up to 52 films in 4 years which is a huge milestone for him. He also acted in 2 Telugu movies and one of them is Chiranjeevi’s ‘Kaidhi No 150’. Apart from films he has also acted in more than 25 advertisements.

Currently, he is acting is Shankar’s ‘2.0’ who had his first shot with our Thalaivar Rajinikanth. Keeping all his nervousness hidden he had delivered his dialogue fast. While Shankar was happy with his performance he insisted on reducing the rate of dialogue speed when Thalaivar had joked saying,” Since he stands beside me his dialogue delivery is fast”. Ashok Pandian had made the take ok in his second chance and Rajini has also appreciated him saying that he is the only person to get ok in his 2nd take with director Shankar.

He has completed his project in the film ‘Kaadhal Kaalam’ who is cast as heroine’s father. The producer was accompanying the team to shoot the climax in all the 4 days to witness Ashok Pandian’s brilliant acting. Ashok Pandian wants to do a villain role and it seems he is waiting for the right script.

He is excited and so are we, to see him rock in a villain role too. WoodsDeck team wishes Ashok Pandian to achieve great feats.