Suriya recalls mother being unable to repay Rs 25,000 loan, says he worked at garment factory for Rs 1,200 a month

The histrion past recalled, “There was a concern astatine home. One day, portion serving maine breakfast, my parent told me. ‘I person borrowed Rs 25,000 and your begetter doesn’t know’. I was rather shocked. I was like, ‘What are you saying Ma? Dad is an actor. You can’t beryllium borrowing Rs 25,000. What happened to our savings? What’s our slope balance?’ She said, ‘Its ne'er been much than a lakh’.”

Speaking astir his father, Suriya said, “Dad is ever similar that. He ne'er asks for his salary. He waits until the makers wide his payment. It was besides the clip erstwhile dada wasn’t doing a batch of movies oregon projects. There had been a spread of astir 10 months. When I saw my ma struggling to wage arsenic small an magnitude arsenic Rs 25,000, it deed maine hard. I thought to myself, ‘What americium I doing?'”

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“Until this moment, I wanted to commencement a mill of my own. I had thought to myself that my dada volition put astatine slightest Rs 1 crore into the factory. I was moving successful the mill to summation acquisition to commencement thing of my own. But that 1 speech with my parent changed everything”, added the actor.

Suriya recalled receiving a batch of acting offers due to the fact that of his lineage. He said, “I utilized to get rather a batch of offers. But, I ne'er wanted to beryllium portion of the movie manufacture oregon look camera. Until 5 days earlier facing a camera, I didn’t ever deliberation I would beryllium doing this.”

Looking astatine his fans successful the audience, Suriya said, “I came to the manufacture for money. I entered the manufacture conscionable with the volition of repaying my mother’s loan. That’s however I started my career, and that’s however I became Suriya.” He recalled, “When I did my archetypal shot, determination were thousands of radical lasting adjacent the set, they had nary hint who I was, yet, aft my shot, I heard them hooting and clapping. Ever since, generations changed, assemblage changed, but I proceed to person unconditional love. So, it is for them that I kept doing films. And now, adjacent astatine 49, I person done a movie that requires six-pack.”

Suriya is presently gearing up for the merchandise of his pan-India film, Kanguva. The film, besides stars actors Bobby Deol and Disha Patani.