Dhanush ‘would cry in mother’s lap’ when dad Kasthuri Raja pushed him to become an actor: ‘He would beg me to let him go’

Kasthuri Raja recalled that at one point, Dhanush would cry in his mother’s lap, after his brother Selvaraghavan took over the film. “Selva was a very strict filmmaker. He never bothered who was on set; everyone used to get an earful from Selva. Dhanush used to lie on his mother’s lap and cry, saying I don’t want this cinema. Brother (Selvaraghavan) is making mistakes, and he is getting mad and shouting at me. We used to somehow convince him to shoot scenes and get him ready,” he recalled.

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In the same chat, Kasthuri Raja shared the story from Dhanush’s childhood, which inspired Idli Kadai. “Sankarapuram was like Hollywood to Dhanush and Selvaraghavan from a young age. When they visited their grandparents, there used to be a small idli kadai in the area. They loved those idlis. To eat the idlis, they would not ask the grandparents for money. In that neighborhood, there was this arrangement where kids would get money for picking flowers. They used to eat idlis that way from that shop. That is the origin of the story,” he said.

Idli Kadai tells the story of a son coming back to his native village to carry on his dead parents’ famous Idli Kadai with the support of the local villagers. As per trade tracker Sacnilk, Idli Kadai earned Rs 50 crore in India.