Vineeth Sreenivasan reveals why he couldn’t act with Vijay in The Greatest of All Time

“I told him if I was just acting in a film, I could tell the director and somehow do it. But as I was the director, the dates of all the actors would go to waste. He understood and said we would collaborate in the future,” he added.

Vineeth Sreenivasan said that it was because of Venkat Prabhu he became a director. The Tamil director’s Saroja was a major inspiration for Vineeth. “I watched it in Chennai only. I was living in Anna Nagar back then. While going back, I was telling my friends, ‘Why don’t Malayalam filmmakers do such things with newcomers? Look how people are celebrating it. That’s when my friend said, ‘Why don’t you do it?’ That was the reason behind my directorial debut. So, I always like him for creating the first spark in me.”

Vineeth’s Varshangalkku Shesham will hit screens on April 11.