Sarja's Bharjari goes viral

This young actor is an excited man, and rightfully so, considering he’s having a release after three whole years. Dhruva Sarja is gearing up for the release of his third film Bharjari and the artiste can’t contain his joy as everything related to his movie is trending online. The 28-year-old gets chatty with us in Kannada as he speaks about his movie which releases today, his filmi family and more…

“I play a guy who’s a ‘Jack of all, but master of none.’ He’s someone whose ambitions keep changing — when he’s in the eighth grade, he wants to become a boxer, but after two years, he wants to become a cricket player, then he aspires to be a doctor and one fine day, he wishes to be a dad! The film will show what his final ambition is,” reveals Dhruva, who will be seen with three pretty damsels in the movie.

The film will also see actors Anil and Uday who lost their lives while shooting for a project last year. Interestingly, Bharjari has more than 30 senior actors from the industry as well, including Sadhu Kokila, Avinash and Sudha Rani.

Dhruva is kicked that the flick has created a storm on the Internet. “Our dialogue teaser trended, our introductory song reached two million views in six days and the trailer trended in the Top 2 spots in India within six hours of release,” reveals the actor, who’s not active on any social media platform except Twitter.

Another reason for the Action Prince to be all smiles is that the movie is releasing in Bengaluru’s most popular single-screen theatres Urvashi and Rex along with  Cauvery Theatre after more than 20 years. “That’s one of the highlights. The last Kannada movie to release in Urvashi was Annavaru’s film Shankarguru,” he says.

As the conversation veers towards his uncle, Action King Arjun Sarja, Dhruva reveals that he learnt innumerable things from him. “Before entering the industry, he didn’t tell me what to do, he told me what not to do! I learnt things the hard way and after two years, I clearly know what not to do,” he states.

Since his brother Chiranjeevi Sarja is also an actor, is their house filled with conversations about the profession? “My grandfather, who was an actor made a strict rule that we should not talk about films at home after 6 pm. But sometimes, we do get enthusiastic and talk about it!” he quips.

As for his next venture, Dhruva is doing Poguru, directed by Nandakishore. Ask the hero with mass appeal if he’s up for doing a content-driven film in KFI and he replies, “Yes, definitely. But the script should be really interesting and gripping like Ondu Motteya Kathe, which I thought was really nice. I’m waiting to do experimental roles, but I’m taking it slowly. I want to build a strong foundation with my next two films and then move on to such movies,” he says.