Redin Kingsley discusses the humour of ‘Doctor’ and why he felt validated when Vadivelu called him for ‘Naai Sekar’
The Hindu
Actor Redin Kingsley is the talk of the town following his loud and quirky humour in recently-released ‘Doctor’ and ‘Annaatthe’
In the last quarter of the recently-released Doctor, two comic actors, along with a battalion of lead characters, are captured by the villain and are taken on a boat to an island. Knowing that they are on the way to be executed, one of the comics, a straight-faced character called Bhagat (Redin Kingsley), asks the other (played by Yogi Babu) how much longer it will take for them to reach.
It doesn’t end there. Bhagat tells him he is feeling nauseous and asks if he has a lemon, leaving the audience in splits. This genius of a stretch is just the cream of the film’s deadpan humour that set the cash registers ringing. The man responsible for writing the comedy is director Nelson Dilipkumar, but the man who made sure the punches landed is Redin Kingsley.
The inventiveness in writing and the way Nelson draws humour from near life-and-death situations can be attributed to Doctor’s success — Redin, too, believes this. “Nelson understands the pulse of the audience and that shows,” says Redin, over a phone call, “But none of us expected such a response. We were confident that people would enjoy it, but none of us knew of the proportion.”