Vamsi Krishna bagged his first film quite effortlessly. “When I was travelling on a flight, director Gautam Menon was seated next to me. He saw me and asked about my interest in films,” recalls Vamsi.
Realising it was a chance that would not come to many, he immediately said ‘yes’ to Menon. That was in the year 2003 when Gautam made the film Gharshana with Venkatesh. Vamsi Krishna played one of the cops in the film.
Born and brought up in Visakhapatnam, Vamsi Krishna completed his graduation from Gitam and went to the UK for his MBA. Interestingly, his parents are doctors as are all his cousins and uncles.
“Nearly ten people in my family are doctors, but I am the only one who chose acting as a career,” says Vamsi. After his MBA, he wanted to start his own business, but at that time, this film came along.
“After my debut film, I worked really hard and learnt that it’s not easy to get good roles when you don’t have any backing,” he says. “But I was confident that I would get through one day with my hard work and talent,” says Vamsi.
Though he has acted in nearly 25 films in the last 12 years, he got noticed only in Darling and most of Trivikram’s films. Even though he played one of the leads in Teja’s 2006 film Oka Vichitram, it failed at the box-office. He then tried his luck in the Tamil movie Thadaiyara Thaakka a few years back. “I got good roles in Tamil and now I am playing the main villain in many Tamil films,” says Vamsi who says he prefers keeping a low-profile in the industry.
“I don’t have friends in the industry and don’t party too. After my work is done, I just go home. If there is no work, I go to the gym,” he says. He admits, “I am still waiting for a good break in Telugu, though I am doing small roles here.”
But it is the Tamil industry that is offering good roles to Vamsi, as he has signed nearly a dozen Tamil films. “I also signed a Kannada film with Shivaraj Kumar where I am playing a villain,” he says.
After his debut film, Vamsi recalls that his friends discouraged him by telling him that the film industry would never encourage an outsider like him. “But I wanted to prove them wrong. I struggled initially like many others as I didn’t get good pay, but I had to survive here. My parents helped me financially at that time and luckily they encouraged me when I chose acting as my profession,” says Vamsi.
