Ajmal Ameer debuted in Malayalam with Pranayakalam but he has been missing from Mollywood after rubbing shoulders with Mohanlal in Madambi. The doctor was busy juggling hero and anti-hero roles in Kollywood in the meantime. ���Staying away from Mollywood was not a conscious decision,��� Ajmal clarifies. ���The fact is that I���ve been getting bigger and better offers from Tamil.��� The actor does not repent staying away from the Malayalam film industry.
���I don���t have many films in my kitty to boast of. But I believe that the few which I have been part of have been carefully chosen. There���s no point in doing a film just for the sake of doing it and adding to the number of films in your career. I want to maintain making smart choices that will never spur me to think ���Oh! I shouldn���t have done that film���,��� Ajmal says.
He���s waiting for the right script to come his way from Mollywood, even as he is gearing up to make his Telugu debut opposite Chiranjeevi���s son Ram Charan Teja in Racha, where he plays the anti-hero. ���I���m not waiting for films that give a push to my star value but those that have interesting scripts and different styles of presentation. That, precisely, is the secret of successful Tamil movies of recent times,���says the actor, who had acclaim coming his way for portraying the villain Vasanthan Perumal in Ko, which is continuing a dream run at the box office even after 200 days post release. Coming up for Ajmal in Tamil is Karppampetty where he does a double role, and Kadhirvel that has him playing a rustic villager.
Mollywood is waiting���