India, Aug. 26 -- In his over two decade-long career as a leading man, Kannada actor Vijay Raghavendra has had some ups and more lows, a time in which he's had several realizations about what works for him as an artiste, The actor, who is currently promoting his next, a suspense thriller called Rippan Swaamy, which releases on August 29, reminisced about his early days as an actor and how that shaped his filmography later on.

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Speaking to Metrosaga, Vijay Raghavendra said that in the first 10 years of his career, he steadfastly followed a diktat his father had given him -...