India, June 29 -- Actor Vijay Deverakonda spoke about his beginnings in the film industry at the launch of Dil Raju Dreams in Hyderabad on Saturday. The actor recollected getting picked for Sekhar Kammula's Life is Beautiful from 16,000 applicants and how the film changed his life.

Vijay spoke on stage about how he was desparate to get some footing in the film industry when he had auditioned for Kammula's film and said, "I remember in 2011 or 2012, I made a habit of opening the Idlebrain website to check if there were casting calls. Social media was not as prevalent as it is now. I vividly remember seeing that Sekhar Kammula is casting for a film called Life is Beautiful. When he made Happy Days (2007), I was still in the intermediate or...