at a time when our films are increasingly discussing the plight of the elderly actor vijay babu too has become part of such an initiative the actor who was seen latest in the gokul suresh gopi starrer mudhugauv acted in a short film on senior citizens titled signal its director dr vincent jose whose short film life sentence was selected for cannes a few years ago says that his new film is about how the elderly are treated in nuclear familiesvincent says vijay plays the role of a son who avoids his mother in the movie which is one of the prominent characters he was apt to enact a tough corporate guy and thus i reached out to him to play the role october 1 is international day of the elderly and the filmmaker says he wanted to showcase how their life is in the nuclear families of our society times are such that even pets get prioritised over the elderly once i decided to do the film i called vijay who was busy doing a tv show and i told him that i would just need a minute to explain the story after listening to it he was keen to do it the actor is also currently working on a road movie with parvathii nair in the female lead