Where is Naga Chaitanya's First Heroine?
It seems ironic when actress Karthika claims that movies were not part of her career plan. After all, her mother Radha and maternal aunt Ambika were acclaimed southern actresses just a couple of decades ago.
“I’m a trained Kathak dancer and dancing interests me. Movie offers had been coming to me since I finished class 10 a couple of years ago. People wanted to see actress Radha’s daughter on screen, but we didn’t follow up on the offers,” explains the 17-year-old.
But when an offer to team up with debutant Naga Chaitanya came along, things changed. “Given that Josh was Naga’s launch vehicle, I knew I wouldn’t have much to do in the film. But I’ve been brought up to believe that it is not quantity but quality that matters. I loved what I did and have no regrets about the film,” says Karthika.
Strangely, the young actress has followed up this unimpressive start with an art house film, Makara Manju. And it’s the quality of the subject that drove her to take it up, she says. “It’s directed by acclaimed art house director Lenin Rajendran, stars noted cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan in the lead and has Madhu Ambat handling the camera. It may be made for film festivals, but this is the best start I could get for a career in Malayalam cinema,” she asserts.
Makara Manju, Karthika explains, is not a biopic on artist Raja Ravi Varma. “The film deals with only a segment of his life, the timeline being when he was painting ‘Urvashi-Pururavasu’. I play two characters: the artist’s muse for the painting and Urvashi,” elaborates Karthika.
Although Makara Manju is to be dubbed in Hindi and English, isn’t she worried that Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya, also based on Varma’s life, will steal their thunder? “I don’t think Rang Rasiya will affect us in any way. It is a much bigger production and talks about Raja Ravi Varma’s life in detail, while ours is a small, yet beautiful film that will stand out on its own,” she says. Unlike Rang Rasiya’s female lead Nandana Sen, skin show is not Karthika’s plan for the film. Makara Manju will be sensual, but not sexual,” she winds up.
Popular Posts
-
After a gap of seven years Mahesh Babu is releasing his film for Sankranthi festival. Puri Jagannadh has fixed release date for his movie w...
-
Distilled water has a pH of 7 (neither alkaline nor acidic) and sea water has an average pH of 8.3 (slightly alkaline). If the water is aci...
-
Indore: The Mumbai police has arrested the chief operating officer of an online survey company for alleged financial irregularities, police ...
-
The legend of Etain was the inspiration for numerous Celtic butterfly tattoos. This legend is a story that symbolizes love, treachery and tr...
-
Former Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA Bandaru Sara Rani is facing the charges of seeking sexual favours from her car driver Suresh, according...
-
Oregon Trail pioneer woman The first land route across what is now the United States was partially mapped by the Lewis and Clark Expeditio...
-
Pink heart wallpapers - Really Then Vice Principal Nero tells the children that if they keep failing their tests, they are going to be tut...
-
The latest development in the Sirish-Sreeja marital trouble case is that Sirish has surrendered himself in the Nampally Court after his vali...
-
Nature Gray Wallpaper Gray wallpaper by Spring Wallpaper gray by On February 2, 2007, however, it was announced that the game had been...
-
For teenage girls and young women the crop top was often worn, sometimes with a halter neck or else tied in a knot above the midriff. T...