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Bengaluru, Her life revolved round a set of mundane guidelines – house, work, house, and dosas for breakfast each single day. Naturally, it’s with a resigned sullenness that Prerna goes about her life in ‘Swathi Muthina Male Haniye,’ within the course of pulling out all of the “full stops” reserved for feminine leads in movies.
For Siri Ravikumar, who simply received the Finest Actor award in Kannada language movies class on the 69th Filmfare Awards-South, for her portrayal of Prerna, it’s the varied shades of gray that made Prerna – that which makes somebody a human – which might be usually denied to characters, particularly ladies characters, in Indian cinema.
“Sure, it has taken some time for Indian cinema to evolve by way of displaying ladies in a specific gentle. However even these so-called women-oriented movies, the place, you already know, she is portrayed because the boss – she is all the pieces – are additionally fairly skewed. You possibly can’t actually have a girl in such a very good gentle on a regular basis. You also needs to present what she is dangerous at, what works for her, what doesn’t work for her and what she does that work or doesn’t work for others,” Ravikumar instructed PTI.
That is the place Ravikumar stated she lucked out. The characters she has performed to this point are as flawed as any lady is in actual life. Even in her very first movie as feminine lead, ‘Sakutumba Sametha’ , her character Shraddha is “approach too confused” for an everyday heroine.
“I’m lucky sufficient to have gotten roles which have sort of damaged a variety of obstacles. If we take ‘Sakutumba Sametha,’ what appealed most to me was the character of the woman and her confusion, the central level of the movie. You at all times see your protagonist as the proper one, with no flaws, having discovered life. However then there was Shraddha, all confused about what she needed in life,” stated Ravikumar.
A Bengaluru-based radio jockey who was actually into theatre, Ravikumar started her movie journey in ‘Harikatha Prasanga,’ the debut directorial enterprise of Ananya Kasaravalli, the legendary Girish Kasaravalli’s daughter.
“It was a small position. I used to be referred to the movie by Prakash Belawadi, who can also be my guru, I may say, in theatre. After I went for shoot, I had no thought what taking pictures for movies was like. After I got here again from taking pictures after 10 days, I nonetheless could not perceive what filmmaking was all about,” stated Ravikumar.
However small roles in movies got here her approach quickly after, like Nationwide Award successful Kannada director P Sheshadri’s ‘Beti’ and Hemant Rao’s ‘Kavaludaari’ . Lead roles in a few internet sequence, one among which by no means actually noticed gentle of the day, and an commercial for Cadbury adopted.
Then Rahul P Okay and author Pooja Sudhir, who had labored along with her in one of many internet sequence – the one “that by no means took off” – approached her with ‘Sakutumba Sametha.’
“By then, slowly my curiosity grew and I grew to become fascinated with movies as effectively. It felt superb to present life to these characters. Being a part of all these tasks gave me confidence that I may do any position. It is simply adjusting to the distinction between the stage and the digital camera. I realised that’s all it takes. That shift is what I needed to be conscious of,” stated Ravikumar.
And when ‘Sakutumba Sametha’ occurred there was no trying again, she added.
Ravikumar additionally thinks a ‘lady movie’ doesn’t essentially want a girl director.
“There are filmmakers like Hemant Rao and Shishir Rajmohan who’re very delicate to the character of what a girl would need or what she would wish to inform within the position or in a specific scene. I bear in mind Shishir asking me for a girl’s perspective. So, when there’s artistic collaboration like that, it turns into fairly inclusive,” stated Ravikumar.
However she agrees that when a girl tells a narrative, typically quirky elements of being a girl come out rather more fluidly.
“Particularly Roopa Rao , I feel, has that high quality. I actually wish to work along with her. There’s that sense of one thing that I can’t put into phrases. It is a sensitivity. Possibly, sometime I’ll work with a girl filmmaker,” stated Ravikumar.
On condition that her fascination for movies has grown immensely in these years, Ravikumar hopes to someday direct movies too.
“I don’t know if I’m prepared to inform a narrative but. However there are a variety of concepts and I’m additionally glad there are a variety of ladies filmmakers round who’re fairly inspiring. I hope it is going to occur sometime,” stated Ravikumar.
For now although – now that she possesses the coveted Black Woman – Ravikumar is completely happy that she was steadfast in selecting movies by which character arcs emerge from the extraordinary, and typically seemingly mundane, elements of life.
“When you ask me, I feel what we actually want is extra folks telling ladies tales moderately than making women-oriented movies,” stated Ravikumar.
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