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Malavika Mohanan had a ‘very thrilling yr’. Even earlier than she’s finished celebrating the success of Thangalaan, she’s on the silver display once more together with her newest launch Yudhra. Shutting between Chennai and Hyderabad to shoot for movies, the actor is pumped when she speaks to Hindustan Occasions regardless of not having a ‘single day without work’ in three months. (Additionally Learn: Malavika Mohanan speaks out on the protection of girls, says she feels ‘helpless’: It’s a patriarchal mindset)
“As an actor, you at all times need to do numerous movies throughout languages. To have that in abundance is a temper lifter, so is working with artistes you admire,” Malavika tells Hindustan Occasions, including, “However working for 15-16 hours the place I’m simply comfortable to see a mattress on the finish of the day is difficult. So just isn’t getting time to spend with household or buddies.”
‘It’s a superb time to be an actor’
Lacking high quality time together with her household apart, Malavika is comfortable to now be referred to as an actor who has labored throughout movie industries. “Proper now, a superb movie will attain its viewers it doesn’t matter what. Malayalam motion pictures are getting their due, and Telugu movies are doing in addition to Hindi movies, if not higher. It’s a superb time to be an actor,” she says.
Malavika admits to having a ‘good time’ hopping industries as a result of she desires to work with Mani Ratnam, but in addition SS Rajamouli and Zoya Akhtar. “It’s a superb time to be an actor, particularly should you’re a lady, as a result of there’s a lot scope, and also you’re not restricted to a single house. It’s been so beautiful that my final launch was in Tamil (Thangalaan), now Hindi (Yudhra), and the subsequent one will likely be in Telugu (The Raja Saab),” she provides.
‘Made the very best of what got here my method’
When Malavika speaks of her profession, one wonders if she had some fastidiously charted plan when she debuted in 2013 with the Malayalam movie Pattam Pole. However what she narrates is extra serendipity. “We determine life as we stay, and the identical goes for my profession. After I began, I didn’t sit pondering I’d work with somebody. I used to be simply making the very best of what got here my method,” she explains.
It is also how she stated sure to Yudhra, she says. “I’ve resonated with movies like Dil Chahta Hai, Don or Gully Boy that Excel Leisure has produced. It was a contemporary younger forged with Siddhant (Chaturvedi) and Raghav (Juyal). My intestine intuition was that this might be a superb one. It’s a mixture of rationale and intuitiveness, which is how I wish to make most selections now. I can’t predict how a movie works, what issues is that I’ve enjoyable creatively,” says Malavika.
‘My buddies jokingly name me Bruce Lee’
One factor Malavika loved in her latest movies was the motion, she says. “I’ve finished a little bit of motion in Yudhra, and it’s been very cool. Sid could be very pleased with it; he’s been my greatest cheerleader. After I don’t discuss it, he nudges me to. I get pleasure from dancing, however it’s so enjoyable to drag off stunts,” says the actor, including, “Even in Thangalaan, I performed a tribal goddess who faces off towards Chiyaan Vikram, I had by no means seen a job like that written for girls in Indian cinema.”
Malavika additionally admits it’s time to painting girls as sturdy ‘bodily, not simply emotionally, mentally or as a pillar of energy for another person.’ “Only a few movies have feminine characters which are sturdy within the truest sense like most ladies I do know, mushy but can beat folks up. (snicker) My buddies have now begun jokingly calling me feminine Bruce Lee as a result of I’ve inevitably finished stunts in my latest movies,” she explains.
‘Prabhas fed me loads of scrumptious meals’
Now that Malavika has tried out motion, she’s able to faucet into a brand new style – romantic horror comedy. “The Raja Saab has the makings of a rom-com but in addition a horror comedy,” she explains, including, “I used to be ready for the precise movie to enter the Telugu movie trade with, so to get one during which my character has quite a bit to do is a boon. The movie is an out-and-out entertainer, and we’re midway via capturing it.”
Whereas her Telugu debut will likely be prepared for launch in April subsequent yr, she’s admittedly ‘having a good time on set’, due to her co-star Prabhas. “Prabhas has fed me fairly a bit…quite a bit. (laughs) Everybody who works with him can vouch for his generosity. And, he tends to ship loads of meals. It’s not like he’ll ship biryani and raita or a rooster curry…it’ll be 10-12 giant utensils with sufficient meals to feed a village. However it’s additionally essentially the most scrumptious meals I’ve had,” she rounds off.
