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Manjima Mohan used the lockdown to begin an online initiative called One in a Million that sought to promote new talent. Those months were a reality check for many. I realised that there are so many talented people without a platform to put themselves out there. My friends recommended that we start an Instagram page. Now that we have more time, we hope to make the initiative bigger, says Manjima, who plays the female lead in Kalathil Santhippom (KS).
Here, she discusses the film, her take on women-centric cinema and more. Excerpts:
The pandemic ended up offering an unplanned break to many artists. How did you deal with it?
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Gautham Karthik will be teaming up with debutant director Arun Chandran for a film titled Chellapillai. The pre-production work is almost complete, and the film will go on floors this September.
“Chellapillai is a mass entertainer and it will remind the audience of something they should be proud about. Gautham Karthik will be seen in a completely different light in this film.
When Karthik sir was doing films like Varusham Padhinaaru, he changed the course of his career and gave us films like Paandi Nattu Thangam and Kizhakku Vaasal. Similarly, we believe this film will be a benchmark project for Gautham.
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With Virumaandi coming out on Amazon Prime Video tomorrow, the cast and crew of this classic are back in the spotlight again. For Abhirami though, who settled in the US following the Kamal film s release, her role in Maara has already made her a topic of conversation.
Abhirami, who returned to acting a decade after the release of Virumaandi, has since been cautious about her choice of roles. In Maara, she plays the role of a sex worker, one played to great effect by the late actor Kalpana in the original Malayalam film, Charlie.
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How did Maara happen?
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Directors funding the first project of their assistants is not a common occurrence, with a handful of filmmakers like AR Murugadoss, Shankar and Mani Ratnam doing so. Karthik Subbaraj now joins that list as he has turned producer for Triples, made by his erstwhile associate, Charukesh Sekar. I ve tried to incorporate my learnings from Karthik Subbaraj in this web series, including staging and drawing best performances, says Charukesh.
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Karthik, your recent films like Mercury and Petta have not had your brand of humour seen in earlier films like Pizza and Jigarthanda. Was this why you were drawn to this project?
The word ‘war’ usually conjures up images of uniformed men fighting with weapons.
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The word ‘war’ usually conjures up images of uniformed men fighting with weapons. But what about the women who took as much, or more, risk as their male counterparts and fought for their countries in their own ways? Till the end of World War I, women’s contribution to war efforts were limited to cooking, laundry, providing first aid in war zones, and indirect services such as working in farms and munition factories to replace men drafted to the army.