The Tamil film is a complete commercial entertainer,” she says.
“Sudheer’s film took some time because it shifts between two time periods. In the last one year, Kalyani has also been working on another Telugu film - a gangster drama directed by Sudheer Varma and co-starring Sharwanand - apart from shooting for her Tamil debut directed by P S Mithran and co-starring Sivakarthikeyan. It’s almost poetic and the essence of it is lost if you try and rearrange the words,” she explains. There was a lot of help and I liked the way director Kishore Tirumala writes his dialogues.
“I think young girls will be able to relate to my character. Hello released in December 2017 and till date, Kalyani is addressed by her character name ‘junnu’ by some of her social media followers.Ī year and four months later, she’s eager to see the response for her second Telugu film,Ĭhitralahari. “I never thought I would debut in a Telugu film it was my destiny to take up a film that, incidentally, was about destiny,” she laughs. When she finally decided to become an actor, she thought she would ideally debut in languages she knew best - Malayalam or Tamil. I couldn’t digest that Mohanlal killed my mother in the film,” Kalyani recalls. So it was terrifying to see how the two people who matter to me were pitted on screen.
Mohanlal is our family friend and I would call him uncle. “When you are very young, you remember something if it’s scary or amusing. One of Kalyani’s first movie memories is watching the 1988 Malayalam film,Ĭhithram, directed by Priyadarshan and starring Mohanlal, Ranjini and Lissy among others.“I was still figuring out where I would belong,” she says. Later while pursuing architecture at Parson School of Design, New York, she worked backstage for a few Broadway shows. So she studied in Singapore, during which time she also pursued theatre and learnt the basics of acting, directing and stage production. Before she could make that decision, she had to have a good academic background: “My dad felt I should give education priority since it will help me think better and differently from others,” Kalyani recalls. She always knew she wanted to work in films, but she wasn’t sure in what capacity. MetroPlus ahead of her second Telugu filmĬhitralahari, which is scheduled to release this Friday. When my holidays ended and it was time to go back to school, I would feel a bit lost,” Kalyani remembers, talking to “I have these memories of watching my dad thoroughly enjoying his work and I would have so much fun on the sets. A career in cinema was a natural choice for Kalyani Priyadarshan, given the fact that she grew up spending her summer vacations on the sets of the films her father (Priyadarshan) directed and also watched her mother’s (Lissy) films.
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