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Arunthathi who marked a place for herself in Naigal Jagirathai is all set to prove her mettle in the action sequences in Arthanaari directed by Sundarra Elangovan who had earlier associated Director Bala. 'Arthanaari is an action based script, the story is based on the true life incident which inspired me a lot. I don the role of an undercover cop which is quite challenging to me. I underwent a complete make over for this project with lot of home work being done for my character. I was sent for a training under a cop for two weeks , I learnt how to hold a gun and trigger it too. I attended stunt classes and learnt different jump and kicks which was complicate too but that was a thrilling one to do. My Director was so particular that he wanted me to learn all that was required for my role be it stunt or dance. My director suggested few movies to watch as a reference for my character "The Blue Steel, The Bone Collector, and Mardhani. Trust me i accumulated lot of energy after watching these films. Now after watching 'Arthanaari' i could feel the same energy in me,such is the intensity of the script.I should thank my stars that i am lucky to get heroine oriented script in the beginning of my career. Before we could start the shot of Arthanaari i had couple of workshops for my character. Arthanaari is not the usual cop role, here the toughness is much more intensified than the other films." "I got injured during a stunt sequence in my ankle , it was intense pain no doubt but the pain vanished when accolades poured from the unit for the dare devil act.Right from my child hood i had been a great fan of Vijaya Shanthi madam, and i am sure 'Arthanaari' will give her plenty of pride as my idol' concluded Arunthathi.
Vani Jairam to be honored
Mudhra will present the Mudhra Award of Excellence to Vani Jairam, during their 12th fine arts festival. Vani Jairam is a noted devotional and playback singer, lyricist and composer, who has enamoured music lovers with her mellifluous voice. The songs she has rendered in films are truly timeless. Vani Jairam is also an accomplished bhajan and devotional singer and she is known as someone who can traverse octaves with ease. This award is just another feather to her cap.
Rajamouli suggestions helped me lots – Krish Jagarlamudi
Krish Jagarlamudi became a director to look out for with each film of his right from his first film, Gamyam and his character, Gaali Seenu became the epitome of guy who is stuck with bad influences in life but highly good at heart. After that he took giant strides by making another multi starrer yet again this time even more subject oriented in artistic way. The movie Vedam, became a take off point for Allu Arjun, the actor. Even Anushka, Manchu Manoj proved their talent with different roles. Krish had a speed breaker of sorts with Krishnam vande Jagadgurum and took a break from filmmaking to direct Akshay in Hindi. Then, he surprised everyone with a movie like Kanche with new actors. Movie won the National acclaim and he yet again surprised everyone with his decision to direct a movie like Gautamiputra Satakarni with Balakrishna as his 100th film.The move was a very gutsy one and the director interacted with Media to answer about the movie, the making and everything about. Few interesting things from the interaction are that Krish once decided to make the movie had a talk with SS Rajamouli, who advised him about looking after the time period he set for release and plan accordingly. The two important suggestions were to not depend on graphics mostly and minimise the work on them as much as possible. The second one was that after watching the trailer, Rajamouli suggested him to get the sound right as that can make or break the film. The director took both the suggestions and worked hard on them it seems. Krish also said that he had a great belief on the subject and wanted to make it from young age. But he seriously set to write only after Kanche and it was his Mom, who implanted the idea of Satakarni during his growing years by taking him to Amaravati. Even he got intrigued as the villages and towns had very unique names from usual. He took to research and his friend Karnan helped him a lot in finding the story it seems. He said he had no ideas to take it on National stage like Bahubali as he looked at the movie as a Telugu King’s story.He also saidHe also said movie has scenes that Telugu people would easily connect to than others. When asked about the time period he said he only took from the available history articulated and made a story out of what he felt interesting in the time period of 78 – 110 CE. That was the rein of Gautamiputra Satakarni. When asked further about the research he did for the two women characters, he said there was lot written about his wife Vashishtha Devi but not much about Gautami Bala Sri. He praised Balakrishna for putting in lot of efforts in the stunts even though they had stunt performers. He exclaimed it to be the raw footage of what Balayya did that we see on the screen. Well, he concluded saying it will be a semi biopic movie about the first Telugu Emperor of India.