The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : From theatre to the silver screen

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Monday, Jan 23, 2006

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From theatre to the silver screen

Special Correspondent

Prabha Dutt from Bangalore is all set to make it big in movies

Prabha Dutt — Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash

Bangalore: Remember Jasmine Cherian? Just to prod your memory a bit, she was the villain's confidante in the recent Malayalam movie Bharatchandran IPS.

The young woman from Bangalore, who played the role, is all excited. Because the movie is a hit, and because it is the first on the screen for Prabha Dutt, more active in theatre till now. Incidentally it was also Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi's comeback film after a few years' hiatus.

"The shooting was held for several weeks around the Bolghatty Palace in Kochi and fast paced... I thoroughly enjoyed the experience," says the still excited Prabha. Language was not a problem because she is originally from Kerala and did her schooling at a residential school in Kollam. She later studied in Mangalore, and after a stint in sales and marketing with a firm in Bangalore, found her passion was in acting — live and onstage.

"There is something very different about theatre... you are in front of a live audience which reacts immediately to your every action and speech. Sometimes you have to react to the mood of the audience and ad-lit a bit to make things go. On stage, I feel like a queen, with the spotlights on me. And when the curtain goes down finally, I feel I have done my bit to the success of the play."

Of course there are constant rehearsals and reading of scripts but even they are a lot of fun, because she is in the midst of others who share her passion for theatre.

The acting bug has caught Prabha and now is she also in a Tamil film, starring Satyaraj and Karthik; she is paired with the latter. The heroine is Shreya Reddy. Bharatchandran IPS has been dubbed into Telugu and she is getting reports of its success in Andhra Pradesh. For the Tamil film too, she wants to dub her own voice as she did for the Malayalam movie. "The pip synch part of it is not too easy but I took it as a challenge, and as far as possible, I will try to use my own voice in every movie I do," she says.

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