It is a Ramya wave
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Ramya is doing Gautam Menon's new film while Rakshita settles down to matrimony
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PHOTOS: V. SREENIVASA MURTHY
LOVELY LADIES Rakshita tends to home and hearth.
Kannada actors will be unemployed after they finish pending projects with a solution nowhere in sight in the standoff between the producers and workers.
The drawing boards are choc a bloc but nobody is able to plan a project with a time frame in mind.
While it is not easy for actors to cross over and sign films in other language, it is a different story for the actresses.
The top female star, Ramya, has struck it rich, creatively.
She is slated to do a Tamil film to be directed by the hottest name there, today, Gautam Menon. Riding on the super success of his much delayed Veteyadu Vilayadu, Gautam finished another film Pachaikili Muthucharam inspired by the book version of Derailed.
He had signed Surya and Deepika Padukone for his next film, Vaaranam Aayiram but the leggy lass, only one film old could not give the the necessary dates because of a prior commitment to do Farah Khan's film with King Khan himself.
Top stars like Asin were clamouring for the role but Ramya was summoned for a photo-shoot and a screen test. "Cameraman Ratnavelu and me were impressed with what we saw. I've not made an official announcement but we have more or less decided on her," says Gautam.
Ramya, who'd kept her fingers crossed, is relieved and excited. "It's not as if I'm deserting Kannada cinema. I've loved Gautam's films. He's a gentleman and a professional to the core. We hit it off well and I hope to have fun as well as hone my acting skills," says the feisty actress. Gautam's heroines are rounded characters not vacuous coquettes who flutter their eyelids in a frenzy.
while Ramya bags yet another rocking banner.
If Ramya delivers, it could well be Kannada filmdom's loss and Kodambakkam's gain.
Wild child tamed
"It's not an easy decision to make. I'm sometimes frightened of missing fame but I've decided and will stick to it," Rakshita said sometime ago. It takes guts to chuck fame and fade into matrimony but the wild child of Kannada cinema seems to have found her soul mate. She bid adieu after wrapping up Thayiya Madilu with Shivraj Kumar. Her five years in the industry were colourful. Her war of words with Ramya was devoured with devilish delight. She never seemed to be serious about her career.She did not lose weight like her father urged her to and her choice of roles left a lot to be desired. "Believe me it is people in the industry who have nasty things to say about actresses," she said after she broke up with Aditya. "I sometimes miss the endless partying but it can't go on forever," she said wistfully after deciding on Prem as her husband. Prem's family, it's said was wary about Rakshita going on outdoor schedules. Rakshita says she'll be assisting Prem in future. Will it be to help him or keep an eagle eye on the bevy of beauties surrounding him? Rakshita should have the answer soon.
S. SHIVA KUMAR
sshivu@yahoo.com
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