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A debutant’s dream
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Young Yasho Sagar is upbeat about his debut in Telugu films
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Budding artiste Yasho Sagar
“I’ve never felt this anxious before… not even before my Std X or college exam results. But now, I’m so tensed I’m not able to sleep properly,” says Yasho Sagar whose debut film Ullasanga Utsahanga is hitting the screen next week. The 21 something youngster born and brought up in Bangalore has a mixed parentage.
His mother is an Andhrite and father B.P. Somu is a native of Karnataka and is a well known producer in the Kannada film industry having produced more than 20 films.
His mother being a Telugu-speaking woman insisted that her son’s debut film should be in Telugu and thus Yasho Sagar after finishing his Bachelors in Management left for Mumbai to get some basics in an acting school. Yasho shudders to recollect his first day in Namit Kapoor School of Acting, “There is something about the school which I didn’t like, the teaching, the methodology etc, and I never went back. Instead I stayed on in Mumbai and had a whale of a time. It was a wonderful place, I got to interact with so many people and I hope to go back there some day.”
Sneha Ulal is his co-star in Ullasanga Utsahanga and directed by Karunukaran. The director met Yasho and his father at a party in Bangalore and that’s how the story idea germinated. The director took one year to get the script ready and another year including the post production work to finish the film. The actor says that was imperative for the quality of the film, three or four months were spent in discussions and there were days when they shot only a single scene or sometimes two and not more than that.
Yasho is very happy with the outcome, he had shown the film to ‘Dil’ Raju and Chiranjeevi, and they liked it and heaped praises on him. What about Sneha Ulal, does he think she resembles Aishwarya? He says, “Sometimes yes when she is not wearing her contacts. She has blue eyes but in this she will be seen wearing black lens. She wears salwar kameez throughout and looks every inch a south Indian girl. This is her debut film too and she had problems with the language initially. I felt really nervous when the first song on us was canned.”
Ullasanga Utsahanga is a love story and Yasho’s favourite song is Priyatama sung by Sonu Nigam which is climbing the music charts. When he is not shooting he is either watching films — at least four times a week in theatres — or happy staying at home playing games. “I love my own company and will take a while to make friends,” says the shy and budding actor.
Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY
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