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The world is a screenplay

Renil Routh

The pretty Renil Routh is a Bengali born in Germany, brought up in New York and is now making a career in Telugu films. A couple of years back when her parents visited India for a vacation, Renil got her first chance with an item number with Sukhvinder Singh for Choodiyan. Her pictures got circulated and she was picked for the heroine’s role in 18, 20 Love Story being directed by Radha Krishna.

Renil started training in Kathak under the tutelage of her Satyanarayana Charkha since she was ten. “I was four when I took my dancing seriously and luckily for me my Guruji lives here in New York,” she says. She has trained under Pandit Birju Maharaj, Saswati Sen and 16 years of training in classical Indian vocal music from Anuradha Khanna, Kinner Seen, four years of modern, ballet, jazz, hip hop, belly dance lessons from W.C. Bryant High School, Binghamton University and the Broadway Dance Center. The debutante actress has been shuttling between New York and India all her teens sometimes training and mostly performing with the troupe in all the metros. “People keep asking if the language is a problem, it hasn’t been at all. Guruji would speak in Telugu to his family and I would understand, I’m not completely an alien,” she says. It’s just her first film but Renil speaks like a thorough professional and adds that the entire process of acting is to internalise any emotion that the story expects her to. 18, 20 is not a period love story, it is about an 18-year-old girl in love with a twenty-something boy. Renil has Sivaji and Shradda Das as her co-stars. She is the surprise element and shares a considerable screen space with the hero.

Are Hindi films calling? “It’s very good money, but you need to have your strategy in place, a plan of action,” even as the lady applies that last brush of pink on her cheeks. What Renil is hoping for after speaking and mastering tongue twisting Telugu and Tamil dialogues is to work with Surya and Mahesh Babu. She says, “I’ve seen the Tamil Gajini and Telugu Pokiri, they are amazing, I’m very happy running around trees.”

Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY

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