Actress

The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.

WCC is not an arbitrator, it's a collection of people who represent and protect the interest of women in cinema. We are an organisation that facilitates solutions for a just work space and don't see ourselves as arbitrators of justice.

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time.

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

As an artiste, you get a high when you are given roles that are challenging.

I don't believe in cutting down or increasing the number of films I do.

Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.

I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.

I am never disappointed in life in not getting any awards: it is the movies which keep me going, not the awards.

It's not only the story and the script that matter to me but also the people whom I work with.

Hyderabad is home after all. This is where I grew up.

Actually, I am a typical middle-class girl.

As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors for having given me characters with substance, as I have never gone around asking for a role.

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

As an actress I am totally open to offers as an individual and want to treat every opportunity with same spirit.

However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.

Tamil has given me an experience that's extremely rich from Vishnu's Pattiyal' to Chimbudevan's Irrumbakottai,' to even a small significant role in Ram's Thangameengal.'