Methil Devika
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On a heat Sunday night time in the summertime of 2016, the total home on the St. George Parish Corridor in Kalady, close to Kochi, was handled to a exceptional theatre manufacturing. The play Naga, directed by Suveeran, was an adaptation of Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala.

The shock package deal of the night time was the efficiency of Methil Devika within the lead feminine position. She belied her complete lack of expertise in performing along with her beautiful efficiency as a younger spouse.

However those that have watched her carry out Mohiniyattam wouldn’t have been too shocked. She is a gifted danseuse who excels in classical dance’s each component, together with performing.

However performing past dancing was one thing Devika had not been eager about. She has been rejecting affords of main roles in Malayalam films ever since she was 17. A few of them had been from famend administrators and for movies that went on to grow to be massive field workplace hits.

She has no regrets. She is, nonetheless, lastly making her debut in movies with the Biju Menon starrer Kadha Innuvare, which opens in cinemas on Friday.

“I preferred the script and my position, so I made a decision to do the movie,” Devika tells The Hindu. “The director Vishnu Mohan had been speaking to me in regards to the movie for a yr and a half and I felt it was one thing I may do.”

She says she didn’t do movies earlier as a result of she was preoccupied with dance, not simply as a performer, however as a choreographer and academician. “I knew that I couldn’t have accomplished no matter I needed to in dance if I had stated sure to movies earlier,” she says. “I couldn’t have accomplished a Phd or made movies on dance. In addition to, I didn’t wish to be a dancer from the celebrity one will get as a film star.”

About Kadha Innuvare, she says she loved taking pictures and dealing with Biju. “I’ve excessive regards for him as an actor, and thought he was wonderful in movies like Vellimoonga,” she says. “As for extra movies, I’ll do provided that I discover the roles interesting to me.”