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THAT'S KARTHIKA TOO!
The actress juggles between two films in two completely contrasting looks
Parvathy S Nayar
Talk of doing roles as different as chalk and cheese and no one fits the
The actress is thrilled about the fact that she is being directed by Bharatiraja, who introduced her mother, actress Radha, to K'wood years ago. "After doing a glamourous role in Ko, Annakodi is like a total volte face. Though, Bharathiraja didn't cast me because I'm Radha's daughter. We did a look test before I finally became a part of the film," she explains.
"Films with a rural background have been the in-thing in the South for a while now. But Bharathiraja has always been the master of the genre. AK will surely bear his inimitable trademark."
Tollywood director Boyapati Srinu's Dammu has her romancing Junior NTR. The mega-budget flick, Karthika says, is a commercial potboiler with all the essential ingredients of a hit. There's more in store on the Kollywood front, claims the actress. "I've been signed on for three Tamil films; but I am not allowed to talk about them as of now," she says.
parvathy.nayar@timesgroup.com bill better at the moment than actress Karthika Nair does. While she plays a rustic village belle in Kollywood film director Bharathiraja's comeback flick Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum (AK), Karthika will play an ultra-glam chic in the Telugu flick Dammu, both of which she's shooting for almost simultaneously. "It's challenging to be working on two films that have me playing roles that are so different from each other. Only a few lucky actors have such good fortune in their career," says the actress from the location of AK, in Theni. "I play four stages in Annakodi's life — her childhood, teenage, youth and old age, so that's a litmus test of sorts," says Karthika.
LOOKS DIFFER: Karthika in an ultra-glam look; (right) her rustic makeover in
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