Nitya Menen picks Sandalwood over others
Kavya Christopher
The name's Mynaa, and it's about a couple who currently lives in Chennai. Kannada film director Nagashekar has roped in Nootrenbadhu girl Nitya Menen to play the lead role opposite Chetan in this love story.
"Nitya plays a physically challenged girl. We chose her because she is the only fab actress who can carry off such a challenging role," says Nagashekar, who adds that he plans to release the film in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
Incidentally, Nitya has been a part of two Kannada films earlier, 7 o' Clock and Josh, albeit in smaller roles.
"Technically, this film will mark her actual big entry into Sandalwood," adds the director, "We picked up the story based on a case handled by Assistant Commissioner of Police — BB Ashok Kumar. Till date, the top cop has handled 94 serial murder cases, and we have converted one of them as the plot for this film. It is interesting because this was the only case wherein the cop sympathised with the criminal, so much so that, he even allowed him to escape. Chetan, plays the lead as the guy who commits 35 murders — only for the sake of his girl. Yet another interesting matter is that, the couple continues to live together even today, without having consummated their marriage."
Sarath Kumar has been roped in to essay the role of the top cop. The rest of the impressive cast includes Girish Karnad, Suresh Heblikar and Suman Ranganathan.