Engineering the actor within
New Indian ExpressFormer Miss Karnataka Parvati Nair loved studies. The Tamil superhit film The Greatest of All Time actor topped her batch at the Manipal Institute of Technology. I, however, did a few In 2012, she also did Yakshi: Faithfully Yours, a Malayalam romantic fantasy film that had a theatrical release in a few halls, and was also dubbed in Hindi. “I also did a coming-of-age film Nee Ko Njaa Cha in Malayalam.” Even though Nair rejected many successful films initially, she admits that there was never a dearth of offers that saw her do films like Story Kathe, Ninayathe, Koditta Idangalai Nirappuga, Enkitta Mothathe, Overtake, Nimir, 83, Dhoomam, and Super Zindagi, among others. With time, there was a lot of convincing that happened, and my elder brother also spoke to my parents to let me pursue a career in the movie industry.” Admitting that the film industry has changed over the last decade, especially for women, Nair says, “Senior actresses were retiring when I started as they were not finding roles after getting married.
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