We are truly, madly and
deeply in love with Genelia. She is bubbly and
chatty, just the way she
portrays her characters
effortlessly on screen. The
actress is glowing in the
aftermath of her recently released Santhosh Sivan's
period drama Urumi in
Malayalam. In this casual chit-
chat with Sridevi Sreedhar, Gene as she is known among
friends, opens up
How did you prepare for
the role?
Santhosh gave me an indepth
narration of the story and
Ayesha my character. His
research about the story of
Vasco Da Gama and his
knowledge is immense. He told me that my character
needs to be trained in
Kalaripayettu, a martial art of
Kerala which is a blend of
looking beautiful and tough at
the same time. The body posture and my expressions
had to gel. I used to practice
Kalari under Kalaripayettu
exponent Ulhas for at least
four hours a day. Santhosh
used to keep on briefing me about my character Arakkal
Ayesha, and me being a good
listener was hooked to the
role.
Off late you have been
criticised for being
repetitive and doing the
same bubbly girl in every
second film? Please
comment.
I believe that all bubbly
characters are not the same.
The presentation makes each
one different from the other.
It is not a call taken by the
actor and when something goes wrong, we have to take
the blame for it. But I consider
lucky for Urumi to have
happened at the right time. It
is a role very close to me and I
have to thank the entire team of Santhosh, camerawoman
Anjuli Shukla, co-producer
Mubina, my co-artists and
writer Shankar Ramakrishnan
who helped me a lot with my
dialogues. It was a treat to work with Santhosh sir.
How was it working with
Pritviraj and Prabhu
Deva?
Even though we were working
in extreme weather conditions
in difficult terrains, it was a
party on sets, thanks to
these guys. Both Prithvi and
Prabhu used to pull my leg saying that how can this
fragile girl fight hundreds of
tough men? (Laughs) But after
they saw the rushes they
said- "We salute you, you are
so convincing, which made my day" . Prithviraj helped me a
lot, Prabhu and me got along
so well.
Was Malayalam a difficult
language to handle?
Not really, with a wonderful
team like this, I was extremely
comfortable. And not to forget
that in Urumi, it was not the
normal colloquial Malayalam but
the Malabar slang used centuries ago. I love to
experiment in all languages
and I am so happy that Urumi
happens to be my first
Malayalam movie.
How is Velayudham
shaping up?
Like in Urumi, I play a serious
character in Velayudham. am
shooting right now for it and
its shaping up real well. It is
always a pleasure to work
with Vijay.
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