A gifted dancer makes long-awaited debut on silver display

Methil Devika
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On a heat Sunday evening 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 bundle of the evening was the efficiency of Methil Devika within the lead feminine position. She belied her whole lack of expertise in appearing together with her gorgeous efficiency as a younger spouse.

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

However appearing past dancing was one thing Devika had not been eager about. She has been rejecting gives of main roles in Malayalam motion pictures ever since she was 17. A few of them have been from famend administrators and for movies that went on to turn out 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 12 months and a half and I felt it was one thing I might 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 carried out no matter I wished to in dance if I had stated sure to movies earlier,” she says. “I couldn’t have carried out a Phd or made movies on dance. In addition to, I didn’t need 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 glorious in movies like Vellimoonga,” she says. “As for extra movies, I’ll do provided that I discover the roles interesting to me.”