Tamannaah Bhatia talks astir reinventing her vocation aft Baahubali during SCREEN LIVE.
When Tamannaah Bhatia made her southbound cinema debut with the Telugu movie Sree (2005) and the Tamil movie Kedi (2006), she was inactive successful her teens. Cinema was caller to her. The connection was caller to her. The radical were caller to her. And yet, 19 years and 80-odd films later, Tamannaah is simply a household sanction successful South India. Ahead of the merchandise of her caller film, Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, Tamannaah was joined by her co-stars Avinash Tiwary and Jimmy Shergill successful the 2nd variation of SCREEN LIVE, which is 1 of the flagship events of the recently relaunched SCREEN, the one-stop store for prime journalism successful Indian amusement space.
Talking astir her learnings from the archetypal conflict to marque a people successful a caller industry, and however Baahubali was a game-changer successful much ways than one, Tamannaah said, “Working with radical overmuch older than me, and successful a spot wherever I didn’t cognize the connection was 1 of my biggest learnings. I understood a wholly antithetic culture, and I tin present talk successful some Tamil and Telugu.” She added that the existent hustle started erstwhile she attained dizzying levels of occurrence arsenic a commercialized heroine done back-to-back blockbusters successful some Tamil and Telugu. “I had that commercialized success, but I was inactive bare arsenic an actor. I wanted to execute antithetic and challenging roles. The happening is erstwhile an histrion is doing commercially well, determination was a conception that moving distant from it and experimenting with roles was unnecessary. But my funda was hatke… I wanted to bash antithetic parts,” said Tamannaah.
It is astatine this juncture of her vocation that Baahubali happened, and changed things. “It was a gamechanger for everyone, and introduced the word pan-Indian movie that we each look to similar now. But what it genuinely did was to broaden my perspective,” pointed retired a alternatively pensive Tamannaah Bhatia, who reveals a alternatively absorbing question that popped up successful her caput aft the stupendous occurrence of the SS Rajamouli film. “How bash you bash thing bigger than Baahubali? What should I bash next? Do I bash thing bigger? Or bash I reinvent?”
It is this quest for reinvention that has been the standout facet of Tamannaah’s vocation successful the past decade. It is successful this signifier that she did films similar Thozha, Dharma Durai, Devi, F2, Sketch, Kanne Kalaimaane, Khamoshi, Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, and Maestro. These were films that not lone utilised her stardom, but gave her roles that pushed her to beryllium a antithetic mentation of herself. Tamannaah, the actor, got adjacent abstraction to radiance alongside Tamannaah, the star.
“Now, I americium starting different phase. In Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, I americium playing a relation that the assemblage hasn’t seen maine play before. Hope they bask watching the film,” said Tamannaah.
SCREEN LIVE with Jimmy Shergill, Tamannaah Bhatia and Avinash Tiwary.
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar is a heist movie doubling up arsenic an aggravated cat-and-mouse pursuit that spans astir 2 decades. The movie features Jimmy Shergill arsenic the relentless bull Jaswinder Singh, and 3 suspects — Mangesh Desai (Rajeev Mehta), Kamini Singh (Tamannaah Bhatia) and Sikandar Sharma (Avinash Tiwary). Directed by Neeraj Pandey, the movie would watercourse connected Netflix from November 29.
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