My career has come full circle: Trisha on Rajinikanth s Petta
"For years I ve been asked when I will work with Rajinikanth. Honestly this question has bothered me. It s time to finally shut all those people up as I join the sets of Petta from Monday (October 1) for a month-long schedule. I feel my career has come full circle " Trisha a die-hard Rajinikanth fan told IANS.
It s been her long-time dream to work with the "Kaala" actor.
"I ll always be a Rajinikanth fan first and then only his co-star. I ve met and interacted with him many times but I m sure it s going to be fun working alongside him."
Trisha is equally excited about her forthcoming Tamil release "96" slated for release on October 4.
In Prem Kumar-directed "96" she teams up with Vijay Sethupathi for the first time.
"This is one project I m really excited about. I m also quite nervous because of the highly positive pre-release buzz. I ve been reading posts on social media where people are already celebrating the film and that s making me nervous. We knew we were making a good film but we didn t expect this kind of pre-release hype."
Talking more about the project Trisha said: "I was quite intrigued by the script when I heard it the first time. The other factor that really drew me to this film was the opportunity to work with Vijay. It s a love story and we haven t worked before so it makes it a fresh combination."
"96" a unique love story revolves around two batch-mates from the 1996 batch Ram and Janu who meet 20 years later at the school reunion.
"Love is underplayed in the film. We don t play characters who express their love in words. We don t say it to each other but it still gets conveyed. You d find our performances very genuine because we didn t really act " she said adding that all the credit goes to the director.
"Prem is the kind of director who doesn t like to go for too many takes because he feels we d lose the spontaneity. Even if we d get a dialogue wrong he d still go ahead with the shot and correct the dialogue in the dubbing. We never felt like we were acting.a
On sharing screen space with Vijay Sethupathi she said: "He s the least intimidating star I ve worked with in my career."
"Neither does he have the star aura nor the actor s aura. If he had any kind of aura it d have been very intimating to work because he s an amazing performer. He made working with him very comfortable right from the first day onwards."
Recently seen in a few women-centric films such as "Mohini" and "Nayagia Trisha said she will continue picking projects she finds interesting.
"I m really not after women-centric scripts. If I find an interesting project I ll go ahead and do it. I m glad the shelf-life of actresses is changing. Actresses like Nayanthara and Anushka have been around for a long time and they re doing very well for themselves."
--IANS hp/ahm/
