“I’d like to do comedy. Not simply me, I want extra ladies received to do humour on display screen. We’ve hardly explored this style with ladies within the lead. I can solely consider Magalir Mattum (1994) which got here out such a very long time in the past,” mentioned Keerthi. “After all, there was Kolamaavu Kokila (2018) which is newer, but it surely’s nonetheless a darkish comedy.”
Ladies snigger in life, too. They don’t simply go from one wrestle to a different. This side of ladies’s lives is one thing Keerthi needs to see on display screen. “All tales about ladies don’t need to be severe,” she mentioned. “I additionally wish to do characters which have gray shades. It doesn’t need to be all good or all unhealthy. Why ought to it’s a binary? That’s why I loved taking part in my position in Kannagi (2023)…as a result of it had shades of gray.”
Since feminine characters seldom have well-written arcs in mainstream cinema, the transitions that ladies undergo in actual life are not often represented on display screen. “There’s a lot extra to point out for girls,” mentioned Keerthi. As an actor, she usually will get roles that require her to hunt revenge on display screen. “It’s true that ladies face numerous issues in life and that features sexual harassment. However that doesn’t imply that each story with a lady as the principle character needs to be about surviving rape.”
Keerthi is acutely aware of the ability of cinema to affect the viewers. In that sense, such movies are certainly vital. “However after some extent, they develop into redundant. It doesn’t all the time need to be a couple of woman who goes by means of a really unhealthy expertise adopted by a “penne ezhundhu va” scenario. It could simply be her life journey,” she mentioned. Whereas ladies are subjected to numerous violence and discrimination in society, the perpetual position of the sufferer on display screen solely pushes them additional into a spot of powerlessness. “The unhappy half is that filmmakers are likely to assume solely such tales will probably be impactful for a lady character,” she added. “I’m glad to be an actor who may give her voice to such points, however that isn’t the one type of story we will inform about ladies.”
Gouri G Kishan: ‘I’m uninterested in roles which can be used to garner sympathy’
Gouri made her debut with the romantic drama 96 (2018), taking part in the schoolgirl model of Trisha. She additionally reprised the position within the Telugu remake of the movie, Jaanu (2020). The younger actor has since acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies.
