MollywoodIn recent times, many female actors like Navya Nair and Meera Jasmine who disappeared earlier, have begun floating back to films not just to play the big sister or mother, but to make their presence felt.It is somehow a comforting moment when Lalu Alex and Manju Warrier, playing father and daughter in Jo and The Boy, talk about her marriage like it is something she has to do having touched 30 years of age. When the film came out, Manju was 36, not far off her screen age. Still, the scene is comforting because it has for the longest time been the forte of men to keep playing the guy just ripe for marriage decade after decade, while women would have long left the field by 30 or would be cast all too unfairly as mothers and grandmothers of men twice their age. But Manju Warrier, a woman actor in her mid-30s,...
- 5/28/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
OpinionVinayakan, who acted alongside Navya Nair in 'Oruthee', recently made some problematic statements, directing a few of them to a woman journalist.CrisCourtesy - Instagram / Navya NairMicrophones are thrust into her face, the same question asked over and over again – why did you not react? Navya Nair is admirably calm in the face of the repetitive question, answering for another actor’s doing. Vinayakan, her co-actor in Oruthee, a film she’s making a comeback with, made some problematic statements last week, directing a few of them to a woman journalist. It was a promotional meeting for Oruthee, and Navya was present on the stage along with Vinayakan and a few other men, including the film’s director Vk Prakash. But the questions kept seeking Navya, not the others. Those asking wanted to know, “Why did you (Navya) not react when Vinayakan said these things?” ‘These things’ include...
- 3/28/2022
- by Cris
- The News Minute
InterviewNavya Nair, an actor who won multiple state awards in a prolific career, is making a comeback to Malayalam cinema after 10 years with Vk Prakash’s film ‘Oruthee’.CrisInstagramAs the trailer of Oruthee begins, Navya Nair stands in front of a mirror and applies a bindi, and it’s almost like time had halted 20 years ago. The actor looks like she stepped out from the sets of Nandanam – one of her first films in Malayalam as a 16-year-old – and came straight to Oruthee, her comeback film that is releasing on Friday, March 18. It is not that Navya wanted to take a break, she was simply waiting for the right movie. In the years in between, she did two Kannada films – remakes of the Malayalam Drishyam – in which she played Meena’s role, the wife of the protagonist. “Suresh Babu, Oruthee’s writer, approached me with the script and I chose...
- 3/10/2022
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
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