The girl brimming with Malayalitham
After a short break, anchor Anusri S. Nair is gearing up for her Mohiniyattom performance at the Vyloppilly Samskriti Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram, on Saturday
By : cris
Update: 2015-12-01 23:31 GMT
You know how you retain images of people you see on television. Something about them — their expressions or the sound of their laugh —stays with you. In the case of Anusri S. Nair, it has got to be her smile, the fully open happy smile that is not fine-tuned for the sake of a camera. And then there is her easy speech. Going on television is not easy.
People go with scripts, with prepared notes, with practised speeches. So much that sometimes you wonder if an interviewer is actually listening to any of the answers a guest gives, because all her focus seems to be on producing that next question in the list.
But Anu speaks on the screen like she is having a friendly chit-chat back in her living room. She has been doing it for many years now, and never stopped loving it. This week, she is going on stage in Thiruvananthapuram but not as an anchor. She is having a Mohiniyattom performance this Saturday at the Vyloppilly Samskriti Bhavan, after a break.
“I have been learning and performing since I was a child. But once I got happily settled in my IT job, I was beginning to get out of touch with classical dance. So I went to do an MFA in Bharatanatyam,” Anusri says.
Dancing some days for eight hours at a stretch made her realise she should get back to it seriously. It has always been Bharatanatyam that she has pursued academically but a lot of the time, she would get called for Mohiniyattom. “Probably because of my Malayalitham,” she laughs.
But the love for dance and television never took her away from her IT job. “I take my profession very seriously, and I do not take leave for pursuing my passions. It’s on weekends I go.” And she takes such pains to come long distance for her television shows, only because she loves interviewing people and getting the best out of them. “And then remembering them as that.”
After long years in Hyderabad and a stint in Malaysia, Anusri is in Kochi and wishes to start a dance class, while also balancing her work and personal life.
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