Going one step further

Theatre artiste, Frisbee champ and former national level cricket player Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli’s upcoming Tamil film, Kalam, is creating waves with its first-look motion poster. The Salt mango Tree fame actress, who was part of an interesting photo-shoot earlier, where she recreated the looks of her most favourite characters played by actor Kamal Haasan, talks about Kalam and her independent projects. “I am glad that the first-look motion poster is garnering rave reviews.

his film has a lot of twists and turns and can be called a suspense thriller. It has a lot of surprises in store for the audience! There are six important characters in the film and I play one of them. It will be a very unusual film, and we, the whole team, are looking forward to it. We are planning to release the teaser next week,” she says. The film is directed by debutant Robert Raj and the story and screenplay are by Subish K. Chandran.  

When asked if she is still into any form of sport — “Though I don’t play any international tournaments, I always look forward to national tourneys. I still play Ultimate Frisbee and in fact, I have a tournament in three months!”

The talented actress has another film titled Ticket directed by Raghav and a couple of untitled projects in her kitty. “I am listening to a few other scripts as well. Everything is in its nascent stage,” she says. Her independent feature film Revelation, directed by Vijay Jayapal, will also be screened at film festivals soon.