Not a typical shy geek type: Reshma Shenoy

Perhaps Technopark stays a tad too away from the city. That or something about the work culture of the people who go to work there gives them this image of a separate entity. ‘What do the Technoparkians think of this and that’, ‘oh they have a workshop’, and ‘oh they donated blood’.

But then they step out of those apparently hectic schedules once in a while and do something to remind us they are among us, with us, and have their little dreams and aspirations. Reshma Shenoy never left her job at RR Donnelley when she became a television anchor two years back and even when she turned to acting in films two months ago. That’s her job, this is her passion.

“I had finished my engineering and took up a job, working now as the associate administrator at RR Donnelley,” she says. Being in a corporate job and sitting in front of a computer all day and possibly some late nights has not given her the stage fear one associates typically to the shy geek types.

“I have always been interested in these stuff, it’s just that I never tried to go that route before, in school or college,” says Reshma. She had grown up in Kayamkulam, moved to Ernakulam later and is now in Thiruvananthapuram for her work.

It is one of her friends who asked if she’d like to act and if she could send photos for an audition for a film called Y by Sunil Ibrahim, who has earlier directed films like Chapters, Ola Peepi and Arikil Oraal. Reshma didn’t have to think twice, she said yes. By then, she has already done some anchoring. “That had also happened by chance after I accompanied my cousin to participate in a cookery show for Kairali TV in 2013. Sometime later, they asked if I’d like to anchor.”

She’s been anchoring a film show and a music show for Kairali TV, when another offer came from Mathrubhumi News to host a food show. “The shooting will be in the mornings and I have a night shift job, so it has worked fine so far.”

In Y, she plays the female lead Swathy, who is bold and positive and works in private sector. “It is a suspense-thriller which deals with an unexpected incident happening on a street. The film has more than 20 characters, most of them new faces,” she says.