Celluloid-fame Chandini Geetha has done only a couple of films, yet she is a familiar face to the Malayalam film audience; thanks to her role as Rosy in Kamal's Celluloid. However, the actress, who is now getting ready for the shoot of her third film, Sujith S Nair's Vakku, suggests that the fame is not as obvious to her as you might think.
“No one ever comes to me and asks 'Aren't you the girl from Celluloid?' In fact, even on the sets, I have to go to the senior actors and introduce myself as 'Chandini from Celluloid for them to realise I was the one who acted in it. I just had such a different look in the film that people can't understand that I'm the same person! My look in the second film wasn't much noticed either because it wasn't a commercial film. So Vakku will be the first time that people will see me in my original look," chirps Chandini.
Vakku takes a look at how parents give a lot of leniency to students these days for everything else, if he or she scores good marks and explores the ills they can lead to. Chandini will be playing the role of a studious, orthodox, Muslim girl in the film. Is she as studious as her character in real life? "Ummm. . . Not really" she says with a giggle and adds, "If you ask my teachers, they might not have too many complaints about me, but then they wouldn't have too much praise either. I just get average marks in my subjects. During schooldays, I was far worse. But by the time I reached Class XI, I improved and became an average student."
Referring to choosing to the long time she spends between projects, she says, "I only want to do interesting projects. I decided to do Vakku because it is written by Madhupal sir and someone as senior as Madhu Ambat is doing the camera. Everyone tells me that it is sheer luck to be able to even be a part of a frame set by Madhu Ambat. I realise that this makes it look like I'm on a break. I'll rather just take the break than project myself active in social media," she signs off.
