Priya Mani is very excited, and why not? She is the actress who is going to light the lamp at the inauguration of the Indian International Film Festival (IFFI) 2007 in Goa on November 23.
And giving her company on the dais will be none other than Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan.
The Tamil actress, who was born and brought up in Bangalore, is the granddaughter of famous Carnatic musician and a well known All India Radio artist from Thiruvananthapuram, Kamala Kailasnathan.
Though Priya was introduced to films by Bharatiraja, she shot to fame with her second film, Balu Mahendra's Athu Oru Kana Kaalam where Dhanush was her hero.
And the years just keeps on getting better for the young actress. She recently won the Best Actress Award for her role in one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed films of 2007, Ameer's Paruthiveeran at the 9th OSIAN Cinefan film festival for Asia and the Arab world. Paruthiveeran was judged the best film at the festival too.
Her second Tamil film, Malaikottai, a typical commercial potboiler had a good run at the box office too. If she was a rural belle in Paruthiveeran, she was a glamorous doll in Malaikottai.
Shobha Warrier caught up with the actress for more on her films, roles and how it feels to be rubbing shoulders with SRK. Excerpts:
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