Kadhalikka Neramillai star Nithya Menen – 'My choice of characters isn't deliberate, it's random'

This year, Nithya Menen was part of OTT projects – Malayalam web series Masterpeace and Telugu web series Kumari Srimathi – that had her essay roles that were as different as chalk and cheese. For those, who have been following her stellar career, this wouldn’t come as a surprise as she has always strived to make her characters different.

The poster of her latest Tamil film – Kadhalikka Neramillai – that was released earlier today and has her sharing screen space with Jayam Ravi, once again proves that Nithya is the true ‘pan-Indian’ star in all its sense.

Kadhalikka Neramillai is cute romantic drama: Nithya Menen

In an exclusive chat with OTTplay, without revealing much about the Tamil film that she has been shooting since the beginning of the month, the actress says, “It’s a cute romantic drama. I have also wrapped up a Hindi film that will be announced shortly.”

Is that the space that she had carved for herself in each of these industries that has now resulted in promising characters coming her way?

“I get asked this a lot, but this is my job – to do different characters,” she says. “It’s not a plan. It’s based on people’s personalities too. For me, I can’t keep doing the same characters over and over; that routine doesn’t work for me. But honestly speaking, those choices aren’t so deliberated. It’s random.”

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The actress further explains that some things just happen. “I remember somebody saying, ‘In a Satyajit Ray film, a dog comes in the way and in film school, we talk so much about why the dog came’. For all you know, the dog probably entered the frame by mistake and he couldn’t shoo it away,” she says.

Nithya Menen on her roles in Kumari Srimathi and Thiruchitrambalam

The actress explains that in her mind she doesn’t approach a character with any preconceived notion. “A lot of people said that my character in Kumari Srimathi looked exactly like the one in Thiruchitrambalam. But it’s not true at all,” she says. “It’s in the way people feel; they are probably making associations or dissociations; but honestly, I am just doing it as a project and each project is unique in its own way.”

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