The actress is back in K'Town and opens up on the film projects lined ahead
Actress Vega Tamotia is back in K'Town after a brief sojourn in New York. The actress opens up on the film projects lined ahead.
Chennai: Audiences remember her best for her titular role in Saroja, that rib-tickling, rollicking blockbuster that saw the petite Vega Tamotia make her foray into Kollywood. She followed it up with equally impressive performances in Vaanam and more notably, Pasanga, the critically-acclaimed heart-warmer in which she played a quintessential small-town village girl — even though she is far from it!
“And then, I took a break, yes, because I moved to New York!” she finally tells everyone who has been wondering about her absence from the Tamil screen. “I’ve been working on a lot of projects abroad. Getting into production was a huge step I took — first it was the period film Chittagong, another Punjabi flick, and now a children’s series. But now I’m back and I’m eager to act in Tamil films — which according to me, produces the finest cinema in the country. I will forever be grateful to director Venkat Prabhu for giving me such a huge platform,” says the Chhattisgarh native.
Having spent most of her early days and education in Sydney, Australia, Vega now shuttles between New York and India. But she doesn’t let the distance deter her film career, “There are lot of conversations happening with directors in Chennai, and I’m always interested in a good script, even if I have to play a 60-year-old woman in it!”
But in the meantime, she was busy making a stringent mark in Bollywood, with the period film, Chittagong based on the Chittagong armoury raid of 1930 that featured her in the historical character of Pritilata Waddedar, a freedom fighter. “Acting alongside the likes of Manoj Bajpai was a terrific experience. The role involved a lot of research, reading up a number of documents and being clad in a khadi sari throughout! But who’d have thought I’d land a RomCom after a film like this?” smiles Vega.
That’s exactly what happened — her next Hindi film is Amit Sahni Ki List, where she plays the lead role opposite Vir Das. “It’s very different from all my earlier roles, and something that’s close to my real life persona. I had to play the violin and dance ballet in the film, so that involved some serious preparation. Working with Vir? Well, when you go to a stand-up comedy show, you are entertained and laugh your guts out for an hour — now imagine that for a couple of months non-stop! It’s the best experience ever,” she signs off.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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