After enrapturing audience with her wink, actress Priya Prakash is all set to woo with her performance in the star-studded upcoming film Bro. The actress speaks to the Hyderabadi media about her role, working with the uncle-nephew duo, and more.
K. Ramya Sree
It was just yesterday we informed you how excited actress Ketika Sharma was to be a part of Pawan Kalyan and Sai Dharam Tej blockbuster combination movie Bro, written and directed by Samuthirakani. Ahead of the film’s release on July 28, today we have on board another power heroine the wink girl aka Priya Prakash Varrier, who spoke to us about her role in Bro, acting with the mega clan and more.
Beginning with how she landed on the big budget project, the Ishq girl said, “When I watched the original work of Samuthirakani’s Vinodhaya Sitham, I actually kind of enjoyed watching the film. When director Samuthirakani called me, I gave the look test. Then there was no update about the film and I thought I am not doing the film. This year, in the beginning, they called me up and told me that I am part of the movie. I am extremely happy because I am an upcoming artiste and for me being part of this big movie with big stars, and you know sharing the screen space with the stars in one or two scenes is like a blessing to me. Samuthirakani told me that he actually saw a lot of people for this role and finally came thinking of me, and what more could I ask for.”
Just like her co-star Ketika, this Check girl too feels blessed to get a chance to work opposite legendary actor Pawan Kalyan. She said, “Although, I don’t have many combination scenes with Kalyan garu, he has a charming aura. He is so calm and composed. When he works on the film sets, it was fun seeing him, also everybody gets chaotic, when he walks in he is so calm and asks, “Ah tell me what you want me to do?” And it’s done in one single take. And as he walks out, people around him might run helter-skelter, but he is so gentle as a human being. For me, it’s the biggest lesson. Whatever stature you achieve in life, you should be always down to earth that takes you to places.”
In the beginning of the article we described Priya as the wink girl because she rose to fame over night with just that one wink. Sharing about the overnight fame and life after that, Priya said, “First of all, I come from a family with no film background. I have had nobody to guide me through. And what happened after that one wink – which went viral all over the internet – is that too many people around me telling too many things. So I didn’t know what to follow. I didn’t know who would guide me in the right direction. Yes, I might have made some mistakes and made some bad choices, I think after four to five years, I am making the right choices and making myself better.”
In this movie, Priya will be seen in a very different look from what audiences have seen her on the screen until now. Her character in the movie is that of a very simple and homely girl.
Further elaborating about her character arc in the movie and her bond with her co-star Tej, she said, “I think, the makers of Bro made a lot of improvisations. In the Tamil film, the movie scale is different. Changes are made according to Kalyan garu’s performance. Even the duration of Bro is more than the Tamil film. So eventually we have more sequences than the original film. I can’t exactly tell my role’s duration in the film, but you keep finding me throughout the film here and there. My chemistry with Tej was definitely a different experience. With Tej, we developed a really good bond on the sets. Whenever we’re on the sets, we’re always like pulling each other’s leg. He would make fun of me – always trying to get out of the mood. He is that naughty child on the sets. He had a lot of time to spend and chat on the sets. I made really good friends.”
Also, this is the first time that Priya Prakash has been working with such a big production banner in Telugu – the People Media Factory and she is super happy to work with them for the homely feeling the banner gives its actors.
Lastly, sharing some good thing about her director Samuthirakani, she ended the interview saying, “Samuthirakani sir knows what he wants. He has a lot of conviction. And only if he is 200 per cent sure of his actors he would go ahead with the project. When I was on set, because of the fact that he is an actor himself, he knows what he wants from us. He just comes and tells us what we need to do. We just exactly deliver what he is asking for. We don’t have to improvise – nothing more and nothing less. Being directed by such a senior actor was such an amazing experience.”
