Malavika Mohanan talks about ‘Sardar 2’ and life between film sets

Malavika Mohanan is simply a self-confessed sneakerhead. We refrain from embarrassing her by not asking however galore pairs she owns. “I yet had to halt buying shoes due to the fact that my ma was similar determination is nary abstraction anymore,” laughs Malavika, who, fittingly, inaugurated the New Balance store astatine Express Avenue successful Chennai.

When she is not working, and is not dressed for a role, she lives successful sneakers. “Because I americium jumping from 1 airdrome to the other, oregon travelling. I emotion exploring, and it involves a batch of walking. I spell connected a batch of wildlife safaris.”

While she juggles antithetic things successful her idiosyncratic life, Malavika prefers not to bash the aforesaid erstwhile it comes to films. However, portion shooting for the soon-to-be-released Sardar 2 with Karthi, the histrion was besides moving connected Hridayapoorvam (with Mohanlal) and The Raja Saab (opposite Prabhas). “In a utopian world, I would person preferred being committed to 1 task and being successful that zone. But we don’t unrecorded successful an perfect world,” she laughs, adding, “Timelines kept shifting. Date clashes happened.”

All 3 roles she played were successful antithetic languages and wholly divers genres — a play spy film; a bosom warming drama; and a fearfulness comedy. While this fortunately did not impact the characters she played, Malavika says it did effect successful sleepless nights arsenic she travelled from 1 sprout to another. “It got truly tricky connected a batch of days.” Sometimes, she would onshore up astatine 1 acceptable and commencement speaking successful Tamil, erstwhile she had to talk successful Telugu. Well, you live, you learn.

In Sardar 2, Malavika plays a relation she considers unsocial to everything other she has portrayed before. “In this breathtaking spy thriller, I had to bash challenging enactment sequences. I went done a batch of method training.” She narrates however she had to ascent 200 metres by stairs, and leap from there. Even though she had the information of the harness, the situation was to get the assemblage connection right, support a choky halfway and agelong hands guardant astatine a definite angle. “Nerve wracking successful the moment, but an adrenaline unreserved later.”

Known for her versatility and prime of roles, her privation database includes romanticist films and a play play — wherever she gets to formal similar a princess. Next, Malavika is gearing up for a Tamil film. Details, of course, are inactive nether wraps.

After 12 years successful the industry, however does Malavika determine betwixt commercialized entreaty and originative restitution erstwhile choosing roles? “It’s a good equilibrium betwixt the two. I privation to scope arsenic galore audiences arsenic I can. You ne'er cognize what tin scope who, and it’s important to dabble successful each sorts of cinema and conscionable person amusive with it.”