" I love to do homely roles " Sri Vidya

( BY N.THYAGARAJAN)


In mega serial Megala Sri Vidya is shown as an innocent girl unexpectedly marrying a drunkard and leads her fearful life with him on one side, and with the worries of her father who runs away from home after a heavy bankruptcy. The serial is telecast on the Sun TV Channel on Mondays to Fridays caught the eyes of many, when the story line of the serial took a sudden twist immediately after the marriage of the Sri Vidya and aftermath the running away of Deepan Chakravarthy.
A decade ago she was a child-artiste in various films. Today she is heroine in various TV mega serials. Miss Sri Vidya Aravamudhan is most sought after artiste nowadays to act in homely roles in mega soaps. " I always wanted to appear in homely roles. I don't want to be seen in any other roles, for I fear this might create a bad impression about me among the tv viewers" speaks Sri Vidya to this reporter.

Whenever a production company offered her to do roles for their soaps, this actress' father Aravamudhan who is looking after the schedules of his daughter will visit the production companies to know the role of his daughter in the serial. It is only after the satisfaction her father she would sign to act in the serial.

Sri Vidya says, " There was no objection when I started acting for the film, because, then I was hardly seven years. I was freely, then allowed to act in films as a child artiste".

The acting career began for Sri Vidya when she was asked to do a small girl of the film's heroine Roja for the film Unnidithil Ennai Kodhuthen produced by Lakshmi Movie Makers. Besides, she was asked to do small characters in Bala, Nanda, Budget Padmanaban. But in the film Ennaveley she did the role of Sneha's sister and in Sillunnu Oru Kadhal she acted as Jothika's sister.

Now she is acting in the Telugu mega serial Mouna Ragam being telecast on Zee Telugu. She does the role of a heroine whose love to take care of the people's problem of her own. The serial is a successful one with more than 275 episodes has won laurels to Sri Vidya.

The turning point to act in matured roles came to the actress when she did the Shakthi character for the director K.Balachander's Sahana mega-serial for the Jaya TV. The director showed her as a matured girl in the serial. " The role has fetched me good name" recalls the actress.

In Kolangal she is doing the role of Aarti by marrying an auto driver. Besides, she did a lot of role in yesteryears AVM's Nimmadhi, Malargal.

At present she has been asked to do a heroine role for the Kalaignar TV's mega serial under the direction of Manobala. " I like the character in the serial very much and I will continue to act as long as I act in homely roles " says Sri Vidya.

Sri Vidya very recently finished her plus two examination has become a student of the commerce group and is doing her degree. Each and every bit of moment for the progress of Sri Vidya, Aravamudhan leaves sometimes his tax consultancy business to his subordinates and is full attentive in taking her to various shootings.