In the second edition of SCREEN LIVE, Sikandar Ka Muqaddar stars Tamannaah Bhatia, Avinash Tiwary, and Jimmy Shergill were the guests as they discussed the Neeraj Pandey film, their careers being outsiders, and more. Tamannaah Bhatia, who has been a household name in South Indian cinema for nearly two decades, opened up about the challenge of following up the success of the epic film Baahubali1.
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When Tamannaah made her south cinema debut with the Telugu film Sree (2005) and the Tamil film Kedi (2006), she was still in her teens. Cinema was new to her, the language was new to her, and the people were new to her1. Yet, 19 years and 80-odd films later, Tamannaah is a well-established actress.
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Ahead of the release of her new film, Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, Tamannaah was joined by her co-stars Avinash Tiwary and Jimmy Shergill in the second edition of SCREEN LIVE, which is one of the flagship events of the newly relaunched SCREEN, the one-stop shop for quality journalism in the Indian entertainment space.
Talking about her learnings from the initial struggle to make a mark in a new industry, and how Baahubali was a game-changer in more ways than one, Tamannaah said, “Working with people much older than me, and in a place where I didn’t know the language was one of my biggest learnings. I understood a completely different culture, and I can now speak in both Tamil and Telugu1.”
She added that the real hustle started when she attained dizzying levels of success as a commercial heroine through back-to-back blockbusters in both Tamil and Telugu. “I had that commercial success, but I was still hungry as an actor1. I wanted to perform different and challenging roles. The thing is when an actor is doing commercially well, there was a notion that moving away from it and experimenting with roles was unnecessary1. But my funda was hatke… I wanted to do different parts,” said Tamannaah.
It is at this juncture of her career that Baahubali happened, and changed things. “It was a gamechanger for everyone, and introduced the term pan-Indian film that we all seem to like now1. But what it truly did was to broaden my perspective,” pointed out a rather pensive Tamannaah Bhatia, who reveals a rather interesting question that popped up in her mind after the stupendous success of the SS Rajamouli film. “How do you do something bigger than Baahubali? What should I do next? Do I do something bigger? Or do I reinvent?”1
It is this quest for reinvention that has been the standout aspect of Tamannaah’s career in the past decade. It is in this phase that she did films like Thozha, Dharma Durai, Devi, F2, Sketch, Kanne Kalaimaane, Khamoshi, Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, and Maestro1. These were films that not only utilized her stardom but gave her roles that pushed her to be a different version of herself. Tamannaah, the actor, got equal space to shine alongside Tamannaah, the star1.
“Now, I am starting another phase. In Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, I am playing a role that the audience hasn’t seen me play before1. Hope they enjoy watching the film,” said Tamannaah.
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