Looks like the dusky lass Amala Paul is in love with the camera. The actress says that she has been in and out of shoots and has seven projects lined-up, which are keeping her busy round the clock.
“Luckily, I am doing something I love the most,” she says.
The actress says that anything new is always exciting and the same is the case with her Sandalwood debut Hebbuli. Amala says that it was a mail sent by the Hebbuli director, S Krishna, which caught her attention.
“The director had detailed my characterisation and how he wants to portray me. I felt there was a sincere attempt from his end,” she says. “He didn’t want me in the film because I am popular in other langauges but wanted me for the actor that I am. I was impressed at the very first meeting and signed up.”
Amala is also ready to work in Kannada because she has close friends living in Bengaluru. “For all of us, Bengaluru islike Vegas,” she says. “I studied in a convent school in Kerala and our gang visited the city often on weekends. I have lived half of my life in Bengaluru and it has always been warm. My best friends there wanted me to do a Kannada film and were the happiest when I agreed to do this film.”
The actress says that the film as a whole also won her over. “The story carries an interesting message and it is a big film,” she says. “Krishna will do full justice to the script and in fact there were improvisations done on the location with Sudeep around. With the changes, my character only got bigger and better,” Amala adds.
After starting her movie career with a Tamil film Mynaa, Amala feels she is heading the right way.
“I have experimented with different chraacters very consciously,” she says. “Except for one Telugu film, I haven’t done movies that sees me running around trees or behind a hero. If I go to the sets and have no work to do, I get very depressed. I connect with my characters and films emotionally, and that is what keeps me going.”