Dipa Shah, who impressed Tamil audiences with her performance as a cop in her very first Tamil film Yudham Sei, is all set to impress yet again.
Only this time, the film will not be an action thriller but a romantic one. That’s right, the actress is now working on her next film, which is untitled.
Spilling the beans on her next project, Dipa says, “The film is being directed by Ravi and has actor Vimal apart from me in the lead. It is a brilliant script with which I fell in love the moment I heard it.”
The actress, who is known to have a fine taste when it comes to choosing good roles and scripts, continues, “After my first Tamil film, I did a Malayalam film. And while I was doing it, I did keep getting several offers from Tamil. However, I did not find them to be interesting. But when Ravi sir narrated this script to me, I knew it would work big time.”
Her faith in the script, she says, was strengthened when she got to know that Vimal too was impressed by it.
Dipa recollects, “I got a double confirmation on my decision to do this film when the same script was narrated to Vimal and he readily took it up. In fact, Vimal then had his hands full and no dates to allot. However, he was so particular about doing this movie that he managed to salvage dates and allot it to this film. That was when I understood how much he liked this script and how intent he was on doing this film.”
Going by what she says, the film’s script, it seems, has earned the trust of two gifted individuals in the industry. But what is the basic plot based on?
Informs Dipa, “The film is a love story that focuses on the girl. I play a girl whose family owns tea estates in Ooty. She is from a traditional family but is strong-willed. What’s more, she is doing her doctorate. The story is about her and what happens when she falls in love. The problems that crop up and how she handles them form the rest of the story. When I heard the script and looked at my character, ‘I thought this is how girls need to be.’”
It’s no secret that the actress is good with languages and can speak several of them. In fact, her Tamil has improved to such an extent that she was mistaken for a Tamilian by her co-star, Vimal. Dipa says with a smile, “Initially, once when I was actually interacting with my translator in Tamil, Vimal saw me and thought that I was a Tamilian. He assumed that the translator was my mother.” On a more serious note, she discloses before signing off, “I will be dubbing for my character in my own voice in this film. I requested my director for permission to do that and he readily agreed.”