Anjana Menon Playing a Tough Cop
It will be hard for many to believe that the girl who played the demure and affable widow neighbour and the love interest of Biju Menon in Sugeeth’s 3 Dots has all transformed into a tough cop. Meet Anjana Menon, who will be seen as DCP Bhuvaneshwari in the upcoming multilingual High Alert helmed by Chandra Mahesh.
“I will be playing an encounter specialist. She is a bold, powerful and a dedicated police officer. She doesn’t believe in court trials or taking the long route to justice and directly takes stringent measures,” says Anjana.
Though Bhuvaneshwari is a lady with her own views and opinions, she has an other side too.
“Bhuvaneshwari has various shades to her. In the uniform she is a angry bold woman but kindness and sensuality are the other attributes in her character that can be seen in various instances. She is passionate about her job,” says Anjana who debuted in the 2011 Rajesh Pillai movie Traffic.
Quiz about playing the action-oriented role, she says, “I was in Malaysia when I got the call from Chandra Mahesh. I had only couple of weeks before the shoot began. So my gym instructor gave some basic training in martial arts and rest of the training was done on the sets.” Anjana has couple of chases, stunts and other edge-of-the-seat action sequences. “In one of the stunt sequence I had to fight with a 6-ft tall don, played by Vinod Kumar,” says Anjana.
Chandra Mahesh who is a popular Telugu director, is famous for films like Preyasi Rave, Hanumanthu, Ayodhya Ramaiah’and Okkade.
Ask Anjana how he spotted her, she says, “I had no clue who Chandra Mahesh was. He saw a a sequence of an yet-to-release Tamil flick on the editing desk, where I am riding a bullet and it was a chase sequence. So he fixed me as DCP Bhuvaneshwari.”
High Alert, made in all the four South Indian languages, namely Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam, has already been released in Kannada. The movie will be hitting the screens in Kerala on August 14.
“The film has already got in the Indian Book of Records and Celebrity Book of World Records for being the movie to be made in four languages at the same time. Processing is going on for the Guinness Book of World Records,” says the actress.
Besides the lead actors, other casts change according to the region. Along with director Bhagyaraj and Suman, in the Malayalam edition Kalabhavan Shajon, Dharmajan Bolgatty and Anoop Chandran will be seen in pivotal roles. Meanwhile in M-Town, Anjana will be donning the role of a psychiatrist in Ullas Unnikrishnan’s Zacharia Pothen Jeevichirippundu.
“The movie will be a romantic psychological thriller. Lal, Poonam Bajwa, Babu Antony, Neeraj Madhav and Sunil Sugatha are also part of the cast. I will be playing a Muslim girl Shabnam, opposite Rahul Madhav. She is a psychiatrist who rides a bullet and is a headstrong self made person,” says Anjana.