Both of them hardly spoke Malayalam those days - Vineeth having come from the Good Shepherd School in Ooty and a few years in Kerala, and Monisha from Bengaluru. Monisha won the National Award for best female actor that year. Vineeth and the late Monisha, 15 and 13 years old respectively, won a lot of affection from viewers. It put two teeny tiny people in a story of love and obligations. By then Vineeth was in his Chennai college.
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It was this Rishyasringan movie that Bharathan later made in 1988, as Vaishali. You can almost visualise the dejection on his younger face, looking younger than he did in that famed movie Nakhakshathangal that launched him as a hero in 1986. But there was some issue with the producer and the project got cancelled,” Vineeth says. There was an announcement in the newspaper about MT Vasudevan Nair, Bharathan and Ilayaraja (renowned Tamil musician) coming together for the film. “There was a photo shoot and Bharathettan told me to keep whatever moustache that sprouts - it was just beginning to grow. You can hear the excitement even today as he talks of that day in the distant past. The couple told Bharathan about the boy dancer when the director was planning a film on Rishyasringan, the young sanyasi whose meditation was broken by a seductive woman. He was then a Class 9 student training in dance with Kalamandalam Saraswathi, classical dancer and wife of renowned writer MT Vasudevan Nair. “Bharathettan was the first director to pick me out as an actor but that film did not happen,” Vineeth says in an interview to TNM. The cardboard boxes went away and Vineeth, the actor, was back.Īvarampoo - the Tamil remake of Thakara - changed everything for Vineeth. When he went though, Bharathan made him try the main part instead and a week later told him the role was his. The director was doing a Tamil remake of his critically acclaimed Malayalam film Thakara and asked Vineeth to come and try out the hero’s friend’s part. “Evdeyaarnu nee?”- Where were you? Vineeth was thrilled to hear Bharathan’s voice again. The next morning, he got a call and a familiar voice beamed in. They spoke of the old days and Vijayakumar went away with Vineeth’s phone number. From somewhere, he heard the voice of Vijayakumar, assistant to director Bharathan. Those were years when folks from the film industry travelled by trains flights were not that common. He was dropping off his mother at the Chennai Central Railway Station that day.