Nanditha Swetha who’s making her debut with Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada became a household name in Chennai with Atha Katti (2012). The audience connects with her instantly because of her innate charm. Her simplicity has become her strength as well. The actor made her debut in Kannada films even while she was in school which she terms as an ‘unexpected offer’. She recollects her childhood days, “I was a very active child and was interested in dance and debate. Around that time directors noticed me and approached us with an offer. Coming from an orthodox family, my parents were not keen in the beginning, they needed lot of convincing. I thought I would get back to my studies but Nanda Loves Nanditha became a blockbuster hit in Kannada. People kept asking what my next film was.” It is only then that she realised that she likes acting and was missing it. She says, “Not everyone gets to be a movie actor. I started getting Tamil films and heard many scripts but after Atha Katthi I didn’t turn back at all. I have to learn a lot of things; I took training from a person from a theatre background and also used the gap to do commercials and learnt dance and acting. I never wasted any time. After that the right project, right production, right character everything fell in place.”
Nanditha feels the 13 films in Tamil that she worked has groomed her as a person and actor. “The experience in the industry has made me a wiser person. Apart from performing in movies I’ve learnt to communicate and deal with people. That has made me very stable now.”
She adds, “Vi Anand’s film Ekkadiki pothavu chinnavada is the best launch I had got in Telugu..a lot of searching was on for this role. When I was finalised, lot of people apparently called the director and said it was a good selection. It will be a talk of the town character.”
