Nimisha Sajayan does not like to see her real, bubbly self on screen.
In all her films till date, the 22-year-old has essayed characters who are a world away from her real self, and beyond her age. They are women undergoing immense emotional trauma, be it Sreeja in Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum , whose last hope for survival is in a necklace which has been stolen, or the young woman in Eeda , who along with her lover is caught amid the political violence in Kannur or the inexperienced advocate fighting for an innocent client in Oru Kuprasidha Payyan .
“I got the first role through audition. It seems all the other offers have come to be based on that performance. No one has offered me those ‘fun’ roles, although people in the industry knows me as a bubbly character. “But if I do those roles, it would be like the real me, which I don’t want to happen,” she says.
Imbibing mannerisms
For the role of advocate in Oru Kuprasidha Payyan , one of the films which fetched her the award, she spent some time in courtrooms to imbibe the mannerisms and delivery styles. In Chola , she plays a school girl. “I had heard that my name figured in the final list, but the win was unexpected,” she says.
