On a roll

Nisha Agarwal on her debut Malayalam film Bhaiyya Bhaiyya

That it is de-rigueur for Malayali actresses to head to the Kannada, Telugu and Tamil film industries looking for greener pastures and better pay cheques is old news. The latest is that actresses from these industries are coming to the Malayalam industry looking for quality work and Telugu actor Nisha Agarwal is the latest on the bandwagon.

Nisha makes her Malayalam debut in Johnny Antony’s Bhaiyya Bhaiyya . She will essay the role of Kunchacko Boban’s love interest in the film.

She made her debut with the Telugu film

Yemmaindi Ee Vela and has acted in a few other Telugu films. Her debut film did good business at the box office.

She has also acted in the Tamil film

Ishtam . Of her Malayalam debut she says, “I have been getting Malayalam offers for a while but I had no free dates,” she says over phone from Madurai where a part of the film is being shot. She cannot reveal much about the film but she will say this much that “the movie is a laugh riot.”

The hotel management graduate had no plans to make acting her career, she says.

She, however, wants to continue her studies once she is done with acting. “I just wanted to do one film and then stop. But one film led to another and here I am,” she says.

Her sister, Kajal Agarwal, being an established actor “was a bit of an advantage. But after that I was on my own.”

Though it has been just a few days since she started work she is all praise for the entire crew especially Kunchacko who, she says, “is a delight to work with.”

The language, she avers, is different but again she has plenty of help from the crew.

Before she signs off she says that she finds “Kerala a gorgeous place. It is not for nothing that it is called God’s own country!”