We’ve got grown up with many Jayas round us, says Darshana Rajendran on ‘Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey’

Darshana Rajendran talks about enjoying the titular character in ‘Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey’ and her love for theatre

Darshana Rajendran talks about enjoying the titular character in ‘Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey’ and her love for theatre

“I needed to struggle in opposition to how Darshana would suppose when it got here to enjoying Jaya. I puzzled why Jaya was behaving in a sure approach or not saying one thing when choices had been made for her,” says Darshana Rajendran about enjoying the titular character within the Malayalam movie Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey, additionally starring actor-director Basil Joseph .

Describing Jaya as an bizarre lady who doesn’t have a lot say even in issues regarding her, Darshana says that the character is somebody everyone knows in our household or neighbourhood. “There may very well be a Jaya in us. We’ve got grown up with so many Jayas round us,” she says. The movie is about her journey from childhood. When she desires to check one thing, no one cares to ask her and he or she is distributed for one thing else. Later, she is pressured into an organized marriage. “Then, it’s about her marriage and the way it goes,” says Darshana.

Jaya is actually most not like Darshana, the actor agrees with amusing. Articulate and with a thoughts of her personal, Darshana says she is blessed to have been born in a household the place she had decisions aplenty, although she has seen folks in Jaya’s footwear. “I felt the choices Jaya was taking had been utterly alien to me. And, she doesn’t communicate a lot. That isn’t me in any respect. It was a problem to suppose like her and be her. However that’s my job. I needed to keep in mind the circumstances wherein Jaya grew up and her way of thinking to enact her,” she explains.

Jaya will get married to Rajesh, enacted by Basil. Darshana and Basil share a rapport as they’ve labored collectively earlier than. “The unconventional casting has helped the movie. Basil is that man brimming with issues to do. Spontaneity is his power. The trending ‘shoulder wriggle dance’ video, conceptualised by Basil was achieved in lower than 5 minutes. ”

Darshana Rajendran and Basil Joseph in a promotional nonetheless from Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey
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Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey, directed by Vipin Das, is about in Kollam, a spot that has not been explored a lot in movies regardless of its picturesque surroundings. Since Vipin is from Thiruvananthapuram and co-writer Nashid Mohamed Famy is from the Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram border, the dialect is distinctive. Darshana says Kollam is a spot that was not acquainted to her and so she loved working within the new locales.

Darshana has had three well-received releases in 2021-2022 with C U Quickly, Rani, her movie within the anthology Aanum Pennum, and Hridayam, a blockbuster entertainer. She admits that there was a time — earlier than 2020 — when it was troublesome to see her get pleasure from a section like this. Though the characters she did previous to C U Quickly didn’t have a lot display house, she made probably the most of it.

Darshana Rajendran 
| Picture Credit score: Bijith Dharmadam

Anu Sebastian in C U Quickly, Rani in Aanum Pennum and Darshana in Hridayam put her within the limelight. “However, even when these films, which got here to me earlier than C U Quickly, had been supplied to me immediately, I’d do it fortunately. I’m not seeking to play the lead position alone,” she asserts.

Darshana’s background in theatre has helped her to see all characters as equal. Darshana thinks there’s an ongoing preparation to breathe life into any character. “One has to work on the physique, voice and even thoughts to be able to do a personality,” she says.

As soon as she will get the script, she reads the script a number of instances. However on the set, Darshana places the prep away. “All my vitality is on being current and listening to what the director says and taking what my co-actor offers me. I’m extremely depending on that atmosphere. I don’t go along with a plan to say my traces in a specific approach or react in a sure approach.”

Darshana Rajendran
| Picture Credit score: Sivagnanavathy KSK

She says that every director has his/her personal approach of working. Within the case of C U Quickly, Mahesh was clear about what he wished from every actor. Vineeth Sreenivasan’s model was completely different: “He goes with what occurs organically and spontaneously. In the course of the making of Hridayam, generally, he wouldn’t inform me something; he wished to see how we might do it. He would put Pranav [Pranav Mohanlal] and me collectively, clarify the state of affairs, and simply observe us.” If Vineeth felt that the scene had labored, he would can the primary or second take itself. “I’m able to be versatile and match into any college or model that the director follows.”

It’s creatively satisfying to have the ability to observe a personality by way of for 30 days of capturing, to see her evolve by way of a number of occasions, says Darshana. “Earlier, it was troublesome for me to get in and discover a character in me in 4 days of capturing. That’s altering. For an actor, there’s nothing higher.”

Wanting again at Anu, she says she was not anxious or nervous in regards to the end result of the movie when Fahadh Faasil referred to as her. He advised her that it was an experimental movie that it would finish on a YouTube channel. “He wished to know if the mission excited me. I’m most enthusiastic about attempting new issues. It’s alright if it fails. I used to be enthused about how C U Quickly was made,” she says.

The movie got here at a time when the movie trade was at its lowest level on account of the pandemic-induced lockdowns. There was no work. “In a roundabout way, the movie held out hope, of maintaining issues transferring. It was solely somebody like Mahesh chettan [Mahesh Narayanan] who might have pulled it off regardless of a number of limitations.”

Darshana in a nonetheless from Rani, one of many tales within the anthology Aanum Pennum , an anthology of three segments
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Shifting on to theatre, Darshana factors out that exterior Kerala, most theatre actors don’t see the stage as a stepping stone to movies. Even after doing many movies, there are a number of actors who’re nonetheless into theatre. “They use the leverage from cinema or its recognition to vitalise theatre.” The actor realised this when she and a bunch of younger movie stars did a play, A Very Regular Household. “I keep in mind a time after we struggled to promote 200 tickets for our play. However for this, tickets had been bought out. I understood that it was the recognition of cinema that created curiosity for the play.”

Admitting that she misses being on stage, she hopes to proceed her ardour for theatre in no matter approach she will be able to. “By way of efficiency, initially, appearing in cinema was new. It was type of intimidating particularly the technicalities… you do the identical factor from 50 completely different angles. Now that I’ve turn out to be a bit acquainted [with the camera], I’ve realised that cinema isn’t that completely different from theatre. I’m having fun with the digicam, it’s tweaking what we do on stage for a special medium.”

By- The Hindu

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