Aishwarya Lekshmi: ‘I wanted the audience to feel Ammu’s ache’

Actor Aishwarya Lekshmi is perhaps born and introduced up in Kerala, but it surely has by no means stopped her from exploring different movie industries. Aishwarya’s Telugu movie Ammu launched in the present day on Amazon Prime Video. Prior to this, the actor was seen in Mani Ratnam’s Tamil magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan 1 as Poonguzhali. Aishwarya says that after her Telugu debut with Godse earlier this yr, she has turn out to be assured with the Telugu language.

Aishwarya’s Ammu is a revenge thriller a few lady who’s a sufferer of home abuse. Ammu is her second Telugu movie and he or she says {that a} good script, in any language, makes her really feel grasping as an artiste.

In an interview with indianexpress.com, Aishwarya Lekshmi stated, “As an actor, may be first two years of my career, I was worried if I would be able to pull it off. But post Godse, I got the courage to do Telugu films. The language is not the thing here, the emotions are universal. The story which we are trying to tell is universal. Maybe there are some stories, which are rooted but the emotions are universal. I can express well, even if I am a Malayali or a Tamilian.”

Aishwarya, who has been a part of a number of Malayalam movies, added, “As far as I am concerned, I belong to Kerala but I don’t mind anything out of the ordinary. I don’t feel out of place when I work in Hyderabad or Chennai. I feel very much at home. I feel as comfortable as I feel when I am working in Malayalam. Maybe initially, I felt that I would have difficulty learning the language, now it is not there. I just get extremely greedy when I hear a good script in any language. I just don’t think language should be a barrier for any actor.”

Directed by Charukesh Sekar, Ammu has some hard-hitting scenes depicting home abuse. The movie has scenes the place Ammu (Aishwarya Lekshmi) will get slapped by her husband (performed by Naveen Chandra) a number of occasions. Aishwarya got here on board after she learn the script, which was written in an impactful method.

“The words used in the script was painful enough for me to know what the woman was going through. Then I spoke to our director Charu, who is also our dialogue writer, and he was instrumental in helping me get the correct beat and tonality of the character. I didn’t want to make it look like acting or a performance because I wanted the audience to feel the pain she was going through. So, I wanted it to be as real as possible,” stated the actor.

For an artiste, to play such a personality will be taxing. To reside the lifetime of Ammu on units after which to really feel her rage, did have some impact on Aishwarya Lekshmi.

“It was very challenging, especially the domestic abuse scenes. It was mentally very challenging especially when she actually breaks down for the first time. But I loved the revenge part. I was very happy that finally she is giving it back because I was holding so much of it inside. The drama of it was very exciting,” stated Aishwarya.

Aishwarya Lekshmi reveals that Ammu was shot in the identical order because the story, a lot to her reduction.

“I was very happy that we were shooting linearly. If at all we were shooting in reverse order, I am sure I would have been affected for the longest time. It left an impact while I was shooting or may be a week after that. I am usually an actor who leaves my characters on sets and goes back,” shared the actor. She additional defined, “I am not a method actor. It usually never affects me. There was this one scene where I couldn’t stop crying after the performance. Like, I was crying in the scene and even after cut, I couldn’t stop. It was very very difficult for me,” she stated.

Next up for Aishwarya Lekshmi is Malayalam movies Christopher and King of Kotha. She may even be seen within the second a part of Ponniyin Selvan, which is predicted to launch in 2023.