Nadiya has a major position in Anjali’s Wonder Women, about six pregnant ladies and their journey collectively, which is releasing on SonyLIV on November 18
Nadiya has a major position in Anjali’s Wonder Women, about six pregnant ladies and their journey collectively, which is releasing on SonyLIV on November 18
Talking to Nadiya Moidu is like catching up with an outdated pal. That infectious snigger, the joie de vivre, all of it comes by means of in a phone dialog with the actor as she talks about her position in Anjali Menon’s film Wonder Women.
Nadiya performs Nandita, who runs a pre-natal centre the place six pregnant ladies from totally different walks of life and areas come to arrange for motherhood. Wonder Women is about how these ladies bond as they undergo the milestones and the journey collectively. It is about every empowering the opposite.
Nadiya explains that it’s a journey {that a} household travels with the would-be mom. “It is not only a woman’s issue. The entire family is involved in supporting the mother and the new life that is coming into being. It is a beautiful journey that one goes through over the nine months, a journey that slowly grows on you.”
Nadiya Moidu (left) with Archana Padmini, Nithya Menen and Sayonara Philp in Wonder Women
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The veteran actor believes that there’s a particular bonding that occurs inside a gaggle of girls. She feels that “the bond, the energy and the madness that women share is something else.” Although the opposite actors had been youthful than her, Nadiya skilled the identical bonding on the units.
“It was a learning experience to be with a bunch of sharp, intelligent and witty women. They are not just extremely talented actors, they are far more knowledgeable about the craft, far more clued-in about their work as well. Today’s generation is so proactive about the work they do. The conversations we had were amazing. It is a different school. I am still old school. I took away a lot from the film,” says Nadiya, who made her debut in cinema in Fazil’s evergreen film Nokketha Dhoorathu Kannum Nattu in 1984.
Working with Anjali Menon for the primary time in a film, Nadiya admits she was over the moon when the filmmaker supplied her the position, as she was a writer-director Nadiya was eager on working with.
Nadiya Moidu as Nandita in Anjali Menon’s Wonder Women
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“Nandita is such a lovely character. When you get to my age, you get pigeon holed so easily with the kind of characters we normally play. Streaming platforms are where women can be seen as heroes, a place where age is not a barrier,” explains Nadia.
Pointing out how the director had superbly woven the characters into this movie, she provides that every one the actors had been comfortable with Anjali. “Even those acting for the first time [Sayanora Philip] felt at home. I was probably the only who was not associated with Anjali as much as the others.”
Nadiya avers that whereas she is glad working with male administrators, working with a girl director, any girl director for that matter, creates a particular consolation zone. “I had many firsts during the shooting of Wonder Women. I am used to somebody giving me the script, telling me to find the lines and then, perhaps, telling me how to modulate it while saying the dialogues. Then I go and speak the lines.”
However, she received a shock when Anjali defined the gist of the scenario and informed Nadiya to ship the strains she needed to say. Since Nadiya had a number of dialogues, she remembers being perturbed when she was informed to adlib.
“However, Anjali was happy that I was ready to accept whatever was thrown at me. She does her job differently. She challenged me differently, made me think differently. She also has a very different way of explaining things,” elaborates Nadiya.
Nadiya feels that whereas Anjali explains a scene, she brings in a number of layers of the characters, about her previous, what formed her, the place she comes from…
“She brings in that character in you. It is not like somebody explaining that this scene will happen now, followed by the next and so on. She has a different narrative.”
As a mom herself, did she draw upon her personal experiences to play the position? Nadiya says there have been plenty of elements that took her again 25 years in the past when she had her first baby. “We lived abroad and I had attended Lamaze (a kind of breathing exercises for pregnant women) classes with my husband.”
Recalling the chit- chat with different would-be mums in her class, she provides, “We talked about what each was going through while the husbands talked about what was happening in their lives, the men feeling uncomfortable with the whole situation.”
Nadiya will quickly be seen in one other Malayalam movie, an anthology based mostly on litterateur MT Vasudevan Nair’s tales. “It is an OTT film and I have worked with Fahadh Faasil in it. While working with Fazil uncle (director Fazil) in Poove Poochooda Vaa (1985), I remember seeing his son Fahadh as a little boy, running around the set. It was fun to shoot with Fahadh and work with him.”
Source: www.thehindu.com