I managed the Mandya dialect with Sathish’s help: Rachita Ram

When debutant director Mahesh Kumar approached Rachita Ram to be a part of his film,

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, not only was she floored by his narration, but she was also taken in by the fact that he promised to bring the story to the screen as he had told her. “I fell in love with the character, Nandini, who is a bold and beautiful girl. Even though Sathish’s (Ninasam) character tries to woo her, she doesn’t easily fall for love. She is a complete daddy’s girl. All I wanted was for her to be onscreen as she was in the script. Mahesh and DOP Preetham have done that and more and I am very happy with the way I have been portrayed. I am glad that Mahesh considered me for this role,” she says.
What makes the character even more special to Rachita is that this is her first tryst as a

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hudugi and her first film with Sathish. “I was a big fan of Sathish and loved his songs, Thinbeda Kami from Lucia as well Opkondubitla Kanla from Love in Mandya. He is from the Mandya belt, so working on this film was a cakewalk for him. I think that he’s best suited to play a character from that region, besides Yash, of course. On the set, I often struggled with the Mandya dialect, but during the 25 days that we shot there, Sathish and Mahesh made sure that I got it right, so much so that I could dub for my portions in record time. I truly fell in love with the region. I also enjoyed working with Sunder Raj sir, who plays my father in the film. He used to tell everyone that he has adopted me as his daughter,” says Rachita.
The shoot apart, the actress adds that her most memorable moment came when she got to visit a sugarcane factory “I finally got to see how they make jaggery and sugar and trying fresh samples was simply awesome,” she signs off.