Very rarely does one get to see different generations of a popular filmi family coming together onscreen, but this is what cinegoers will be treated to this week in
Idolle Ramayana
. The movie has three generations of veteran actress
Bhargavi Narayan's family sharing screen space ' her, her daughter
Sudha Belawadi and her granddaughter
Teju Prakash Belwadi
, who makes a debut with this film.
While Bhargavi plays Sudha's mother in the movie, Teju, who is Sudha's niece in real life (she is actor
Prakash Belawadi's daughter), will play Sudha's daughter in reel life. Speaking about working with her family, Sudha told us, '(Actor-director-producer)
Prakash Raj is a family friend. I didn't know that he was casting my mother and niece in the movie when he approached me to play his wife. I was very excited to work in the movie, but it was only later that he revealed that my mother will be playing my mother onscreen as well, and that my niece would be playing my daughter. I was very happy to hear that.'
So, what was it like working with family? 'The equation with my mother was the same as it is off-screen, so it was very natural. And it was a great feeling to work with my niece onscreen. The story is set in a middle-class house, so our dialogues were similar to the way we speak at home. It was like a slice from real life,' she adds.