Shanker's and Anoop Menon's journey towards good films

TNN / Updated: Jan 10, 2017, 20:19 IST

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Both Urumi scribe Shanker Ramakrishnan and Anoop Menon had always dreamt of making it big in cinema as a scriptwriter and an actor respectively.

Shanker's and Anoop Menon's journey towards good films

Both Urumi scribe Shanker Ramakrishnan and Anoop Menon had always dreamt of making it big in cinema as a scriptwriter and an actor respectively.
Now that they have achieved what they set out for, interestingly, their parts have interchanged.
With Spirit and Poppins, Shanker has started his journey in front of the camera and incidentally, it comes at a time when his good friend of 22 years, Anoop, is loaded with five scripts.
Is it a role reversal for the two? "No," Shanker says. "As young people, we both wanted to be part of good cinema and are now utilizing the chances in whatever way it comes."

He says that both Anoop and he grew up on same ideas and always dreamt of making films. "We've not restricted ourselves to a particular bench division but have always wanted be active in all departments," he claims.
Even during their initial career, when Anoop branched out to television and Shanker assisted Ranjith in his movies, their ultimate goal always remained to make good cinema.
"We were never inert in the industry. Initially, we were educated about how to reach this goal and now we are contributing towards it," says the talented scribe, who is also working on a script for Mammootty-Prithviraj starrer Arivaal Chuttika Nakshatram and another project with Ranjith.

Talk to Anoop about it and he says that the role reversal had actually happened in his case. "Shankar was always the creative one from our school days while I was just a mere spectator. He was into theatre, mridangam, arts and always managed to be the topper in school too," the Cocktailactor says. However the actor points out that Shanker's forte is scriptwriting.

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