Sona Nair to play a sex worker

Sona Nair, who has mostly portrayed conventional roles on the small and big screen, breaks away from the stereotype in Anavrutayaya Kapalika. She plays a high class sex worker in the telefim by her friend and short filmmaker, Preethi Panicker.
���What attracted me to this film was the treatment of the character Kapalika,��� says Sona. The original Kapalika is a play by the late N N Pillai.Later, it was adapted into a movie with the same name, where actress Sheela played the lead.
���In the original, Kapalika, who is cheated by a man, is forced to live the life of a prostitute. But in the telefilm, the character is treated with a lot of positivity. Instead of ending her life, Kapalika decides to live for the sake of other people, and gives away everything she earns as a prostitute to charity. There is also a twist at the end,��� says Sona.
The actress says that the character has been portrayed in a sensuous way sans any vulgarity. ���Kapalika is an extremely beautiful woman. Her character has been brought out in a subtle way without any skin show,��� says Sona and adds that although the theme is decades old, it is still relevant. ���Women are still being exploited, however strong they are,��� she says.
Director Preethi says the film, which was screened recently in Trivandrum, was well received by the audience. ���We will be screening it at festivals and are also thinking of a DVD release,��� she says. The 30-minute film has been scripted by Rajeev Gopalakrishnan.