At 9 pm on a sultry evening, the cast and crew of Nila Choru is ready to shoot. Director Sundararajan is in front of the camera and enacts the scene that���s to be shot. Child artist Sara, of Deiva Thiirumagal fame,watches keenly and gets the sequence right in just two takes. She���s a few films old and has done many advertisements, which is perhaps why studios and sets aren���t alien to her.
���I just follow what director uncle tells me,��� says the eight-yearold. Currently, she���s busy with two films in Tamil ���
Nila Choru and
Vizhithiru. The latter ��� about a sequence of events that takes place in night ��� required her to shoot in the streets of Chennai at night.
���Thank god there���s no school now,��� she smiles, ���I catch up on my sleep in the afternoons mostly so that I can shoot at night. But I keep telling my papa, ���take me to London, so that I can get used to timing and then we���ll come back and shoot at night in Chennai for Vizhithiru.���
Her father, Raj Arjun, an actor himself, gives her company on the set. So,what���s next for Sara? ���She���ll be the lead character in director Vijay���s next film,��� he reveals, ���Titled
Saivam, it will be produced and directed by him. It���s a village-centric subject and he (Vijay) wants to shoot it as soon as possible.���
Ask Sara what she wants to become when she grows up, and she says, ���I want to become a film all-rounder. I want do everything except being a producer or a cameraman.��� Prod her on why she wouldn���t want to be either of them, and she says, ���Those two people are always working. Changing lens, handling different cameras and coordinating with artists ��� those are very tough.���