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		Home > Interview With Sneha Interview With Sneha Prabhu | May 16, 2006 Click here for the Telugu version The serene beauty that in the form of Sneha that lightens up the silver screen is what the producers found in the quest for a replacement of the late Soundarya, that rare combination of beauty and histrionics. Though introduced to the Telugu audiences five years ago in 'Priyamaina Neeku' this miss has missed the opportunity of developing a wonderful form because of her wrong planning. But thank her stars the train of her life, though a bit late was not late a whole lifetime. She has scaled her desired heights though two years late. She now keeps her flag flying high as the top star in Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam. Barring Chiranjeevi she has teamed opposite top heroes – Nagarjuna and Venkatesh, while opposite Balakrishna she has two movies going one after another. Performing with remarkable ease opposite the leading men, she has been cast with up and coming heroes as well. This certainly reveals her somewhat special personality and image. The evolution of her personality and growth of her career are marked by her friendly relations with all and her excellent cooperation with directors, producers and co-actors, and she enjoys every minute of her personal and professional life as well. CineGoer.com interviewed her on her visit to Green Park Hotel in connection with the audio release of her movie, Dhoolpeta. The details: Miss Sneha, first let's congratulate you on your making good on the Telugu screen. This brought on her face a beaming smile. "I feel it really good; beginning the interview with your compliments; thank you," she said. How are you enjoying the success of 'Sree Ramadasu' and 'Evandoi Sreevaru'? 'Sree Ramadasu' has given the big break for me. I feel it the beginning of a new phase in my career. Happy that I've had the chance of figuring in a devotional movie directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and opposite Nagarjuna. Now that the movie is a hit, let me say this: I enjoyed every moment of it – even during the shooting. The role of Kamala is very satisfying personally and as an actor as well. As for 'Evandoi Sreevaru,' mine is the role of a self-possessed girl with a modern, traditional and sentimental in approach. Acting these two very different roles, just one after another, and both of them getting success really delight me. How do you take the compliment that you as a combination of real beauty and talent are suitable replacement for Soundarya? I certainly feel great. Being compared to a celebrity like Soundarya does make me happy. Significantly I am the first to get the Soundarya Memorial Award after its institution in Kannada. That gives me a thrilling feeling. Glam girls get glamorous roles and artistes with real acting talent get the roles that suit them. But you give the impression of being a blend of both. Do you find maintaining such an image a problem? True. I consider it a rare fortune to be a combination of both. If you are a bit careful in choosing your roles, you can accept either type of roles without hesitation. Not being confined to any one of the roles is how I am planning my career. I enjoy them both. The wrong notion among many is that glamorous roles means exposure and that, performance roles means gloomy roles. Any role has limits. Don't cross them, and beauty looks more beautiful and performance will be perfect. Heroines having such an image of mixed talent get heroine-oriented roles. What's your preference and attitude to such movies? Who rejects such roles? I would love to do the role of Kamalini Mukherjee in Anand. I am now working for 'Manasu Palike Mouna Ragam.' All associated with the film – the producer, the director, the hero, etc., are new. But the depth of my role has impressed me a lot. If I had dropped the opportunity because everyone is new I would have lost a good role. Once I accept a role I am not particular in matters of dates and remuneration. You act opposite big heroes as well as minor heroes. In the process you give the impression that you are big heroine teamed with small heroes, and as small heroine opposite big heroes. Doesn't it cause an imbalance in your career? why should it? We have the example of Soundarya who you compared me to. Didn't she act with major and minor heroes as well? Did it affect her image in any way? Wasn't I myself a new comer when I entered films? If great heroes had refused to act with a new heroine that I then was, I would have been nowhere, or would you have been interviewing me? The roles I do as a heroine and the way I behave on sets decide my career. I just don't believe that the persons I am teamed with affect my career. My pairing with top heroes widens my range and increases my salability image. My acting with budding heroes helps me to develop my individuality and self-reliance. That's how I view it. When we were about to put her the next question, a lean young boy going towards the lift smiled as if intending to talk to her. Smiling at him in return, Sneha asked him, "Are you starting? I'll join you after the interview." "OK, carry on," said the boy and smiling, left. We asked her who he was. Just as CineGoer.com was trying to remember who the boy might be, Sneha intervened, "He.. Don't you know? He is Dhanush, the hero of Dhoolpeta." CineGoer.com having seen only his photos earlier, wondered, "Is it Dhanush, Rajnikant the great's son-in-law? And one of the top heroes on the Tamil screen?" Why the surprise? He is Dhanush of course. Very difficult to believe that this boyish looking young man with such a thin frame could be any other than the ordinary boy loafing along bunds and dykes like a native character. Can't imagine him as the high profile Dhanush. That's why perhaps they say, 'appearances are deceptive.' True. But you'll be surprised to see how this unassuming young man performs tremendously on the screen. I had difficulty trying to be match for him in action, especially in Dhoolpeta. As a performer and fighter he is really incredible. In spite of his image and following he is very simple. That was her compliment to Dhanush. Resuming the interview after the brief interlude, CineGoer.com asked her, "Do you feel you have done your career best role in any movie yet?" "No," she answered, "I have done roles which have brought me recognition and applause as a heroine, but my career best role?.. No. Still waiting for such a role. However, I am just at the beginning of my career and I still have a long way to go. So, I feel I needn't be in a hurry to get such a role. You've acted with Nagarjuna and Venkatesh and now you are working with Balakrishna. What about your chances of acting opposite Chiranjeevi? Of course, I'm looking forward to working with him too. I do feel like acting once more with Nagarjuna and Venkatesh. And I am going to. Which of the language movies – Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil – are you concentrating on? Languages makes no difference to me. The role is what matters. Whatever the language offers me an interesting role, I will do it. In which language are you getting the roles you like? Telugu, for the present. The love and affection that Telugus have showered on me really delight me. Here the co-artistes, the technicians, producers, the media, all concerned are really very friendly. This is the most important reason for my enjoyment of my career. Is your remuneration affordable to producers? Comfortable at this stage I am at, money need not be the sole concern of an artiste. Good roles mean good success, and good success automatically mean good remuneration. Currency in my view is not career. Roles and success are career. You are in equal demand in Telugu and Tamil. Who pay you more? [Smiling} I don't give you the figure. But naturally Telugu producers pay more. Making of movies in Telugu is rich and lavish. What is your weight, please? [Surprised] Don't ask a person of their weight, age or salary. Don't you know? But we've a special reason for asking it. You have acted in Bapu's 'Radhagopalam'. Heroines in his movies are called Bapu bommalu. Usually the form and the charm of the girls he draws in his pictures and casts in his movies leave permanent impression on the minds of the audiences. But those who act in his movies in no time put on weight and turn Bapu bammas. Take Divyavani for example. Audiences now wonder if the fat Bapu bamma of the Telugu serials was the slim, charming Bapu bomma of Bapu's Pellipustakam. You give us your weight now, and you give your word that you will join the likes of Jayasudha, Sridevi and Rekha, by maintaining the same weight for another twenty years. That's because we want to assure your fans and Bapu bommas' fans that it will be so. That's why we asked your weight. [Laughing] Oh my! Such a long story behind the question! Still I don't tell you my weight, but promise you that I will maintain this weight and the same glamour for another twenty years. That's a challenging promise to my fans. We welcome it. Malayalam and Tamil film magazines carry a lot of gossip about stars and their personal lives. How do you respond to such gossip about you? I just ignore it. I don't respond at all. But Telugu magazines are not curious enough to peep into the personal lives of film stars. I am happy to be a star in such a refined atmosphere. Details of your present movies, please. Two movies with Balakrishna. And Dhoolpeta will be out on the 26th. Doing 'Manasu Palike Mouna Ragam' with new people. These are some movies I am committed to, on paper. Some more movies are in the negotiation stage. Soon you'll know about them. That marked the end of the interview with Sneha, the embodiment of serene beauty.