Suhasini Mani Ratnam's charm, simplicity and girl-next-door appeal made her the most popular actress of the 80s down south. After 28 years and 225 movies, of which 95 are in Telugu, Suhasini has chosen Bommarillu, a game show on TV as her comeback in Telugu land. And it's not the lack of good roles that forced her to choose TV over films. "You will not see me in fiction, especially if it's on TV. Television is still in its nascent stages, and the quality dished out makes one cringe. In films too, the choice is less. I can't play the predictable mother who helps the hero fall in love, that's not me," she says.
Suhasini knows her Telugu audience well and knows exactly what clicks with them. And that's why she believes her comeback show will be a bigger success than Amitabh Bachchan's KBC. "I may not be as tall as the Big B or as big a star as Shah Rukh, but my show, where winners will walk away with a dream house, will be bigger than Kaun Banega Crorepati."
Talking about her long absence from movies, Suhasini says, "The initiative should come from my side too. My priorities have changed. As much as I want to believe that I am not a typical wife/mother, that's what I am, that's what all Indian women are. our men haven't changed yet, so till that happens we will not be as ambitious as we should be. I remember telling Aishwarya Rai when she was 24, to achieve everything she can before marriage, because once you are hitched, life changes."
That said, Suhasini's life is far from just that of a homemaker. Partner and crisis manager of Madras Talkies, the production house she runs along with hubby Mani Ratnam, she is busy writing, directing, producing apart from playing a doting mother to 16-year-old son who already nurses political ambitions. "I have to stay away from politics because he doesn't want me to sabotage his career in future," she says, laughing.
Mani Ratnam recently lost his brother in an accident and Suhasini's ailing father is now under her care. These personal tragedies have kept her busy, but the cause of education is something she always has time for. "Recently, a girl whose education I sponsored got a job in Infosys." Returning to work in Hyderabad is like home coming, says the actress. "I came here as a horrible, bratty teenager. Working in the Telugu industry made me a better person. This place has some wonderful people like the late Shoban Babu, K. Vishwanath, Nageshwar Rao, Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna ? all of whom I love and respect," she says. But there's another reason why Hyderabad is special. "Indrani, my best friend is a golf pro, married and working in Hyderabad. Coming here means spending time with her, and I can't get enough of it."
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A guy was seated next to a 10-year-old girl on an airplane. Being bored, he turned to the girl and said, “Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The girl, who was reading a book, closed it slowly and said to the guy, “What would you like to talk about?”
Oh, I don’t know,” said the guy. “How about nuclear power?”
“OK,” she said. “That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow and a deer all eat the same stuff… grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?”
The guy thought about it and said, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”
To which the girl replied, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don’t know shit?” |
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The only way the water oozing out of the matka can turn to vapour is by absorbing heat from the liquid within the matka and the matka itself. Due to this process of continuous absorption of heat from the water inside the matka, in a few hours, this water becomes cool. 