I had the space to be myself and be 100 percent authentic to who I am,” quips Akshara. “I hail from a household that not only encouraged us to choose our own paths and where we were expected to let our individuality shine. Nonetheless, she points out that at the end of the day, it is the story that takes the centre stage.
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Yes, the previous experience of working in a web series helped since the format for OTT is different,” Akshara says. “ Achcham Madam Naanam Payirppu was conceptualised as an OTT project. Akshara essayed the role of Priya in the five-part social media thriller Fingertip which released on streaming platform Zee 5 in 2019. However, this is not Akshara’s first time playing the lead role in an OTT project that revolves around the lives of its female characters in the lead. In most of the films I have signed, I have at least two to five percent in common with other characters but Pavithra in Achcham Madam Naanam Payirppu is pretty different from who I am as a person.”Īchcham Madam Naanam Payirppu is Amazon Prime Video’s latest addition to the long-list of women-centric OTT films and series released in the past year.
She also adds, “Playing Pavithra was a new challenge because the character is like the polar opposite of me. There are different ways to approach a film and we hope it reaches audiences the way we had hoped it would,” the Vivekam actor tells TNM. The film discusses sex, intimacy and female desire, but not necessarily from the serious light in which we often see these topics being discussed. It approaches a sensitive topic with innocence and humour. What prompted Akshara to pick the script? “It had an interesting premise but I particularly liked how it was handled in a very sensitive manner. It also depicts how Pavithra, played by Akshara Haasan, struggles to forge her path in a set up where she is expected to uphold societal ideals.
The scene from Achcham (fear), Madam (innocence), Naanam (coyness), Payirppu (chastity) which started streaming on Amazon Prime Video from Friday, March 25, gives a sneak peek into the world the film is set in where discussions about sex are slided under the carpet and ignored, even by a shopkeeper the character is not related to.