Roopa wears her sleeve well

HYDERABAD: At first glance, she looks like any other collegian, simbly! There you've arrived...er...she.

A Mallu girl, Roopa after the success of `Preminchu', which recently crossed the 100-day mark, can't stop smiling. For she has every reason to glow, up close!

"I was absolutely thrilled when Rama Naidu Sir offered me the role and am grateful that I got the breakthrough from a producer who has Guinness record for making the maximum number of films", the pretty Roopa says.

"In fact, my entry into the celluloid world was purely an accident. I was watching a shooting of a movie near her house when writer A.K. Saajan spotted me. And the rest...you know the obvious (can't recall history!)," she muses.

Roopa, a commerce graduate from Maithreyi College in New Delhi, considers herself lucky to have got a break in Malayalam film industry. That too opposite the superstar Mammooty in `Oral Mathram'. She followed it up with Vineet in `Takshasheela' and with Manoj K. Jayan in `Ilamana Tamburan'.

And as her portfolio (stars looking up!) started doing the rounds, our own movie mogul D. Rama Naidu gave her an opening in `Preminchu' and the rest fell in line. Currently, she's keeping her fingers crossed on two of her forthcoming releases.

`Snehitudu' with Sivaji as hero and `Inspector Vikram' opposite Suman are slated for release next month. "I want to remain in the industry as long as possible and be known as a good actress", she avows.

She does have an ambition though. Other than the filmi chakkar. Roopa wants to have a successful business of her own. Without help from any quarter, not even her dad, who is a successful businessman himself. "I simply cannot accept a boss", she swears.

"Actually, I spend a lot of time before the idiot box". Not only that, she gorges on horror flicks too. Brave gal, huh?! As regards music, she has a liking for old Hindi numbers. One of her fav' being `Zindagi ka safar...' from the Rajesh Khanna-starrer `Anand'.

Utter the word `food' and Roopa jumps with joy. "I love Chinese - be it rice or noodles," she chuckles. Talk of marriage and the damsel blushes before retorting, "I guess I am too immature to think about love or marriage now."

Sure, Roopa wears her sleeve well, very well at that!

By Suresh Krishnamoorthy

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