Nithya Menon doing 2 biopics; details revealed

Chennai, Nov 14: Nithya Menon has been in news in the recent times especially after she has been seen as Savithri in the latest still of NTR biopic. She has also bagged a Bollywood project Mission Mangal and will be sharing screen space with more than five big actors from the industry. While Akshay Kumar is playing the lead role, the film also has Sonakshi Sinha, Tapsee Pannu, Vidya Balan and others are also part of this move.

Nithya has given an interview to a recent news agency where she has revealed many things about her upcoming projects including Mission Mangal, NTR and even The Iron Lady.

On one fine day, director Jagan Shakti and producer R Balki had called her, saying that they would love Nithya to play a scientist in a really interesting film that they are doing. They also told her that Akshay Kumar was keen on her being a part of the film.



"In the past also, I was offered plenty of Hindi films. I just wanted to be as choosy with Hindi as I was with films in other languages that I have done. I wanted it (debut Hindi film) to be a really nice film. I found this a nice character. I don t think we have done a film like this... you know, a space film," said Nithya.

Nithya will start shooting for this film from the end of this month and she will be sharing screen space with Vidya and will also be seen together in a biopic on the legendary actor-politician NT Rama Rao. "I met her (Vidya) at the shoot of NTR s biopic. We have one scene together. She said she had watched my films OK Kanmani and Bangalore Days ," said Nithya.

Nithya will star in another biopic, playing late politician Jayalalitha in The Iron Lady. "The film on Jayalalitha is very heavy. I was very impressed when the film s director Priyadarshini came with the film to me. She was so focussed.

I told her that if we are doing a biopic, we should ensure complete justice to the character. She was going in the right direction and was extremely confident. I am really looking forward to do that film. That will be interesting to explore as an artiste," she said.