And once that happens, her eyes begin to gleam. “Mango Dolly will be going to Mumbai soon to promote the film,” she chirps excitedly.
Yes, the actress refers to her character in her upcoming Bollywood film — Quick Gun Murugun — like an outsider. “That’s because everybody called me by that name on the sets,” she says, “So much so, that I’ve almost forgotten my own name.”Call it a role with a difference, and that’s exactly what she thinks, too. “It seriously is,” she states. “But would you believe me if I said that I didn’t understand the story the first time I heard it? Later, I asked the director (Shashank Ghosh) to give me the full script,” she recalls, “Soon, he was at my place with the entire Quick Gun... team.”
The director, full of creative ideas and wacky themes, was so excited at seeing his Mango Dolly in person that he goofed up a bit. “I couldn’t understand anything when he narrated the story,” she says, “It was all too quick to digest.” A few months later the director landed up at Rambha’s residence again and this time, he was better prepared. “He gave me the dialogues too and it had me in splits,” she says.
That was the case on the sets too, where she got to meet Rajendra Prasad and the rest of the cast. “I’ve never been spoon-fed like this before,” she says, “I was even assigned a man Friday. Quick Gun... is the kind of film that every actress ought to do in her career,” she says.
One of the many thrills that she got while shooting was wearing a blonde wig. “I’ve already worn one for a fleeting shot in Kadhalar Dhinam and I knew I’d look good in it,” she says, “But the team didn’t know that! They had 20 different types of wigs for me to choose from. I had one look at all of them and chose one. And it fit perfectly!”
Rambha has two characters in the film that are like chalk and cheese and the variety they offered was a major attraction.
