‘Malgudi Days Was an Emotionally Draining Experience’, says Anoop Menon

So far, Anoop Menon has portrayed sober and subdued characters on the big screen. It is for the first time that the Malayalam actor will be playing a character that will not thrive on dialogues but emotional expressions, in his upcoming film Malgudi Days. The actor admits that the intense emotional drama was quite a challenge for him.

Anoop Menon told TOI, “Except for Thirakkatha maybe, I have always been acting as the philosopher- advisor in most of my films, with no emotions at their core. It was cakewalk for me as I am like that in real. But Malgudi Days was an emotionally draining experience as everything about it is intense. I had to go through severe mental and physical challenges to portray Stephan Solomon, my character in it”.

Talking of the debut directorial of 3 brothers Vinod, Visakh, and Vivek, the actor said, “It is perhaps the first in the history of cinema that three brothers are directing a film. They are new people and initially I had no inkling to say yes to the project. But I loved the sincerity with which they approach their craft and agreed to be part of the movie. Also, I know how difficult it is for youngsters to get an entry in cinema”.