Interview with "Vanaja" director Rajnesh Domalpalli
Rajnesh Domalpalli speaks with Cinemondo host, Peter Scarlet about the incredible stories behind the making of "Vanaja." In particular, Rajnesh discusses the difficult but rewarding task of working with non professional actors. He also shares with us the process of having the then fourteen year old main actress (Mamatha Bhukya), a non professional actor with no previous dance experience, trained to perfect both the nuances of her character as well as the complex Kuchipudi dance sequences she so effortlessly performed in the film.
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When 14-year-old Vanaja is told by a fortune teller that she will be a great dancer, she presses her alcoholic father to get her a job with a rich local landowner who was once herself a dancer. But caste issues soon arise.