Vidya Balan has commenced doing her homework to master the mannerism of Indian-English writer Kamala Surayya. The actress plays the revolutionary poetess in a bilingual biopic, to be directed by national award-winning Malayalam director Kamal. Vidya took to Twitter to post a picture of herself immersed in reading the celebrated writer’s (also known by her pen name Madhavikutty) memoir, My Story. Have a look:
The Malayalam-English movie will also feature South-Indian actor Prithviraj, who has worked opposite Rani Mukerji in 2012-flick, Aiyyaa.
Surayya, who wrote in English as Kamala Das, had changed her name to Kamala Surayya after embracing Islam a few years before her death in 2009. Her work was considered bold and unconventional as it questioned the hypocrisies of the society. The most sensational, and arguably widely read of all of them, is her memoirs Ente Katha (My story), which was initially propagated as her real-life story, but she herself clarified later that it was just an “imaginary work.”
Her other major works are Childhood Memoirs, Summer in Calcutta, Alphabet of Lust, Descendants and collected poems.
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