Thursday, June 18, 2009

JAYANI SARALA

WATER GIRL


When this little girl from Galle,Sri lanka,landed a leading role in Deepa Mehta’s Water,little did she know that she’d soon be headed for the Oscars.Jayanthi Sarala, who plays the role of child widow Chuiya,was hand-packed by filmmaker Mehta,who calls her find “a natural actor”.Surprisingly,the student of Galle Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya dosen’t speak either Hindi or English and worked diligently with a translator on the sets.Now she is set to create history by alking the red carpet at the forthcoming Academy Awards and becoming the first Sri Lankan to make it to Hollywood.A surprise package indeed.

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