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Interview: Revathi (‘Bhoothakaalam’, flashbacks and WCC)
Posted on January 20, 2022
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Anu Warrier
January 20, 2022
It is rather interesting (to me) that I was just thinking of Revathi and Kaatathe Kilikkodu today. And then see that you have interviewed her. 🙂 I have always enjoyed her work, and it is nice to see her again. Not to mention that she’s one of the few women who have had the courage of her convictions to speak up.
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Radium
January 20, 2022
Kaatathe kilikoodu climax was pretty hard to watch where mohanlal is pushing a very petite revathi around like a rag doll . Each time she fell on the floor when mohanlal hit her, it looked like it really hurt.
Lal revathy love track in this movie is one of my favorites. It was so different from the love stories of those times. That one scene where she is all angry and is banging his hostel room door to physically attack him, he getting away in his bike and her chasing him all frustrated and angry was just perfectly written and acted.
Her character in the movie was feisty , jealous, possessive, and spunky ..very flawed and real. Can’t think of very many female characters written like that in malayalam, in the 80s.
Sad that she didn’t do many malayalam movies.
Priyan wanted her as kalyani for chitram. Would have loved to see her do that role.
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Radium
January 20, 2022
Forgot to add…she was crooked, cunning and manipulative too in the movie (lol).
The way she used gopi to get back at lal..pretty toxic.
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MANK
January 20, 2022
It was a very good interview. Revathi is a very intelligent and well read woman. I wouldn’t call myself a fan, but i have liked her performances in a lot of films. What she say is right: “we have all the laws to protect us, only their implementation is the problem.” It comes in the wake of Kerala women commission chief asking for creation of new laws to protect women in the film industry. What the hell for?. They cant even implement the laws they already have. The actress attack case is now 5 years old, and it’s only now that the cops are conducting raids and searching for the bigshot in the case.
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Madan
January 20, 2022
Wonderful interview, expected nothing less. It may be true that she is great at changing into different people but the real Revathi is a lot like the typical Revathi character of 80s Tamil movies. She herself summed it up well – vivacious and thoughtful at the same time.
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Enna koduka sir pera
January 20, 2022
I really enjoyed it. It was a pleasure listening to her and her views were very balanced, sensible and derived from an empathetic understanding of situations. And the way you did the interview was excellent as well, as usual 🙂 Thank you
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sai16vicky
January 21, 2022
Lovely lovely interview of one of my favorite actresses! If you had to find someone to match up to Mohanlal’s wisecracks those days, the only options you had were Revathi and Urvashi. ‘Kilukkam’ is one of her career-best performances and my favorite scene is not the ‘angamaly’ one, which has passed on to pure comic gold. It is one of these offhand scenes, where she fondly calls Jagathy musically as ‘Kuranga!’ and he, being the king of timing that he is, retorts in her tone ‘endhoo’.
It is absolutely impossible to imagine anyone else playing ‘Divya’ in ‘Mouna Raagam’. The scene where she flatly tells him “enkitta neraya kurai irukku” and goes on to describe her warts and all that, man, oh man! Incidentally, I have a juicy personal anecdote about this particular scene (probably a story for another day? ;))
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Jayram
January 21, 2022
Enjoyed the interview. Revathi is a pleasure to watch on screen and in interviews. Her filmography speaks for itself and I’m glad she’s still going strong.
Has anyone watched Kakkothikkavile Appooppan Thaadikal? I would add it to her career-best performances.
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krishikari
January 21, 2022
It is absolutely impossible to imagine anyone else playing ‘Divya’ in ‘Mouna Raagam’. The scene where she flatly tells him “enkitta neraya kurai irukku”
She was the best. My favourite line is when she tells him his touch is like a kumbili poochi. I just died.
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Anu Warrier
January 25, 2022
@Jayram, one of my favourites!
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Jayram
January 25, 2022
@Anu Warrier, great review! I just posted a comment!
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Anu Warrier
January 25, 2022
@Jayram – thanks. 🙂
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Anand Raghavan
February 1, 2022
Thoroughly enjoyed the interview BR. Her clarity of thought and the way she articulated was brilliant.
One of the best interviews in your portfolio
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