The shoot of North 24 Kaatham is on near a temple. In the scene, Nedumudi Venu, Swati Reddy and Fahadh Faasil, mingle with a small girl. Painstaking silence is ripped apart by the devotional song that bursts out of the temple speakers. It appears to be business as usual for the cast until Swati breaks into the bhajan mode leaving director Anil Radhakrishnan Menon in splits. Effervescence is characteristic Swati. She gave much of it to the spunky Shoshanna she became in Amen. After her lyrical debut in Malayalam, Swati is firm-footedly playing Narayani in North 24 Kaatham. But, success and experience, she asserts, do not lighten her task. For the urban, Telugu girl to be working in a language...
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