Nayantara says, 'Women-oriented films huge responsibility'

Nayantara, who is gearing up for the release of southern remake of hit Hindi movie ‘Kahaani‘, says she usually doesn’t like women-centric movies because they are too much of a responsibility for an artist.

Coming out Thursday, the remake has been titled ‘Anamika‘ in Telugu and ‘Nee Enge En Anbe’ in Tamil.

“I usually don’t like to do women-centric films because it’s too much of a responsibility on your shoulders. Everything has to be correct but when I saw ‘Kahaani’ I thought this is one film, which I would want to do in south,” Nayantara said in an audio statement.

She says ‘Anamika’ is not a frame-to-frame copy of ‘Kahaani’.

“If Kolkata was a character in ‘Kahaani’, old Hyderabad becomes an important character in the remake. A lot of changes have been done in the south adaptation. It will not be like a cut, copy and paste of the original,” she said.

Nayantara has stepped into Vidya Balan‘s shoes in ‘Anamika’, which has been directed by Sekhar Kammula. But unlike the original, she does not feature Nayantara as a pregnant woman in the remake.

Although Nayantara wanted to play the pregnant character, she says her director thought otherwise.

“It was completely Sekhar sir’s call. From the very beginning, he didn’t want the pregnancy part in the story and I was very scared about this because that was the main plot about the film. He wanted to make it even more challenging without the pregnancy part,” she added. Read More On MSN

Nayantara says, 'Women-oriented films huge responsibility'