"The script was rewritten and Bhairavi was alive again. "They were so happy to see me," says Sulakshana. To his delight, she told him she would play Bhairavi. As it transpired, Sulakshana found out about the sequel from the newspapers and contacted Balachander. So they decided to kill Bhairavi's character and keep her as a photograph in the serial. When I have KB on the sets to guide me, why should I worry? I also have my other guru Sivaji in mind."īalachander and his unit could not trace Sulakshana who disappeared from the film scene 12 years ago. Only two people inspire me, and they are K Balachander and Sivaji. "Had it been done by Sivaji, I would not have accepted the role. He is not worried about the fact that JKB was once successfully portrayed by Sivakumar. "I acted in a Balachander film 26 years ago!" Mahendran, who has acted in more than 300 films, said it is a kind of homecoming for him.
I am enjoying both the challenge and the role," he said. "It is a challenge for a comedy artiste like me to do a character role like JKB. Y G Mahendran, the well-known theatre and film personality, will play JKB. Sir felt if we are going to have a different JKB, let's have a different Sindhu too," says Subha. Suhasini was willing to play Sindhu but Balachander decided to have a different face - he felt if Suhasini played Sindhu, viewers would expect Sivakumar to play JKB. Unfortunately, Sivakumar was committed to a daily soap.
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They will not find Sindhu before the serial reaches around 50 episodes says project executive Subha Venkat.īalachander wanted the same artistes to reprise their roles on television. Bhairavi has given birth to a daughter, but they have no clue where Sindhu is. The serial ( Sahana - Sindhu Bhairavi 2) starts 19 years down the line. The film ended with Sindhu leaving her son with JKB and Bhairavi. Towards the end of his successful series, Anni, he went through his old files looking for an idea for his next serial and chanced on the rough sequel to Sindhu Bhairavi he had written 10 years ago.īalachander decided to bring the characters back to life on television.
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I didn't want to take such a big commercial risk,' he once said.īalachander has been producing television serials through Minbimbangal, the television offshoot of his movie production outfit Kavithalaya. 'I feared people would compare the two and say the sequel was not as good. Though Balachander has been toying with the idea of making a sequel to Sindhu Bhairavi for the last 10 years, something stopped him from doing so. Starring Sivakumar as JKB, Suhasini as the young Sindhu who was madly in love with him, and Sulak shana as the silently suffering wife Bhairavi, Sindhu Bhairavi was a huge success at the box-office and won many awards. This is the kind of impact created by the K Balachander film. Nineteen years have passed since Sindhu vanished from the lives of singer JKB and his wife but Tamil audiences still remember them from Sindhu Bhairavi.
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