actress asha sharath is going great guns with her riveting portrayal of various character roles a single mother with a devilmaycare attitude in buddy and a tough police officer in drishyam among others after starring alongside mohanlal in karmayodha and drishyam the actress is now gearing up to share screen space with not one but two superstars mammootty in varsham and kamal haasan in the tamil remake of drishyam in a freewheeling chat she talks about her movie with mammootty role as a journalist in angels sandalwood debut and more tell us about your role in varsham i play mammoottys wife in the movie my characters name is nandhini she is an archetypal housewife its an out and out family movie that talks about the relationship between a husband and wife the shoot will start in midaugustyou play a bold journalist in angels how challenging was that i essay the role of a news presenter named haritha menon a bold and outspoken woman the movie revolves around three characters a journalist a priest played by joy mathew and a police officer essayed by indrajith angels highlights the power of the media there is a message in the movie that none of us would have ever thought of as a woman and a mother of two daughters i was never aware of this i have pinned my hopes on this moviedid you do any homework to play the part i watch a lot of news and other related programmes on a daily basis that helped me get into the skin of the character you made your sandalwood debut with drishya the kannada remake of drishyam how was the experience playing roopa ips in drishya was tougher than geetha ips in drishyam i was thorough with the theme of the movie however i had to mould my body language my accent and my looks to play a kannadiga i struggled to learn the language for two days i knew only how to say give rice in kannada something that i learnt during my visits to the mookambika temple however after constant practice i was able to get the hang of the modified version of the original characterhow was it working with navya and prabhu like meena i was very comfortable working with navya as well in fact i was so glad that i had somebody to speak with in malayalam on the set its director p vasu is also a malayali i was a fan of prabhu sir during my growing up days especially after watching chinna thambi after years the dream to meet him came true though he plays my husband on screen he was treating me like a little sister off screen have people started recognising you in bangalore i used to visit bangalore quite often but people there never knew me as an actress until the release of drishya interestingly a few police officers at the immigration counter at the bangalore airport approached me and asked