Nandini Reddy shares how 21-year-old Nithya Menen refused to do drinking scene in Ala Modalaindi: ‘No career, no standing but…’

Nandini said, “At one point they wanted me to write a scene where Nithya Menen gets drunk again. She said, ‘I am not going to do it. Do you think it is right?’ I said, ‘No but, I just want to finish this film.’ She was a kid. She was 21 and was just out of college. No films. No standing. She said, ‘Go tell them Nithya Menen will not do.’ She told it with just an attitude. A girl was telling me this, and then I realized that I needed to stand up for myself. So, I told the producer that I won’t do it. I told him, ‘I am not going to shoot it. If you want, you shoot it.'”

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She added, “That was the first time I stood up for myself. And that’s because of Nithya Menen.”

Ala Modalaindi went on to become a hit, which propelled the careers of Nithya, Nandini, and Nani in the Telugu film industry. Nandini and Nithya again teamed up for the film Jabardasth. Nithya then acted in many Telugu films like Ishq, Okkadine, and more such hit films.

Currently, Nithya Menen is part of Jayam Ravi’s Kadhalikka Neramillai, directed by Krithika Udhayanidhi and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin.

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