After completing her graduation in fashion designing and even dabbling in beauty pageants and TV commercials, Kannada actress Ruksar Mir who will make her Telugu debut with Showtime, got her first film offer with the Kannada film Katte. What more? Her performance was appreciated by everyone.
So impressed were people, that she was offered another film opposite Vinay Rajkumar, grandson of legendary actor Dr Rajkumar. “I learnt a lot from that film,” says Ruksar. After the film released last year, Telugu filmmakers were in awe of her work and approached her for Showtime.
“When S.S. Rajamouli sir’s cousin, S.S. Kanchi approached me for the Telugu film, I was in Delhi. After I returned to Bengaluru, they auditioned me and I got selected,” says Ruksar about her Telugu debut.
Interestingly, director S.S. Kanchi auditioned several girls for the same role before zeroing in on her. “Before the project, I was informed about the background of the director and the family. I know that Keeravani sir is a great music director and he was really impressed with my work,” shares Ruksar.
Describing the film as a thriller, she says, “I play a girl from today’s age. She is open in her thinking, and is mature and confident. The subject deals with the happenings in her life and her relationships. This is my first Telugu film and I am not aware of the language, but the team was very cooperative. They gave me the dialogues and scenes a week before the actual shoot. Kanchi sir briefed me about my role and told me that he wanted an intense performance from me,” she says. She adds that she just followed the director.
While doing this film, Ruksar also signed another Telugu film Akatayi. “It’s a new team, but the story is very good as it is a family entertainer,” says Ruksar. “The character I am playing in this film is in contrast to my Showtime character. I play an intense character in Showtime, while here I play a college-going student,” she says.
Ruksar confesses that she never imagined that she would land in Hyderabad for a film. “I was just 12 years old when I visited Hyderabad on a school trip and took a picture at RFC. I never imagined that one day, I would come to the same place for my film,” reveals the actress.
Ruksar likes to dance. “Unfortunately in all my films, I didn’t get a chance to dance. I hope in my next film, I will get the chance to dance a lot,” she says. “All the Telugu actors are good and I hope I get a chance to work with all of them,” she says, adding, “Every industry is producing good films and all of them are coming up with amazing stories. I am open to any industry. My aim is to do decent films.”
