Supporting those who criticized Aniamma, Mala Parvathy wrote on social media: ‘Aniamma is overacting. It’s disgusting. Mala Parvati talks about false truths.
Aren’t negative comments the first thing a negative mom gets?
‘Masterpiece’ will release on October 25 on Hotstar. There was great concern about how the audience would take to the series and the characters. For the first three days, only negative comments were heard.
I heard comments like ‘Annyamma is disgusting’ and ‘I stopped watching the series by the second episode’. But later, calls started coming in to tell about the mother-in-law they knew. Positive comments started pouring in. Actress Mia was the first person who called me after seeing the series from the film industry.
Did it take a lot of preparation to become a mother who supports the patriarchy and says that only her point of view is correct?
Aren’t there women around us who are telling the patriarchy to the next generation? Aniamma is such a housewife. ‘Not Tali’? ‘Not children’? ‘Can you call your husband by his name’? Starting from that, Aniamma repeatedly asks all the commands given to women by the patriarchal society.
While acting in dramas, he has done comedy roles. So, I had less fear of falling for the joke. But the concern was thinking about how Aniamma would be portrayed and how the audience would accept it.
Unlike all the characters I have done so far, Aniamma is the character that challenged me as an actress and gave me so much scope for acting.
Director N. Sreejith said that Aniyamma should be presented clearly. S. Praveen is the screenwriter. Different generations and different perspectives are the main attraction of the masterpiece. Which character is Mala?
What did Parvati feel closer to?
Balancing Binoy, who struggles to choose the right between the old and the new, Ranji Panicker’s Chandichayan, who lives in fear of his wife and does not say anything, Father Xavier, who embraces religion and rejects the freedom and reason of women, questions everything.
Riya, who lives her life as she likes, Rosleen, who has desires but could not express them, and Viji Sir, who shows a Malayalee’s sneaky look, etc., are characters in the masterpiece that need re-reading.
