Manasi Subramaniam and TMK had referred her name to Reshma. September 2011 she was asked to meet Reshma Ghatala at Amethyst at 3:00 p.m. Incidentally her grandfather V P Raman, former Advocate General of Tamilnadu, was an excellent violinist who trained under the great master Papa Venkataramaiah. She learnt Carnatic music from her grandmother Kalpagam Raman who is a vocalist in her own right. She is blessed with a unique voice is an understatement. She honed her skills in Bharathanatyam (Guru Revathi Ramachandran) Jazz and Hiphop (Kokila Gautham) and dance director Geoffrey Warden of Hot Shoe Entertainment fame actually encouraged her to sing. It was a proud moment indeed for her parents Mohan and Padma. After 3 months of auditions and numerous workshops, it was a delightful show from the college students of Chennai performing a contemporary interpretation of Mahabharata where she played an eunuch, police inspector, Bhima and a politician and bagged the best actor prize. Prior to this, one of the landmark events in her young life was an inter-collegiate competition engineered by Airtel Theatricals and Evam in which 50 colleges from across Tamil Nadu participated. Her beacon of light has always been her dad, I think genetically too! Manorama вЂaachiвЂ™ has been her вЂlead kindly lightвЂ™ inspiring her debut performance in NEP and its Telugu version Yeto Vellipoyindhe Manasu. This time Vidyu was in charge of costumes and worked 24 /7 backstage and enjoyed every nanosecond of that experience.

In 2008 Vidyu acted in Rumpelstiltskin, a grand aural treat presented by the Landing stage where she made a deep impact as the evil leprechaun Rumpelstiltskin.ДЄdapted by Manasi Subramaniam and directed by Aruna Ganesh Ram in 2010 The Madras Players, in association with Landing Stage presented the delightful memories of Malgudi days, as вЂSwami and friendsвЂ™.

Her inspiration at that time was drawn from her cousin Gitanjali who was actively involved in Masquerade, a renowned English theater group. And knowing Mohan Ram, her dad, I am sure there wonвЂ™t be any glitches there.ДЄ student of Vidya Mandir and then later MOP Vaishnav Viscom, theater caught her fancy as early as 8 th grade. Mark my words, she will do that, if her dad guides her right and her career is channelized the way it should be. In my mind it is crystal clear we have found someone to fill a vacuum in our Thamizh cinema, a female comedian and character artiste. The 1 st glimpse I got of Vidyu was onscreen, as I was subtitling Gautam MenonвЂ™s вЂNeethaane en pon vasanthamвЂ™ and my joy knew no bounds. вЂњHow do you solve a problem like Vidyullekha? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Vidyuuu? A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!вЂќ

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