When we hear that yesteryear dream girl Radha’s daughter Karthika said that movies were not her career plans, it seems a little sarcastic.

The girl being a trained Kathika dancer movie offers had been knocking her doors since she finished class 10. In fact people wanted to see actress Radha’s daughter on screen, but her maiden venture happened much later in Telugu opposite Nag Chaithanya. Even if her debutant film was a forgetful one, Karthika has dared to choose a mediocre try with an art house film, ‘Makaramanju’.

The film deals with a segment of Ravivarma’s life, the timeline being when he was painting ‘Urvashi-Pururavasu’. Karthika is said to be playing two characters: the artist’s muse for the painting and Urvashi. As we had it before the film is directed by acclaimed art house director Lenin Rajendran, stars noted cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan in the lead. Karthika believes that this is the best start she could get for a career in Malayalam cinema, and is glad it has happened early in her career.