The Epic film Baahubali which is making waves all around has some touch from Malayalees too. We know there are some Malayalees who worked behind the camera for the film. They are Manu Jagat and Sabu Cyril. Manu Jagat was the art director of the film who had made all the sets for this epic film and surely it is one of the major highlights of the film and a reason for its success too. Sabu Cyril is the production designer of the film and he is the one who is behind all the preparations behind the camera in the pre-production and post production stage. He is the one who is the central pillar of all the researches made to complete the structure of the film.
But there is a Malayali touch can be seen in front of the camera as well. Actresses like Rohini, Ramya Krishnan had acted in a fair bit of Malayalam films but they were not actually Malayalees. Then from where the Malayali touch has come from..? The so called Malayali touch had come from Neeleeshwaram near Kalady. The child we saw playing the childhood of Baahubali- the new born baby character of Baahubali is played by Akshitha who is a Malayali child born to Valsan and Smitha couple living at Neeleshwaram near Kalady in Kerala. The new born baby whom we see in the character named Shivagami played by Ramya Krishnan is actually Akshitha and it was filmed when Akshitha has only 18 days of age.
Akshitha’s father Valsan was one of the production executives of the film Bahubali when it had shoot in Kerala and at that time Akshitha had acted in the film. But they never told about this to anybody as they were not very sure about in how many scenes in which their daughter might be seen. But only after the release of the film that they come to know that their daughter is in a number of scenes and also a key one.
The shoot of Akshitha’s part was completed using 5 days and it was quite a challenge for them to make their child of just 18 days of age to act in front of the camera or just put her in front of the movie camera.
