Recently the rule for heroines was like this: Act in a few Malayalam movies when you are in school, and by the time you reach college you find that you get peanuts for salary and the best offer you can get is as the inconsequential heroine of Prithviraj or Dileep. Then you jump to Tamil movies and if possible to Telugu. Then once in a while, when Mahabali visits Kerala for Onam, tag along with him and act in a few movies so that your parents and friends don’t forget you. Gopika and Bhavana are examples of this.
