Showbiz Desk: Amala Paul, a well-known actress in the South Indian film industry, says that she gets ‘exhausted’ and had no energy left to work in films.
Amala Paul, who has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu films for the past 10 years, spoke about her short career in Telugu films in a recent interview.
Cadaver star explained her decision and said, “I didn’t want to quit film because my films were not doing fine or that I was not getting any offers. I got the biggest offers of my career at that point in time but I had to say no, because I simply needed a break. I was tired, exhausted, burned out. I started in the industry when I was 17 and now I’m 30. So, you know, it’s almost 13 years of no break at all. And then I went through my personal loss, losing my father, then the pandemic happened and suddenly I was at home and I didn’t have anything to do.
There were no flights to catch, meetings to attend or characters to work on. And that gave me a lot of time to connect with myself, process my emotions, my journey and my life. And I sort of realised that I was not very happy with the person that I was becoming. I felt like I was carrying too much baggage and that break phase were very cleansing for me. I call it my washing machine phase. I was literally going through so much detox and healing. I didn’t have the energy to do movies.”
Amala, who hails from Kerala, started her film career at the age of 17 with the Malayalam film Neelathamara, which got a good response in films. In 2010, she tasted her first success in the Tamil film Mynaa. Over the next decade, in 2019 she took a break and worked on over 32 films.
