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Sep 22, 2018 · A state-level basketball player and member of the National Cadet Corps (NCC), Dayana Erappa never imagined a career in showbiz, much less a role in a Mani Ratnam film. From a shy youngster, she is now a confident model-actor and one of three heroines in Ratnam's Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (CCV).
After her rendezvous with the legendary filmmaker, Dayana was thrilled to bits and didn’t even ask the director what her role would be. “I was like — this is Mani Sir’s film and I’ll do...
- Ikyatha Yerasala
Jun 20, 2018 · When Dayana Erappa got a call from Mani Ratnam’s production house (Madras Talkies) and was asked to mail her pictures, she thought it was a prank call. She didn’t believe until she searched on Facebook and realized that her caller indeed was associated with Madras Talkies.
Sep 25, 2018 · Dayana hadn't asked the filmmaker about her role when she got selected for the film. She attributes it to the belief that it is a Mani Ratnam project and that every actor in it would get equal screen space.
Sep 26, 2018 · The last time Mani Ratnam launched a beauty queen in his film as a leading lady was in 1997.
Sep 24, 2018 · “I thought I was being pranked! I really didn’t think it was real,” says Dayana Erappa, one of the leading ladies in Mani Ratnam’s multi-starrer Chekka Chivantha Vaanam.
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Jun 2, 2022 · Mani Ratnam had reportedly considered Aishwarya Rai Bachchan initially for the role of Meghna in the 1998 film Dil Se. The role eventually went to Manisha Koirala after Rai Bachchan was dropped for unknown reasons.
