I was dropped from the film because Mammooka said I wouldn’t fit for the role: Baby Anju
Baby Anju is a well-known actress to Malayalis. Anju enters the cinema as a child actor. That’s how baby Anju was named.
Later she became the heroine in many films. Anju also received the State Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Rugmini directed by KP Kumaran in 1989. Anju has acted in many films as the heroine of Mammootty and Mohanlal.
Anju has said that Mammootty was the reason why she was kept out of the 1991 film Azhakan, which starred Mammootty, Madhu and Bhanupriya. Anju told Behindwoods Ice that Kaurava made her his heroine as an atonement for that.
“Mammooka first saw me in Nilgiri movie. He was shocked when he saw it. Because I had played his daughter before that. When he saw you, he asked when you grew up.
Mammooka told me that I was the one who said I didn’t want you in the movie Azhagaan. I was supposed to play the role of Madhubala in the movie Azhagaan.
It was Mammootty who told them that she was a small girl and that she was cast as my mole, so she would not be suited for the role. That’s how Madhubala replaces me in that role.
He said he rejected me because he thought I was still a child. He apologized to me for that and made me the female lead in the next film Kauravar. Then the movie agreement was signed. “After the Nilgiris shoot, we went straight to the Thiruvananthapuram location of Kauravas,” said Baby Anju.
Joshi’s 1992 Kauravar directed. The film was written by Lohitadas. Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan also acted in this film. Also Thilakan, Murali, Babu Antony and Bheeman Raghu have played other important roles.
content highlight: Actress Baby Anju says that the reason why she was dropped from the film was because Mammootty said that she would not fit for the role