When the shapely Gayathri Jayaram's, a top five finisher in the Miss India pageant, first film in Tamil Manathai Thirudivittai did not do well at the box office, everybody knew she would test the waters elsewhere. It was only a question of whether it was Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada or, if she was lucky, Hindi. As it happens, it is in Telugu. Gayathri hs been cast as the heroine in the Telugu re-make of the Malayalam hit Ee Parakkum Thalika. She is paired opposite the struggling Srikanth. She was hosting a popular TV show before she entered the film industry. "I think that was the stepping stone. It gave me the confidence to shape up before the camera," Gayathri points out. But she did not come straight to films after TV. "I made it to the top five in the Miss India contest. Then again, the exposure there helped me a lot". One does not know what exposure Gayathri meant, but plenty of it was seen in her first Tamil film. Cast opposite Prabhu Deva, Gayathri did a glamour doll role in that film. "I think you said the right word glamour. Glamour is not obscenity. What is wrong if you wear fetching clothes," she seethes.
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