A little girl with shy eyes and a charming smile, Harshhitha is excited
about turning eight this September. She is very cute, but then so are a
lot of other children. What makes her extraordinary? Well, for
starters, she is barely seven and has already acted in four Kannada
serials, with talks on to even cast her in a film. She has acted in
serials such as Manedevru, Atmakathe, Crime Files and Panchamaveda.
She began acting at five, and the very mention of acting lights up her
jet-black eyes. “Acting is a lot of fun,” she says. She got her break on
television in Manedevru that was telecast on Udaya TVand it
remains her favourite till date. Her performances were highly
appreciated by the audiences as well as her director, she proudly
recounts. She has not forgotten her first stepping stone, even as she
has progressed to other serials. When asked if she remembered any of her
old dialogues, she shyly replied, “I remember all from Manedevru.”
Harshhitha is currently working in Panchamaveda. She usually goes
to the set after school hours and the shooting often goes on till about
midnight. But the hardworking little girl is not complaining. “I love
being the youngest one on the set... I am pampered by everyone,” she
grins.
She is the first in her family to take to acting and here parents are
proud of her. Her mother, Usha, took her to her first audition and both
of them haven’t looked back ever since. “I was very scared for her first
audition. But she acted effortlessly and bagged the role,” she recalls.
“We allow her to choose what she wants to do. We cannot promise her a
lot of resources but she certainly has our support and encouragement,”
says her father, Umesh G.C., a head constable. She has not received any
formal training for acting yet but her parents, gauging her interest,
are planning to send her to an acting school soon.
What has changed in their lives since Harshhitha started acting? Her
mother responds: “My daughter is still the same. The only difference is
that now people recognise her on the streets or in the shops.”
The little girl is fond of a number of other things out of which Maggi
and ice-cream top her list. She loves the world of science, not for its
wonders but for its diagrams. She loves drawing too.
Does she want to become an artist or scientist if acting doesn’t work
out? She shakes her head. As much she likes science and drawing, acting
is where her heart and soul lie. The world of “lights, camera, action”
is where she wants to be.
Her favourite actors are Darshan and Shah Rukh Khan, and she dreams of
working with them someday. My, she has certainly got ‘stars in her
eyes’.
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