Kollywood an ideal place for work

The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : They find Kollywood an ideal place for work: " The woman assistant directors are upbeat and ambitious about their career The woman assistant directors are upbeat about their careers.

It was Aarthi Sivakumar's dream to enter the film industry. She tried contacting Santosh Sivan for over a year before she could finally meet the director. He put her on to Sreekar Prasad and Janaki Viswanath. She worked with Ms. Viswanath in `Kanavu Meippada Vendum' and Mr. Sivan in the award-winning `Navarasa.'

Amitha Madan, whose first film is `Pudupettai.' Her entry happened overnight, literally. The Electronic Media graduate met director Selvaraghavan and left for work the following day.

Soundarya Srinivasan, a student of Visual Communication heard that director Vishnuvardhan was looking for assistant directors.

Divya Madan, also a student of Visual Communication.

She met Gautham Menon and gave up her job that very night. Divya has worked in `Garshana' (Telugu version of `Khaaka Khaaka') and `Vettayadu Vilayadu.'"