Here is an important clarification about my interview with Manchu Lakshmi I have received several 'challenges' about some thing I did not say either in-person, or during my interview with Manchu Lakshmi. In part 2 of my interview between 15-18 min, there was a discussion about her dialogue delivery in movies. Lakshmi said 'somebody' said that she says dialogues almost like NTR. For the record, I NEVER said that she says dialogues on par with NTR. If you listen carefully, she also never said that I compared her to NTR. She went on to say that I personally commended her that she does better than her father in dialogue delivery. This is also not true. I did commend her confidence and I did say that she would have been as successful as she is today even if she weren't born as the daughter of Mohan Babu. I said this to her both in person and in the interview. Another professor who also met her at the same venue as I did may have compared her acting career to Mohan Babu's acting career. I believe that he opined that she would become a "thandrini minchina thanaya" in movie making. This other conversation she had with the other professor is what I had in mind when I said "vinnanu" to her in the interview. During the interview itself I missed the part that she was claiming that I compared her dialogue delivery to Mohan Babu. If was alert enough, I would have corrected her on that. But I do not recall anybody mentioning to her that in dialogue delivery she can be compared to even ...

• published: 30 Mar 2011
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• author: teluguone