InterviewAs the lone woman in the field, Lakshmi talks of the difficulties she had to endure at work.CrisA chance conversation with director Lijo Jose Pellissery would markedly change Lakshmi Warrier’s life. And career. She was until then working in travel and tourism, with various airlines first and then a small company of her own in Bengaluru. She asked Lijo, a family friend, about movies having ‘travel partners’. Perhaps she could prepare celebrity-special packages, she thought. But Lijo told her it wasn’t a good idea. Why couldn't she try production instead, it was more suited to the vibrant person that Lakshmi was, he suggested. In the years that followed, Lakshmi would create history by becoming the only woman on the job – as a production manager in the Malayalam film industry. “I have moved on now, and am a producer. But it’s been a few eventful years, being...
- 9/28/2020
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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