Amala on screen after 23 years in Tamil

Yesteryear heartthrob Amala has decided to comeback to Tamil, but only on the small screen. She is all set to play the lead role in a Television serial titled Uyirmei. The shooting for the film will start in a couple of weeks and Amala will be visiting Chennai after a long time. “It is always a pleasure to visit the city. Whenever I feel down, I think of Chennai. There is always so much love and warmth that I receive from this city,” says the Agni Natchathiram actress.

“It revolves around the life of 12 doctors and I play one of the leads in that. It is a very interesting script and I just couldn’t refuse,” says Amala to a daily when quizzed about Uyirmei. She was recently seen in a cameo in Vikram Kumar’s Manam. Her last full-fledged role was Shekar Kammual’s Life is Beautiful, a role which fetched her Filmfare award for the best supporting actor. Her last Tamil film was Karpoora Mullai directed by Fazil in 1991.