Going by the trailer, Balan appears to play a mature, bold woman with Shaima, and the actress agrees. “Shaima goes through a journey that is different from everybody else’s. Only after that, she retorts, “I will decide what I want to do.” — the dialogue you see in the trailer,” the actress says.
In an earlier interview, Balan told Film Companion that with every film, she tries to break the limitations in her acting. With Padavettu, for instance, the actress says she got to explore romance for the first time. She says, “I haven’t done romance before, I think we first shot the ‘Mazha Pattu’ song. I was very nervous but later I realised that it’s very easy.”
She adds that she is not looking for only female-centric films. What matters to her is how much her character contributes to the storyline. “If the role is only for 5 minutes but the character is important, I will do it. I am not looking for an eye candy-type character.”