Mamitha Baiju Breaks Silence On Harsh Industry Discrimination Shocks!

Every shining face on screen usually hides a few scratches underneath. Mamitha Baiju knows that. Her path didn’t come wrapped in red carpets or fancy breaks. It took one Malayalam film, Premalu, to flip her world. Before that, she was just another name in the credits. After it, calls, meetings, new languages. She jumped into Tamil cinema with Rebel alongside G.V. Prakash Kumar. The film didn’t exactly light up the box office, but Mamitha didn’t sit around waiting for sympathy either. She just moved on, fast.

Now she’s part of Jananayakan with Vijay and Dude with Pradeep Ranganathan. Funny thing is, she never really planned any of this. “I didn’t think I’d even work in Tamil,” she said in an interview, half laughing, half wondering how it all happened. She picks roles that feel right, that’s it. Maybe that’s her charm, she doesn’t sound like she’s trying to be perfect, just real.

When asked about facing bias in another language industry, she shrugged. “No, nothing like that,” she said. Her real challenge was Tamil itself. In the early days, every dialogue felt like tongue-twister practice. But the people around her, her makeup guy and hair stylist, kept teaching her random words on set. Bit by bit, she got the hang of it. Now, she says she can read and write it too. You can almost hear the quiet pride in her voice when she says that.

About her Dude co-star Pradeep Ranganathan, she smiles, “He’s chaos, but in a good way.” They shared a lot of laughs between takes, she says, but she also picked up a few acting tricks from him. There’s no big drama in her story, no victim narrative, no heroic ending, just a girl figuring things out one movie at a time. Maybe that’s why people like her. She sounds like someone who’s just walking her path, without making too much noise about it.