Rashmika Madanna captured the imagination of all with her performances in Pushpa franchise and Animal. However her latest film Thamma failed at the box office. Her next film The Girlfriend is releasing on 7 November 2025.
In the meantime, Rashmika Mandanna speaking to scribes shared her thoughts on her future plans. She said "I wanted to do characters which are not just variety in emotions and performances but variety in personalities as well. When they came to me for Tadaka, it was just so strange and so different that I dived right into it. It is once in a lifetime that you get to play a creature which is not human in the most beautiful way,"
On her experience in starring in Thamma, she said "I remember telling him, 'Sir, I'm a white slate, you tell me what to do, you tell me how to do this and you tell me how much of the emotions I need to do'. I'm basically a director's child, anything the director wants, I give... That's how I've always approached films, that's how I've always been able to give the performances that I have."
About her role name Tadaka, she added "How they cry, laugh, feel, that's all very foreign to her. And for me, I just kept observing... she's also copying Alok because she's lived for so long in the jungle that she's forgotten all these things. So, these are the small details that I personally worked on but overall it is full credit to the team."
She continued "I read the reviews. I'd be lying if I say I don't, but at the same time, I'm someone who thinks like an audience. I've always picked my script as an audience... Whenever I hear a script, I just know whether I want to do the film or not. And there are many films that I have let go of, which I have never regretted about because I just knew that what is to be mine will be mine. So I've always picked my films like that. "I feel like my choices are such that I want to do different characters. I don't want to be stereotyped, like 'she does only commercial films or she does only niche films or she does only performance oriented'. I will do them all. I want to do them all. And that's a conscious decision."
About her upcoming films, she added "It's ('The Girlfriend') not a commercial film. It's a different kind of film... I thought it was an important story to be told," she said. "'Myssa' is a full blown commercial film. If I didn't have Ravi sir directing the film, I probably wouldn't have done it. It always depends on who you work with, script, how big the film is, the placement, everything matters. And if it makes sense to me, I will be a part of it."