# Suma Kanakala on Her Malayalam Roots and Telugu Anchoring Career - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120244609276326258 - Source account: [@ManojKumar5598](https://x.com/ManojKumar5598) - Source language: Malayalam - Target language: English - Duration: 9:52 - Published: 2026-11-10 - Machine translated. 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[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=5) You're always a host like this, aren't you? Now… [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=7) What does it feel like to be a guest like this? [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=11) A lot of people don't know that she's Malayali. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=16) Behind every successful man, there is a woman. [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=19) But behind every successful woman, there is a family. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=23) How does dance bring in a new style? That became Allu Arjun sir's biggest USP, didn't it? [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=30) We're going to meet them now. I have that kind of feeling… [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=32) When I saw Mohanlal sir, I had a tremendous feeling. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=39) He's a pan-Indian star who is with me. We can put it that way. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=44) Many people may realize he's actually Malayali only when they watch this interview. [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=48) That Suma ma'am is Malayali. So, how did a Malayali become a… in Telugu? [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=53) Could you tell us that story of becoming a superstar anchor? [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=55) Oh, I didn't know I was a superstar. I'm a host, an anchor. [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=59) My father and mother are both from Palakkad, so I was born in Palakkad. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=63) Because of my father's job, since he worked for the railways, he moved to Secunderabad, Hyderabad and Secunderabad, so That's how I ended up here. [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=71) After that, my entire education was in Secunderabad. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=75) I studied at Saint Ann School. But at home, it was only Malayalam. We were an orthodox Malayalam family. [1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=81) We spoke only Malayalam. And I would take part in all the programs at the Kerala Samajam here. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=87) I'd be there for the Onam celebrations every year. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=89) That's how we developed this artistic flair and lost our fear of the stage. [1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=93) I learned all this through our Malayalam roots. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=98) After that, when I was in tenth grade, I gave a performance, a dance performance like this. [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=103) That's where they got me a role in a Telugu television serial. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=107) Doordarshan invited me, asking, "Are you interested in acting?" [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=111) Then my mother and father had a very intense discussion all night. [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=114) With so many Telugu kids there, how could they call our Malayali child? [1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=118) They said, "Fine, let's go and see." The next morning, we went there, and then… [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=122) Because my memory was very good. Whatever the language, I could repeat it right away, like a parrot. [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=127) Then, just like that, when I said the Telugu dialogue, they said… [2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=130) That's when it all began. Then, after I came into Telugu, the Telugu writers and directors here… [2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=136) …taught me proper diction. Just like Malayalam, Telugu also has so many letters. [2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=141) Some letters need to be said with emphasis. [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=144) There are also letters that need to be said with changes in modulation. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=146) They taught me all of that. Right, I think it was during this film's promotion that a lot of Malayalis realized she was Malayali. [2:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=155) How was that? That was a kind of… They came on that Malayalam show and said they didn't know Malayalam, then she came on and said, “I know Malayalam.” It was a setup. [2:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=162) It was a setup. Then, Sharath, I should give a disclaimer first. [2:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=166) This is my first time doing an interview in Malayalam like this. [2:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=169) So, I'm very sorry if I make any mistakes. [2:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=172) And let me say something else. Sister, you speak Malayalam better than I do. [2:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=175) Oh, it's nothing like that. My Malayalam slang is typical Palakkad Malayalam slang. [2:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=179) So, that's the only slang I know how to speak. [3:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=182) Because all the anchoring here has to be in Telugu… [3:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=185) After all these years, we know all its grammar and proverbs. [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=188) But when speaking Malayalam, at home, with Mom and Dad, and then with our older sisters, that's where we speak it. [3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=194) This Palakkad dialect is the Malayalam we're going to speak today. [3:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=197) That's okay. Thank you. But we Malayalis understand this Malayalam very well. [3:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=201) Go ahead and speak freely, chechi. Then, when all those kids came for this banana… [3:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=206) we first had a little discussion, and said, 'Let's set this up like this,' and we all discussed it and agreed to do it that way. [3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=213) They come and wait onstage first. Then, when they come and speak in Malayalam, I go over and say, Kids, I know Malayalam. [3:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=221) That was the introduction I gave. It really went hugely viral all over Kerala… [3:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=225) It was something that went incredibly viral. [3:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=227) Back then, a lot of people asked about it: Wasn't that person Malayali? What is that? [3:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=230) A lot of people don't know I'm Malayali. [3:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=233) So there's one advantage. When I go to Palakkad, I can go anywhere very freely. [3:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=237) I can go, because not many people recognize me. [4:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=240) It's a little difficult here. It's been about twenty-five years now. I've been in film for twenty-five years now. [4:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=245) I started hosting. Twenty-five years of hosting. [4:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=247) Actually, it's been thirty-one years. I started acting. [4:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=251) Thirty-six, thirty-six years. Yes, don't calculate my age. [4:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=255) I started acting. Listening for each first call in Malayalam films like Newspaper Boy. [4:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=260) Then Newspaper Boy, Mr. Dhanam, yes, like that. [4:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=263) So, how did acting come into this? Then, have you ever… acting? [4:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=266) As an actor, have you always felt that something was missing? [4:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=269) No, because I never had that intention. I never intended to become an actress or an anchor. [4:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=275) Maybe the universe chose this profession for me. [4:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=278) That's what I always think. Depending on what they tell us in that song, we completely surrender to the directors and do what they say. [4:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=285) That's how we've always done the dialogue. [4:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=287) This path was created for us. So, I never have any regrets. [4:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=291) Has anyone been an inspiration on this journey? [4:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=295) In life, whether it's family or one's profession, who would you name as an inspiration? [5:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=300) My grandmother, Savithri Amma, is a huge inspiration. [5:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=304) Because at a very young age, with seven children, she lost her husband. [5:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=309) At that stage, she raised all those children. [5:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=312) They all went on to good positions. We, their grandchildren, are all in good positions too. [5:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=319) Whatever profession we're in, we're happy. [5:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=321) So, all of this has a... Our grandmother taught us these fundamentals. [5:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=327) So, our grandmother is a huge inspiration, isn't she? [5:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=330) I've seen it in the film Balan. Yes, yes. [5:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=332) Mother lived to a hundred years—one hundred and one. [5:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=335) So, when Mother was a hundred, I recorded a little interview with her on the phone. [5:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=338) Grandmother was making dosas while I recorded it. [5:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=341) So, she was so strong even at a hundred. [5:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=343) And there's Uncle too, right? Now... P. B. Menon sir. [5:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=347) We lovingly call him Thankappa Mama. He also turned a hundred, right? He turned a hundred. [5:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=354) And he's the only practicing advocate in the world. [5:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=357) He's a Guinness World Records holder. What an inspiration he is. [6:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=361) Just as Grandma is an inspiration, Thangappan Uncle is the same to us. [6:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=365) At a hundred years old, Thangappan Uncle… [6:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=367) He has all the money that he wants in the world. [6:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=369) He has all the facilities, but still… What keeps him going every day is discipline and a passion for work. [6:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=376) That is such a huge inspiration. And… Even when it comes to you, sister, you have that kind of passion, right? Yes. [6:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=381) And staying in one profession for 36 years isn't an easy thing. [6:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=385) Mm. Now, whatever profession we may choose, especially when it comes to the film industry, we could be out at any time. [6:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=390) Or it's a field where age can wear us down. Yes. [6:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=393) So how do you manage to keep going, not letting age wear you down, alongside today's kids… [6:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=397) When many people were growing up, there was also an older sister. [6:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=400) Still—Mm. Yes. She’s there with their children too. [6:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=404) How is that possible? I’ll say it here as a, as a joke. [6:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=407) I’ve seen every kind of makeup product. Okay, when I first started— It was a tube Miffy had mentioned. [6:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=414) From there, I’ve now seen the latest products from Nars. [6:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=416) I’ve seen the very latest. I’ve seen the very latest in technology too. [7:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=421) And in channels too, from Doordarshan to OTT platforms. [7:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=425) Yes, my biggest, uh, asset is consistency. [7:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=430) I do things very consistently. Like, When I compared myself recently, Galatta asked— “What do you compare yourself to?” When they asked— I said, “I am nature.” [7:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=439) Like, the sun in the morning, then the moon, then morning again. [7:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=442) My life has that kind of rhythm. Biggest asset and consistency. [7:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=447) And I really love keeping up with what’s trending, which new apps have come out, what youngsters are following these days, how to use Claude, and what I can get from Perplexity for my profession. [7:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=460) So I keep pulling from everything. Family is a huge inspiration, too. [7:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=465) My uncle’s husband is an actor, and his son is an actor. [7:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=468) So, overall, if you look at the family and its background, it’s all cinema. [7:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=472) My husband’s family also has a cinema background. [7:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=475) So, is the whole house steeped in cinema? [7:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=477) Yes, yes. Now the whole house is steeped in cinema. [7:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=479) At first, there wasn’t a single person in our family in this profession. [8:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=483) No, neither on my mother’s side nor my father’s side. Nobody was in this profession. [8:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=488) I was the first to enter this profession. [8:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=491) I remember, Grandma had told my mother then, "Hey, you're getting into movies here. [8:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=496) That's not something we should be doing." [8:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=498) But, somehow, Mom encouraged me to stay in this profession. [8:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=502) And family is very important, Sharath. I always say this: Behind every successful man, there's a woman. [8:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=510) But behind every successful woman, there's a family. [8:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=513) Because, whatever profession you're in, a woman is still responsible for the family. [8:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=519) I have to look after the house. And even now, I have to think about what's needed for cooking in the morning, what's for breakfast, and what's for lunch. [8:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=524) I have to manage all of this, take care of my children's health, and my husband. We do this profession while looking after all of that. [8:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=531) We need their support just as much. No, I mean, you’re most popular through this satirical comedy, sis. Yes. [8:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=536) That’s not an easy thing at all. Mm. Because we have all kinds of tension. [9:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=540) We get nervous when we go to a program. Sometimes we have some problem. We might be really upset. [9:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=545) But when we go on stage, we can’t show any of that. [9:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=548) There, we have to be someone else. Yes. How have you managed to keep that up for so long? [9:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=553) I’m very grateful to my family roots for that. [9:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=556) Because everyone has the same problem. Humor. [9:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=559) The whole family is sarcastic. My uncles, and my father’s side of the family, are just like that. [9:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=564) The Pullott family is the same way. The family in the Palachanappacha house is the same way. [9:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=568) So all the cousin brothers, uncles, everyone would come to a family get-together, and I'd crack a joke about him, then we'd trade jokes back and forth, "Yeah, you said it like this, we say it like this." [9:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=578) That was completely our upbringing. So I could use this as a language shift. [9:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=584) And even when we crack jokes like this in our family, it never hurts anyone. [9:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlHv4cORuNLB/en/suma-kanakala-on-her-malayalam-roots-and-telugu-anchoring-career?t=589) A very, uh, respite—