Remember Lola Kutty?

Former VJ Anu Menon won hearts as the madcap Lola Kutty. Here's what she is up to now...

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00:00I get loads of loving messages you know from people to say Lola we miss you

00:04and I never reply and say oh I miss you back because I don't know you.

00:09It was my full-time job and I played her for like um seven eight years so that's a

00:15that's a large chunk of of my life my youth she's taken away my youth I tell you.

00:30When I first started stand-up it's almost like a half the people very

00:56divided because they were like oh my god she's nothing that the character

00:58that we knew and loved and she seems very normal so somehow I had tarnished

01:02their impression of a character by being the real person you know and the other

01:08half very happy that I was nothing like Lola.

01:13I was that hard-working nerd in the corner who loved to study would come

01:18back and tell her grandfather come let's study and do homework.

01:34It was almost like a Jekyll and Hyde the teachers couldn't believe like Anuradha

01:38where have you been all this time?

01:53I was told listen given your interests you know Anu, theatre, acting, accents, comedy

02:00you'll never make it so as a woman you have the advantage you can marry money and then you can do

02:05what you want okay then it was oh with that face you know you don't look like a

02:11conventional you have a mole on your chain you have a scar on your face you don't look perfect

02:15enough I mean with this size what will you do if you were an actress on my set I would never let you eat.

02:27When I met the head of channel B at the time he said listen Anu

02:30you'll see mad and fun and come and hang with us I said okay I'll hang but I should do something

02:37so I just thought at that time it'd be fun to play a character because I'm not cut out to be

02:41cool and say yo check it out coming up next and all that and also I don't think people believed

02:49I was from the south I was that you know how can she be from Madras but she's fair

02:53but she doesn't have buck teeth but she's she can speak some Hindi and all you know all that jazz

03:10I mean at one time there was a party at channel B I was not allowed to enter because the guard was

03:14like who is this? It's a cool party going on inside madam what are you doing here?

03:19I mean I work in the channel

03:34I really appreciated the few hate mails I got I got only two thankfully one was which I mentioned

03:41earlier from a guy in Kerala who said may God forgive you for earning money this way

03:47and I thought so cute Baiju wants God to forgive me also his name is Baiju so you know he has other

03:52things to be sorry about the other thing I know one one Malayali family they didn't want their

03:57son to marry me because I was Lola so I was like oh dear

04:08initially I would get like a bad reaction from people

04:12I mean being a mother she's making fun of her kid and I was like listen if I have to

04:16pay for my son's material needs in a material world I can use him as material that's it

04:27I would just like to leave you with a very deep thought

04:33when an elephant and a rhinoceros fight only the earth gets hurt

04:41if you think about it it will make sense okay