She normally played the chirpy kind of characters, but in Pithamagan she had to play an overconfident girl who stopped at nothing. Shouting, fighting, challenging, she had to do almost everything that went against the normal text book heroine. She did it with a lot of gumption, not going overboard on any instance. Another character that is in complete contrast is from a film by the same director, Bala’s Nandhaa. The subdued and soft spoken girl was so different from the regular characters associated with Laila.