Malayalam actor Lena turns scenarist with ‘Olam’

Lena will also act in the film, she co-wrote with first-time director VS Abhilash

Among the things actor Lena did during lockdown was attend online filmmaking courses and workshops. It resulted in her writing the first draft of a script she intends to make into a film sometime later. However, another she co-wrote with debutant director/writer VS Abhilash — Olam — goes on the floors in August. “It is a new thrill, I was hooked to the process,” she says of turning writer. Rather than “brood and focus on the negativity [during the pandemic and lockdown], I did constructive things. This (writing) was an escape into fantasy. I am a workaholic. If not for all of this I would have driven myself up the wall,” she says of the things she did during the lockdown.