It is not as if Madhu Shalini is working for the first time in a Tamil film, she played a role in Bala’s Avan Ivan, this (Cheekati Rajyam or Thoongavanam) is her second film. The actor cites that she bagged the role through a tip off by Priya Anand. Now that she has worked in Kamal’s movie she is getting more offers from the Tamil land but people are indeed surprised if she is the same girl who worked in Bala’s film. Ask her why she is doing very little work she shoots back, “There are some films where you do good work but it goes unnoticed because of its fate at the box office. I am not competing with any actor just for some screen space in some film. I am growing slowly and steadily though I am not completely satisfied. I climb a step higher but never go beyond what I had done earlier.”