I am glad to come back alive: Mia

Miya and the crew of Joshiy’s Salaam Kashmir had a narrow escape recently.
The group was shooting at the Indo-Pak border at Kashmir, after taking all precautions and permissions. The shoot went off well, but a day after, news reached them that nine people were killed on the border in a shoot-out. “All of us were scared out of our wits,” says Miya. “We felt lucky to have managed 10 to 12 days of shoot at several locations in Kashmir and come back alive,” she says.
Jayaram and Suresh Gopi are also part of the crew of Salaam Kashmir, in which Miya plays Jayaram’s wife. “My character has a significant role in the story, and I appear in two guises, as a college girl and wife. It is a bold character, but I can’t reveal more about it as it might give away the story.” Miya says that this is the first time in her career that she is taking up such dual roles in a single film, but Joshiy gave her the confidence.
However, she adds that shooting in Kashmir was a great learning experience too. “We met Indian soldiers and learnt about their equipment; we even got to hold an AK 47 gun. We went around with military protection, and felt great respect for the soldiers. And of course, as anywhere else in the world, we kept bumping into Malayalis there too,” she says. Miya has also finished work for the Prithviraj-starrer Memories, which will hit the screens in August. “I play a journalist, a gusty character, in the thriller,” she says. She has also committed to an untitled movie to be directed by Vyshakh.
So, is she happy with the way her career is progressing? “I feel lucky to have bagged such films so early in my career,” she signs off.