We saw Mareena Micheal last in the 2020 comedy thriller film Mariyam Vannu Vilakkoothi. Her next is the Anoop Menon directorial Padma, which also stars the actor-director himself and Surabhi Lakshmi. Mareena reveals that she plays a psychiatric patient in the film. She says, “Anoop Menon is a psychiatrist in the movie and interestingly, he often faces people who share with him issues that he faces in his own personal life. One of the cases he handles is that of mine, in the story.” The actress also has the films Randu, Jagala, the anthology Veyil Veezhave and the Tamil film Mathrudarmai coming up.

A few months ago, the actress had also contracted COVID-19 and she was in quarantine in her home in Kochi. Mareena recalls that she realised that she was infected, after she landed in Kerala post her Tamil film shoot in Chennai. “I have sinusitis, so initially I thought the symptoms are of that. But then, throat infection and body pain followed, and I took an RT-PCR test, which revealed I am positive,” she remembers. Mareena decided to quarantine in her Kochi home. “I had no major issues as such, initially, and started to train myself on ukulele, alongside frequently doing steaming. But, on day 12, I had terrible back pain and I even thought I would die, due to its intensity. I guess it was because I couldn’t move around much in the house, and the constant sitting and lying down resulted in the pain. I took an online consultation, and by day 5 of the medication I was fine.”

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