India, April 17 -- Kannada actor Kushee Ravi is ready to experience some magic again. When Dia was released in 2020 and was one of the few films to be well-received during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kushee experienced it for the first time. "We were just experimenting," she recalls in a laid-back chat with Hindustan Times. "None of us thought Dia would blow up like it did." And now, she's ready to do it again with Zee5's first original Kannada web series, Ayyana Mane, which will be released on April 25. (Also Read: Agnyathavasi an attempt to bring Kannada audiences to theatres and cross borders: Hemanth Rao)

Kushee might be married to Rakesh Kumar and have a daughter, but a '90s wife is something she's far from. And yet, she says, she enjoye...