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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Sindhu Menon



Born
June 17, 1985 (age 26)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation Actress, TV anchor
Years active 1994-present
Spouse Prabhu
Sindhu Menon (born on 17 June 1985) is an Indian actress, who has mainly appeared in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil films. She debuted as a child artist in the 1994 Kannada film Rashmi.

Early life

Sindhu Menon was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India into a Malayali family. She has one younger brother, Karthik, who worked as a Kannada music channel VJ and turned actor, recently. Menon is able to communicate fluently in several languages, including Malayalam, her mother tongue, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. She was also brought up in her birth place, Bangalore, where she pursued studies at the Sheshdaripuram College among others.

Career

Sindhu Menon, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer from her childhood, got her entry into the film industry when Bhasker Hegde, one of the judges of a Bharatanatyam competition in which Menon participated and emerged as the winner, introduced her to Kannada film director K. V. Jayaram, who cast her in his film Rashmi in 1994. Subsequently, she got several offers to act and became a full-time actress, by enacting the female lead role character in the 1999 film Prema Prema Prema, when she was merely 13 years old.
Later, at the age of 15, she entered the Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil film industries as well, by acting in the films Bhadrachalam, Uthaman and Samuthiram, respectively. She went on to act in Bharathiraja's Kadal Pookkal (2002), Trinetram (2002), Khushi (2003) and got the female lead role in the 2006 Malayalam film Pulijanmam, which was awarded the National Film Award for Best Film in 2007.
Menon then moved to the "small screen", hosting TV shows and acting in serials, which include "Sriman Srimathi" and "Stree Hrudayam", before accepting film offers again. Currently, she is acting in the Malayalam films, Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu, and Rahasya Police. She acted in the Tamil film Eeram, produced by popular Tamil director S. Shankar.

Personal life

Menon married Prabhu, a UK-based information technology professional in April 2010.

Filmography

Year Title Language Role Notes
1994 Rashmi Kannada

1999 Prema Prema Prema Kannada

2001 Bhadrachalam Telugu Mahalakshmi
Uthaman Malayalam Gowri
Samuthiram Tamil Dhurga
Aakasthile Paravakal Malayalam

Ee Nadu Ennalevare Malayalam

2002 Kadal Pookkal Tamil

Youth Tamil Aruna
Nandi Kannada

Trinetram Telugu

2003 Srirama Chandrulu Telugu

Inspector Telugu Sivani
Aadanthe Ado Type Telugu

Khushi Kannada

Mr. Brahmachari Malayalam Sevvanthy
2004 Dharma Kannada

Vesham Malayalam Veni
2005 Thommanum Makkalum Malayalam Sheela
Jyeshta Kannada
Guest appearance
Rajamanikyam Malayalam Rani Rathnam
2006 Pulijanmam Malayalam Shahnaz / Vellachi
Pathaaka Malayalam Namitha Chawdhari
Anuvaadamillaathe Malayalam Neena
Vaasthavam Malayalam Vimala
2007 Detective Malayalam Reshmi
Sketch Malayalam Lekshmi
Ayur Rekha Malayalam

Chandamama Telugu Maha Rani
2008 Rainbow Telugu Kamala
Pakal Nakshatrangal Malayalam

Yaare Nee Hudugi Kannada

Aandavan Malayalam Sreelekha
Thavalam Malayalam Kanakam
Manjadikuru Malayalam Sudha Mema
Twenty:20 Malayalam Padmini Mahindran
2009 Siddham Telugu Gauri
Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu Malayalam

Rahasya Police Malayalam

Eeram Tamil Ramya Nominated, Vijay Award for Best Actress
Prema Pilusthondi Telugu

2011 Subhadra Telugu Subhadra Filming

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