Nithya Menon

Short Biography

Nithya Menen studied journalism at Manipal institute of communications, but she was not successful in the journalism profession and so she took a chance to act in movies and she performed very well and so decided on being an Actress.She has worked in a movie when she was just 10 years old so she has started her film career as a child artist in 1998 and that was an English language movie that’s name was “The monkey who knew too much”.Nithya Menen has sung songs for many Indian movies and here are some most famous songs list of her like Payasa, Ammammo Ammo, Payasam, Doore Doore Neengi, Thu Hi Rey, Kanneer Thulilye (Duet), Hi my name is malini, Yennali (Immigrant Mix), Edo Anukunte, Oh Priya Priya, Arere Arere, Modala Maleyante (Duet), Hi my name is malini, Madharthamma (Immigrant Mix), Navve Kaluva (Duet). She has worked in so many South Indian movies and here I am providing her most famous movies list like Seven O’ Clock, Josh, Kerala Cafe, Apoorvaragam, Aidondla Aidu, Urumi, Nootrenbadhu, Veppam, Ishq, Karmayogi, Doctor Innocent aanu, Poppins, Jabardasth, Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde, Bangalore Days, JK Enum Nanbanin Vaazhkai, S/O Satyamurthy, O Kadhal Kanmani, Akasha Gopuram, Vellathooval, Angel John, Anwar, Ala Modalaindi, "180", Violin, Makaramanju, Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty, Ustad Hotel, Bachelor Party, Okkadine, Myna, [[Malini 22 Palayamkottai, Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju, 100 Days of Love, Kanchana 2 and many others.Nithya Menen is an Indian film actress and playback singer. She has acted in Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil films. She won 2 Filmfare Awards for the Telugu films Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju.Early life Nithya Menen was born in Bangalore, Karnataka to a family of Malayali background . She studied journalism at the Manipal University. She once said in an interview that she never wished to become an actress but a journalist, as she was "an idealist", but felt journalism was "not what it used to be". She then decided to become a filmmaker as she could express her ideas "better through films", and enrolled for a course in cinematography at the FTII Pune. During the educational entrance examination, she met B. V. Nandini Reddy, who "brainwashed" and convinced her to take up acting. Nandini Reddy would later turn director and sign Nithya for the lead female role in her first project.Career Menen appeared first on screen as a child artist when she was ten in the Indian English language film, The Monkey Who Knew Too Much (1998), playing the younger sister to Tabu's character. In 2006, she started her acting career as a lead actor with the Kannada film 7 O' Clock directed by Kannada's top cinematographer Santosh Rai Pataje. The 2008 off-beat film Aakasha Gopuram, directed by National Film Award-winning director K. P. Kumaran, marked her Malayalam debut, in which she was paired with Mohanlal. She was in the midst of her 12th class exams when she was offered the role, after Mohanlal had spotted her on the front cover of a tourism magazine, Stark World Kerala. Her performance was well received, with critics writing that she shows "sparkle in her debut venture" and "makes her entry in an impressive role", though the film, based on the Norwegian play The Master Builder, got mixed reviews and was a financial failure. She next made a come back into Kannada films with the super hit film Josh. She played a supporting role in the film, which received rave reviews, and became a commercial success as well, with her performance garnering her a nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category at the 57th Filmfare Awards South.In 2011, her first release was Nandini Reddy's romantic comedy Ala Modalaindi, which was Nithya's maiden Telugu venture as well. The film opened to favourable reviews by critics and turned out to become a sleeper hit, while Nithya received critical praise for her performance. Idlebrain's Jeevi in his review cited that she "epitomized Nitya character with her fabulous performance", "looks beautiful in all kinds of dresses" and was "the best debut in recent years of Telugu cinema after Samantha in YMC", while another critic wrote that she was a "charming find" and "...quite the Genelia replacement that our cinema so badly needs right now." She eventually won the Nandi Award for Best Actress for her performance and received a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actress at the 59th Filmfare Awards South.[ Further more, she also sang two songs for the soundtrack album of the film, tuned by Kalyani Malik. Nandini Reddy, later, went on to describe Nithya as "the discovery of the decade". Following Ala Modalaindi, she starred in Santosh Sivan's historical fiction Urumi as part of an ensemble cast. She portrayed a Chirakkal princess named Bala, playing the love interest of Prabhu Deva's character, which gained positive remarks, with a Sify review claiming that she "looks pretty and is a scene stealer". Nithya quoted that much of her character was based on "Santosh's perception of who I am", with Sivan stating that he had written that role for her and that only she could play it.She received a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 59th Filmfare Awards South She next appeared in ad-filmmaker Jayendra's bilingual venture 180/Nootrenbadhu, made and released in Tamil and Telugu, in which she played a photo journalist named Vidhya. She described the character as "bubbly, full of life, nosey, wide-eyed and innocent in life" and to be similar to herself. Later the year, she was seen in Sibi Malayil's Violin in Malayalam and the Gautham Menon-produced Veppam in Tamil.Her first 2012 release was the Telugu romance film Ishq with Nitin Reddy.She received the CineMAA Award for Best Actress(jury) while received best actress nomination at the same event and at the SIIMA Awards.She acted in Karmayogi, a Malayalam adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. For the Kannada film Aidondla Aidu she had sung and also choreographed one of the songs, titled "Payasa". She was seen in two Malayalam projects, T. K. Rajeev Kumar's Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty, in which she portrayed a village woman whose daily life is filmed and broadcast as a reality show for a month, and Ustad Hotel directed by Anwar Rasheed.In 2013, she starred in three Telugu films, Okkadine, Jabardasth and Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and one Kannada movie Mynaa. She played a character with two shades in Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and she dubbed for her as well as for the character of her co-star Isha Talwar.For this movie, she received her first Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress at the 61st Filmfare Awards South. In 2014, she made a cameo in the Malayalam movie Bangalore Days, which became the highest grosser of that year. Her Kannada film Mynaa which won the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Kannada in which she plays a character of a physically challenged girl, became a huge blockbuster hit completing 100 days in many centers across Karnataka and her performance was well praised by the critics. She has paired up with Sharwanand for the 2015 Telugu movie Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju.Her performance was well praised by the critics eventually receiving her Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress South and receiving her second nomination at Filmfare. She did a minor role in the film S/O Satyamurthy, directed by Trivikram'. She appeared opposite Dulquer Salmaan in two films in 2015, 100 Days of Love, a romantic Malayalam film and OK Kanmani, bilingual film directed by Mani Ratnam'. Dulquer and Nithya's on-screen chemistry was praised in the reviews of both films.For OK Kanmani, she received her first Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress nomination.Her upcoming release is K. S. Ravikumar's bilingual project titled Kotigobba 2.Nithya Menon Nithya Menon is an Indian actress and playback singer, best known in South Indian films. In 1998 she made her acting debut as a child artist in an Indo-English language film "The Monkey Who Knew Too Much". She made her Tollywood debut with Ala Modalaindi. Nithya has bagged 2 Filmfare Awards for her films Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde and Malli Malli Idhi Rani Roju. She was last seen in Telugu movie Ghatana. Biography Nithya was born on 8 April 1988 in Bangalore, Karnataka. She has completed graduation in Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. She never thought to be an actor, but planned to be a journalist. But later she decided to be a film-maker and joined a course in cinematography at the FTI Pune. During her enterance exam she met director Nandini Reddy, which turned Nithya a successful actress. Nithya Menon, Personal ProfileName : Nithya MenonNick Name : NityaBirthplace : Bangalore, KarnatakaDate of birth : 8 April 1988Height : 5'2"Hobbies : Dancing, Lisening Music, Reading Books and Watching MoviesEducation : Graduation in JournalismOccupation : Actress, Playback singerFamily Nithya Menen was born into a Malayali family. She always maintains a low key profile regarding her family. Currently, her parents are living in Bangalore. Marriage In an interview, actress Nithya shared that, she fell deeply in love with her college mate and was in the relationship with him for a while. Later she realized that, the guy was not the one she dreamt of and has broken up with him. Gossip is that, she has been linked up with her co-star Dulquer Salman.Career As a teenager, short beauty Nitya Menon was first seen in the Kannada film Seven O' Clock. Later she played the leading role opposite Mohanlal in Malayalam movie Aakasha Gopuram. Her first Telugu movie as an actor & singer was "Ala Modalaindi" alongside Nani, which earned her three awards. Later she was seen in the film 180 alongwith Siddharth and Priya Anand. Nithya's 2012 release was the Telugu romantic hit film Ishq. In 2015, she starred in historical movie Rudramadevi. Her 2016 films are 24, Rajadhi Raja, Okka Ammayi Thappa, Janatha Garage, Iru Mugan (Tamil) and Ghatana.In Ghatana Ghatana is a 2016 film directed by Sripriya and produced by Rajkumar Sethupathy. It is an official remake of super hit Malayalam film '22 Female Kottayam'. It featured Nithya Menon in the role as Malini.