Sindhu Menon

Sindhu Menon
Sindhu Menon
Born	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Actress, TV anchor
Years active	1994–2012
Spouse	Prabhu (m. 2010)
Children	3

Sindhu Menon is an Indian former actress, who has starred in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films.

Early life

Sindhu Menon was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India into a Malayali family.^[1] She has an elder brother, Karthik, who worked as a Kannada music channel VJ and turned actor, recently.^{[citation needed]} And also two elder sisters. Sindhu Menon is fluent in several languages: Malayalam, her mother tongue; Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English.^[2]^[3] She was brought up in her birthplace, Bangalore.^{[citation needed]}

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 first place winner, introduced her to Kannada film director K. V. Jayaram, who cast her in his film Rashmi in 1994.^[1] 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.^[1]

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 alongside Kannada Star Sudeep in Nandi (2002), 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 Feature Film in 2007.^[4]

Menon then moved to the "small screen", hosting TV shows and acting in serials, which include "Sriman Srimathi" and "Stree Hrudayam",^[5]^[6] before accepting film offers again. In 2009, she appeared in the Malayalam films, Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu, and Rahasya Police. She also acted in the Tamil film Eeram, produced by popular Tamil director S. Shankar. She hosted a popular family reality show in Malayalam named,"Sriman Srimathi".

Personal life

Sindhu Menon married Prabhu, a Tamil Nadu information technology professional on 25 April 2010.^{[citation needed]} The couple have a daughter and two sons.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes
1994	Rashmi	Young Rashmipriya	Kannada	As a child artist
1996	Huliya	Puttagowri		As a child artist
1998	Kanasalu Neene Manasalu Neene	Soumya
1998	Mari Kannu Hori Myage	Vedavati
1999	Maha Edabidangi	Choodamani
1999	Prema Prema Prema	Savithri
2001	Bhadrachalam	Mahalakshmi	Telugu
	Uthaman	Gowri	Malayalam
	Samuthiram	Durga	Tamil
	Akashathile Paravakal	Sreedevi	Malayalam
	Ee Nadu Innalevare	Sreeja
	Aaraam Jaalakam	Swayamprabha
	Kadal Pookkal	Mariyam	Tamil
	Noopuram	-	Malayalam
2002	Youth	Aruna	Tamil
	Trinetram	Aruna	Telugu
	Nandhi	Divya	Kannada
2003	Srirama Chandrulu	Pallavi	Telugu
	Inspector	Sivani
	Aadanthe Ado Type	Deepthi
	Vikram	Divya	Kannada
	Khushi	Chaya	Kannada
	Mr. Brahmachari	Sevvanthy	Malayalam
2004	Dharma	Kavya	Kannada
	Vesham	Veni	Malayalam
	Jyeshta	Gouri	Kannada	Guest appearance
2005	Thommanum Makkalum	Sheela	Malayalam
2005	Rajamanikyam	Rani Rathnam
2006	Pulijanmam	Shahnaz / Vellachi
	Pathaaka	Namitha Chawdhari
	Anuvaadamillaathe	Neena
	Vaasthavam	Vimala
2007	Detective	Reshmi
	Sketch	Lakshmi
	Ayur Rekha
	Chandamama	Maha Rani	Telugu
2008	Rainbow	Kamala	Telugu
	Pakal Nakshatrangal		Malayalam
	Yaare Nee Hudugi	-	Kannada
	Aandavan	SI Sreerekha	Malayalam
	Thavalam	Kanakam
	Twenty:20	Padmini Mahindran
2009	Sidham	Gauri	Telugu
	Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu	Rajmohan's wife	Malayalam
	Rahasya Police	Rajan's wife	Malayalam
	Eeram	Ramya	Tamil
2012	Manjadikuru	Sudha Mema	Malayalam

TV Serial

Vamsam - Malayalam
Karthika - Malayalam

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Interview with Sindhu Menon". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^ "Sindhu Menon's focus is on Telugu and Tamil". telugudreams.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^ "Sindhu Menon's asset". andhrastudio.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^ "'Pulijanman' is the best". indiaglitz.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^ "The real Sindhu". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 18 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
^ "Sindhu Menon back in Kannada". indiaglitz.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

External links

Sindhu Menon at IMDb

[Interview_with_Sindhu_Menon-1] "Interview with Sindhu Menon". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

[2] "Sindhu Menon's focus is on Telugu and Tamil". telugudreams.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

[3] "Sindhu Menon's asset". andhrastudio.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

[4] "'Pulijanman' is the best". indiaglitz.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

[5] "The real Sindhu". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 18 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

[6] "Sindhu Menon back in Kannada". indiaglitz.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2009.

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