Sindhu Menon

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

Sindu Menon
Born (1985-06-17) 17 June 1985
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
OccupationActress, TV anchor
Years active1994–2012
Spouse(s)Dominic Prabhu
(m.2010-Present)
Children2

Early life

Sindhu Menon was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India into a Malayali family.[1] She has one younger brother, Karthik, who worked as a Kannada music channel VJ and turned actor, recently.[2] Menon is able to communicate fluently in several languages, including Malayalam, her mother tongue, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English.[3][4] She was also brought up in her birthplace, Bangalore.[5]

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.[1][5] 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.[6]

Menon then moved to the "small screen", hosting TV shows and acting in serials, which include "Sriman Srimathi" and "Stree Hrudayam",[7][8] 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 Dominic Prabhu, a UK-based Telugu information technology professional in April 2010.[9] The couple has a daughter and a son.

Filmography
YearTitleLanguageRoleNotes
1994RashmiKannadaYoung RashmipriyaAs a child artist
1996HuliyaKannadaPuttagowriAs a child artist
1998Mari Kannu Hori MyageKannadaVedavati
1999Maha EdabidangiKannadaChoodamani
1999Prema Prema PremaKannadaSavithri
2001BhadrachalamTeluguMahalakshmi
UthamanMalayalamGowriNominated - Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam
SamuthiramTamilDurga
Akashathile ParavakalMalayalamSreedevi
Ee Nadu InnalevareMalayalamSreeja
Aaraam JaalakamMalayalamSwayamprabha
Kadal PookkalTamilMariyam
2002YouthTamilAruna
TrinetramTeluguAruna
NandhiKannadaDivya
2003Srirama ChandruluTeluguPallavi
InspectorTeluguSivani
Aadanthe Ado TypeTeluguDeepthi
VikramKannadaDivya
KhushiKannadaChaya
Mr. BrahmachariMalayalamSevvanthy
2004DharmaKannadaKavya
VeshamMalayalamVeni
JyeshtaKannadaGouriGuest appearance
2005Thommanum MakkalumMalayalamSheela
RajamanikyamMalayalamRani Rathnam
2006PulijanmamMalayalamShahnaz / Vellachi
PathaakaMalayalamNamitha Chawdhari
AnuvaadamillaatheMalayalamNeena
VaasthavamMalayalamVimala
2007DetectiveMalayalamReshmi
SketchMalayalamLekshmi
Ayur RekhaMalayalam
ChandamamaTeluguMaha Rani
2008RainbowTeluguKamala
Pakal NakshatrangalMalayalam
Yaare Nee HudugiKannada
AandavanMalayalamSreelekha
ThavalamMalayalamKanakam
Twenty:20MalayalamPadmini Mahindran
2009SidhamTeluguGauri
Bharya Onnu Makkal MoonnuMalayalamRajmohan's wife
Rahasya PoliceMalayalamRajan's wife
EeramTamilRamyaNominated, Vijay Award for Best Actress
2012Prema PilusthondiTeluguPooja
ManjadikuruMalayalamSudha Mema
SubhadraTeluguSubhadra

TV Serial
  • Vamsam - Malayalam
  • Karthika - Malayalam

References
  1. "Interview with Sindhu Menon". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  2. "Kangana foraying into Kannada!". Oneindia. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  3. "Sindhu Menon's focus is on Telugu and Tamil". telugudreams.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  4. "Sindhu Menon's asset". andhrastudio.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  5. "Sindhu hopes to produce films". indiainfo.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  6. "'Pulijanman' is the best". indiaglitz.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  7. "The real Sindhu". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 18 May 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  8. "Sindhu Menon back in Kannada". indiaglitz.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
  9. "Sindhu Menon got married secretly!". Oneindia.in. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
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