Following Ala Modalaindi, she starred in Santosh Sivan's historical fiction Urumi as part of an ensemble cast. Nandini Reddy, later, went on to describe Menen as "the discovery of the decade". Further more, she also sang two songs for the soundtrack album of the film, tuned by Kalyani Malik. 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. The film opened to favourable reviews by critics and turned out to become a sleeper hit, while Menen received critical praise for her performance. In 2011, her first release was Nandini Reddy's romantic comedy Ala Modalaindi, which was Menen's maiden Telugu venture as well. The film received mixed to negative reviews, but became a hit at the box office.Ģ011–2012: Telugu debut and breakthrough In 2010, she starred in the Malayalam film, Apoorvaragam where she plays Nancy, a young girl who gets involved with two male students ( Nishan and Asif Ali) who are later discovered to be con-artists. 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. She next made a comeback into Kannada films with the super hit film Josh. 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 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. Kumaran, marked her Malayalam debut in a leading role in which she was paired with Mohanlal.
The 2008 off-beat film Aakasha Gopuram, directed by National Film Award-winning director K. In 2006, Menen started her acting career in a supporting role with the Kannada film 7 O' Clock directed by cinematographer Santosh Rai Pataje. 2006–2010: Debut in Kannada and Malayalam Career 1998–2001: Debut as child actress Īs a child, Nithya had acted in a French-Indian English film named The Monkey Who Knew Too Much, at the age of 10, playing younger sister to Tabu's character.
Nandini Reddy, who convinced Menen to take up acting. During the school's entrance exam, she met B. She has said that she initially wished to become a journalist, but ultimately found journalism unappealing, so she pivoted to filmmaking, and enrolled in a cinematography course at the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune. She was educated at Poorna Prajna School and Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.
Menen cannot read or write Malayalam and identifies herself as a Kannadathi. Nithya Menen was born on 8 April 1988 in Bangalore to Malayali parents settled in Karnataka.
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