Manjima Mohan

Manjima Mohan is an Indian film actress, who primarily appears in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu productions. She started her career as a child artist in late 1990's and early 2000's Malayalam films. Her first Malayalam film as a heroine in Oru Vadakkan Selfie with Nivin Pauly and second film in Tamil Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada, she received Best Female Debut at 64th Filmfare Awards South 2017.[1][2]

Manjima Mohan
Manjima Mohan during Puthuyugam TV interview
Born
Priyadarshini

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationActress, TV host
Years active1998 - 2004 2015 - present

Personal life

Manjima Mohan is the daughter of cinematographer Vipin Mohan and dancer Kalamandalam Girija. After completing her schooling at Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, she pursued a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Stella Maris College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Film career

Mohan was a leading child artist in Malayalam film industry in early 2000s later she also hosted a television call-in show for kids by the name ‘Hai Kids’ on Surya TV for three years which rose her fame among Malayali audience.

Despite having had acting experience, she said that she was "not at all confident" when she started shooting for the film and that the initial days were "terrifying".[3] Oru Vadakkan Selfie, which was directed by G. Prajith and scripted by Vineeth Sreenivasan, featured Manjima Mohan as the female lead.[4]

Upon the release of Oru Vadakkan Selfie, Mohan landed her first Tamil film, Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada.[2] Its director Gautham Menon, who was impressed with her work in Oru Vadakkan Selfie,[5] cast Manjima as the female lead, after she had gone through an audition.[6]

In 2017 she had two Tamil films, one opposite to Udhayanidhi Stalin[7][8] and the other Sathriyan opposite to Vikram Prabhu.[9] In 2019 , she made her come back to Malayalam with Mikhael opposite to Nivin Pauly for the second time. She has replaced Amala Paul in Zam Zam , official remake of Queen. She also has a few Tamil films in her kitty.In 2020,Upcoming movie Tughlaq Dubar with Vijay Sethupathi,Nikki Galrani and Manjima Mohan combo

Filmography
Year Title Role Language Notes
1997KaliyoonjalYounger AmmuMalayalamChild artist
1998MayilpeelikkavuGayathri's relativeChild artist
1999SaaphalyamSreethumolChild artist
2000PriyamAnuChild artist
ThenkasipattanamYounger DevoottyChild artist
MadhuranombarakattuMayaChild artist
2001Sundara PurushanSuryanarayanan's daughterChild artist
2002ThandavamUncredited RoleChild artist
2015Oru Vadakkan SelfieDaisy George
2016Sahasam Swasaga SagipoLeelaTelugu
Achcham Yenbadhu MadamaiyadaTamil
2017SathriyanNiranjana
Ippadai VellumBhargavi
2019N. T. R. KathanayakuduNara BhuvaneshwariTelugu
MikhaelMaryMalayalam
N.T.R: MahanayakuduNara BhuvaneshwariTelugu
DevarattamMadhuTamil
2020Zam ZamZama NazreemMalayalamPost-Production
Kalathil SandhippomTBATamilFilming
Tughlaq Dubar TBATamilFilming
FIRTBATamilFilming

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Film Result
2001Asianet Film AwardsBest child artistPriyamWon
2001Kerala State Film Award Kerala State Film Award for Best Child ArtistMadhuranombarakattuWon
2016SIIMABest Debut-Female (Malayalam)Oru Vadakkan SelfieNominated
2017Filmfare AwardFilmfare Award for Best Female Debut – SouthAchcham Yenbadhu MadamaiyadaWon
20176th South Indian International Movie AwardsBest Debut-Female (Tamil)Nominated
2017Edison Awards (India)Best debut actressWon

References
  1. "64th Filmfare Awards South 2017: R Madhavan wins Best Actor, Suriya bags Critics Award". India Today.
  2. "Manjima is the new heroine for Simbu". 14 May 2015.
  3. "She is Back!".
  4. Krishnakumar, G. (5 April 2015). "Selfie clicks, becomes year's first super-hit" – via www.thehindu.com.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 May 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Lady luck smiles on Manjima Mohan". 14 May 2015.
  7. "Udhayanidhi - Gaurav project titled as Ippadai Vellum". 5 January 2017.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Manjima Mohan cast opposite Vikram Prabhu - Times of India".
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