Priyamani

Infobox actor
name = Priyamani


caption =
birthdate = Birth date and age|1984|6|4|mf=y
location = flagicon|India Palakkad, Kerala, India
Mother tongue = Malayalam
height = 5' 6’’
birthname = Priyamani
othername = Priya
Occupation = Actress
homepage =
nationalfilmawards=Best Actress
2007 "Paruthi Veeran"
filmfareawards= Best Actress (Tamil)
2007 "Paruthi Veeran"

Priyamani is a South Indian actress She won the prestigious National Film Award for Best Actress for her successful role "Muthazaghu" in film Paruthiveeran. She started her career with the film "Kangalal Kaithu Sei", which was a flop at the box-office. Afterwards, she was paired with Dhanush in Balu Mahendra's "Adhu Oru Kana Kaalam", which flopped at the box-office as well.

Background

Priya Mani was born on June 4 in Palakkad, Kerala in 1984. She was brought up in Bangalore. She started her film career with her debut film in Kollywood called Kangalal Kaithu Sei alongside actor Vaseegaran. The film was a flop at the box-office and she moved on to Malayalam and Telugu films owing to a lack of offers in Tamil films. She made her Telugu debut in Pellaina Kothalo with Jagapati Babu. Priyamani rose to fame with this film. Priyamani has made her Tamil comeback with her film Paruthiveeran starring debutant Karthik Sivakumar. She has also signed on for another Tamil film in which she plays the lead role with actor Jeevan.

Priyamani was born in Palakkad to Vasudeva Mani Iyer and Latha ManiIyer . She is the most notorious one in her school days and she has done modeling for Kancheepuram silks, Erode silks and Lakshmi silks. After her 12 th standard it was the famous Tamil Director, Bharathiraja who introduced her into film industry. Priyamani has a great craze for acting and her favorite actors include Mammooty, Anant Nag and Mohanlal. Being a very smart talkative girl, she loves chatting with people and her hobbies include music and dance.She is Bollywood actress Vidya Balan's first cousin and she has won the National award for her best performance in Paruthiveeran.

Future Projects

Priyamani is satisfying everyone in tollywood (cinemirchi.com) Priyamani, the dusky beauty , is hoping to please younger generation as well as older generation parallelly. It is a fact that she is being paired opposite to Nandhamuri Balakrishna in two films. One film is being directed by Mahadev, who is making his debut as a director and another film is being directed by N. Shanker which is a film produced by Actress Priyamani. The films are both scripted as action oriented films with some interesting scenes over the present political scenario.

Meanwhile, Priyamani will also be seen as a lover to young hero Nithin in his next film DRONA. This film is already 60% complete, but still some vital scenes are going to be caned in the coming 15 days. This film is said to be a romantic action thriller with Priyamani in a stylish tomboy role.So, surely as said , Priyamani has a perfect charm and vigor to please the younger and the older audience.

Filmography

External links

Interviews

* [http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/interview/6097.html Priyamani Interview at Indiaglitz]

News

* [http://www.extramirchi.com/movies/priyamani-wins-national-award-for-best-actress Priyamani wins National Award for Best Actress(2006)]

* [http://www.nowrunning.com/news/news.asp?it=10871 Pryamani teamed up with Vishal in "Malaikottai"]

* [http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/june-07-01/08-06-07-priyamani.html Priyamani turns glamorous in Malaikottai]

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