Manjima Mohan is an Indian film actress, working predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Manjima, hailing from Palakkad, Kerala, started her car...
Manjima Mohan is an Indian film actress, working predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Manjima, hailing from Palakkad, Kerala, started her career as a child artiste in late 1990's and early 2000's. For which, she won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist for her performance in Madhuranombarakattu (2000). After taking a break from acting, she focussed on her studies, and made her comeback in 2015 as the leading lady in the film Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2015).
Personal life
Manjima Mohan is the daughter of cinematographer Vipin Mohan and dancer Kalamandalam Girija. After completing her Plus Two 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
In 1998, Manjima made her acting debut as a child actress in Malayalam films. Her first role was in Kaliyoonjal in which she portrayed the younger version of Shobana's character Gauri. She continued to work as a child artist for three years in films including Priyam and Madhuranombarakattu, the latter earning her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist, besides hosting Hai Kids, a television call-in show for children. After Thandavam, she took a break from acting to concentrate on her education.
During her final year of college, she was approached with the script of Oru Vadakkan Selfie. Although she had not planned to relaunch her acting career, she accepted the offer after she had listened to and "fell in love with" the story and her character Daisy, who Manjima described as "poised, silent and a bookworm" and unlike her real life persona. 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". Oru Vadakkan Selfie, which was directed by G. Prajith and scripted by Vineeth Sreenivasan, featured Manjima Mohan as the female lead. The film opened to positive reviews and became the first major box office hit in 2015.
Upon Oru Vadakkan Selfie's release, Manjima landed her first Tamil film, Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada. Its director Gautham Menon, who was impressed with her work in Oru Vadakkan Selfie, cast Manjima as the female lead, after she had gone through an audition.
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