Bhavana Balachandran

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Bhavana
Born	Karthika Balachandran^[1] June 6, 1986 (1986-06-06) (age 22) Thrissur, Kerala India
Years active	2002-present

Bhavana (Malayalam: ഭാവന , born June 6, 1986) is a South Indian actress who acts in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu movies. She made her debut in Kamal's Nammal which won her critical acclaim and various honours, including the State award.

1 Family
2 Career
3 Awards
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links

Family

This Thrissur girl, whose real name is Karthika, is the daughter of Asst. Cinematographer, G.Balachandran Menon and Pushpa. She has one brother named Jayaddev currently living in Vancouver, Canada.

Career

She debuted in Malayalam film Nammal opposite newcomers like Siddharth, Jishnu and Renuka Menon. The film was a big success and she got several offers in Malayalam. She has acted with almost all actors of Malayalam including Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Jayaram, Prithviraj, Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya etc. Then in 2003, she became the part of big hit movies like Chronic Bachelor, C.I.D.Moosa, Swapnakoodu etc.In 2004 her career turned dim. Her movies like Youth Festival, Parayam, Bunglavil Outha etc bombed at the box-office. She appeared in an Item Number in the film Runway in 2004. Her career was not a successful one in 2004. She got the State Awardfor Best Character Actress for Daivanamathil in 2006. In 2006 she acted only two films. Chinthamani Kolacase, Chess were the films and were successes. Her latest movie Chotta Mumbai is an average hit with top Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal.

Though she got several Tamil films she refused them due to tight schedules. Her first Tamil film originally offered was Koodal Nagar opposite Bharath but shelved due to some technical difficulties, but completed and released recently in April 2007. Her first released Tamil film Chithiram Pesuthadi was a huge success. After that she did many tamil films. Her latest movie Jeyam Kondaan opposite Vinay got generally positive reviews and she was praised for her prim and proper potrayal of a small town girl. Bhavana depicted a complete new style and look specially in the songs and was noted to have reduced a lot of weight finally fitting in the profile of glamourous and beautiful Kollywood heroines.

Awards

FilmFare Award For Best Actress in 2006
State Award for Best Character Actress in 2006
Ujala-Asianet Award for Best Character Actress in 2006
Mathrubhumi - Medimix Award for New face Actress in 2004

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Langauge	Notes
2002	Nammal	Parimalam	Malayalam
2003	Chronic Bachelor	Sandhya	Malayalam
	Thilakkam		Malayalam	Special appearance
	C.I.D.Moosa	Meena	Malayalam
	Ivar		Malayalam
	Swapnakoodu	Padma	Malayalam
	Valathottu Thirinjal Nalamathe Veedu	Sangeetha Varma	Malayalam
2004	Parayam		Malayalam
	Chathikkatha Chanthu	Indira	Malayalam
	Youth Festival		Malayalam
	Runway		Malayalam	Special appearance
	Amrutham		Malayalam
2005	Bunglavil Outha		Malayalam
	Hridayathil Sookshikkan	Amritha	Malayalam
	Police	Sethulakshmi	Malayalam
	Daivanamathil	Sameera	Malayalam
	Chandhupottu	Rosa	Malayalam
	Naran		Malayalam
2006	Chithiram Pesuthadi	Charu	Tamil	Winner: Filmfare Best Tamil Actress Award
	Chinthamani Kolacase	Chintamani	Malayalam
	Kisan		Malayalam
	Chess	Radhika	Malayalam
	Kizhakku Kadalkarai Salai	Priya	Tamil
	Veyil	Meenakshi	Tamil
2007	Deepavali	Susi	Tamil
	Koodal Nagar	Manimekalai	Tamil
	Chotta Mumbai	Latha	Malayalam
	Arya	Deepika	Tamil
	Rameswaram	Vasanthi	Tamil
2008	Vaazhthugal	Kayalvizhi	Tamil
	Ontari	Bujji	Telugu
	Mulla		Malayalam	Special appearance
	Jayamkondaan	Annapurani	Tamil
	Hero	Krishnaveni	Telugu
	Twenty:20	Ashwathy Nambiar	Malayalam
	LollyPop	Rosebella	Malayalam	Filming