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Geetu Mohandas

Other names of Geetu Mohandas: Gayathri Mohandas, Geetu, Geethu Mohandas

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DOB : 14-02-1981
Age : 43
Star Sign : Aquarius
Gender : Female

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Geetu Mohandas is an Indian Filmmaker cum Actress who is now familiar for her Hindi film such as Liars Dice, which the made an official entry to the Oscars. Geetu born as Gayathri Haridas in Kannur district of Kerala in 1981.Geetu is married to cinematographer and both had a girl child Aradhana. She started her acting career at the age of 5 in the movie En Bommukutty Ammavukku in Tamil. In the film Onnu Muthal Poojayam Vare, she acted as a child artist with Mohanlal in the lead role. The film was directed by Ragunath Paleri. Her performance as a child artist was remarkable. She got Kerala state film award for best child artist for her performance in the movie Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare .Later she did many roles in Malayalam and Tamil movies.

She was then busy with her studies in Canada and in 2000 she made her come back through the movie Life is beautiful again co paired with her lucky hero Mohanlal. She then had a handful of films. In 2004, she got the Kerala state film award for the best actress for the movie Akalae co paired with Prithviraj and Sheila. She also won Filmfare award for the same movie .

She started her directorial venture in the Malayalam movie Kelkkunundo and received the Golden Lamp tree award and best short fiction award. in 2013 she directed a Hindi road drama movie Liars dice with and in the lead role. The film was written and directed by Geetu herself. The film got 2 National awards for best Actress and best Cinematography. Cinematographer in the movie was Geetu’s husband Rajeev Ravi. Liars Dice was the official entry for 87th Academy awards in foreign language section.

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Geethu Mohandas is a Malayalam actress, director. She was born on June 8,1981 in,Kannur, Kerala in India. She has acted in various Malayalam films. She adopted Geethu as her screen name. Her real name is Gayathri.She made her debut from “Onnu Mudhal Poojyam” in 1986 with Mohanlal in the lead role.

She has achieved two national awards for her socio-political film “Liars dice.” In 2009, she was awarded the IFFI Golden Lamp Tree Award for best film and director at the international film festival India . As an Actress, she got many awards such as ALA awards, Filmfare award south, Kerala state film award.

She studied in India as well as in foreign countries Malaysia and, Canada. She has a brother, Dr. ArjunDas. Her brother is a Nephrologist, currently living in the USA . On 14 November 2009, she married Rajeev Ravi, cinematographer at Kochi, Kerala. She has a daughter Aradhana. Geethu stole the heart of Malayalam film as she playeda fatherless child who discovered a father in an unknown telephone caller.

She is one of those female actresses who are avoided Being cast as a female lead.She has played Many challenging roles. Her first movie as an adult was “Life is Beautiful.” Her career’s highest point was “Akale”, for which she was awarded Kerala state award for best actress. She found her film production house in 2009 and produced a short fiction film Kelkkunnundo Are you listening. The film premiered at the International film festival.

Her first feature film The Liar’s dice received two national award.Her second feature film Moothon won the Global filmmaker award in 2016. Moothon was the opening film at MAMI 2019.