Manya

Manya is an actress from South India who did roles in almost all South Indian languages. Although she started off her career in Telugu cinema, she went on to do roles in Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil film industries. She was born on October 7th, 1982 to Prahladan and Padmini Naidu. Her family was settled in England where her father worked as a doctor. Manya and her younger sister, Meera were both brought up in the British state till Manya was nine years old. She later moved to South India where she completed her higher secondary education and graduation.

Manya was academically dazzling and pursued statistics and mathematics and graduated with a dual degree. Later on, she majored in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Columbia. At a very young age, Manya had decided to get into modeling. She was 14 years old when she had started doing modeling. She made her entry into cinema in the year 1999 in a Telugu film titled ‘Devaa’. In 2000, she won the Ballem Venumadhav Award for Best Debut Actress for her role in ‘Devaa’.

She was quickly recognized by many filmmakers in South India and had a lot on her plate. She made many appearances in different South Indian films. She had appeared in over forty films a few years after her debut. In the year 2000, ace Malayalam film maker Lohithadas had cast her as the lead in his film ‘Joker’ opposite to Malayalam cinema industry’s popular movie star Dileep. This movie had raised Manya’s level of popularity and gained her instant love and recognition among viewers.

Her role as ‘Kamala’ in ‘Joker’ won her the title of Best Actress of 2000 at the 24th Kerala Film Critics Award in 2001. She also won the Sun Feast Udaya Film Awards for Best Debut Actress in Kannada for her role in ‘Varsha’. Manya’s acting career came to a halt after she got married to Satya Patel, a Swiss Re-employ, in the year 2008.

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Manya is an Indian actress, who has acted in Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada movies. She began her professional career in modeling at the age of 14 and soon started acting. She has acted in more than 40 films in South Indian languages. Her educational background is quite strong with twofold graduation in maths and statistics, minoring in measurable economics and a degree of MBA from the prestigious “Columbia University”. Talk about beauty with brains! She was born to father, Prahladan, and mother, Padmini in the Naidu family of Andhra Pradesh. Her father was a doctor in England, and henceforth, Manya also grew up in England but moved to South India at the tender age of nine. Manya has a younger sister named, Meera.

This South Indian celebrity is married to Satya Patel. Manya began her acting career in Telugu cinema. In the year 2000, she was introduced to Malayalam films by the renowned director, Lohithadas and thus, she acted in “Joker” opposite actor, Dileep. Her work in this movie was quite successful, and eventually, this success became a ladder for her to more Malayalam films outside her mother tongue, Telugu. Some of the Kannada movies that she has done are namely, “Varsha”, “Shastri”, “Shambu”, “Belli Betta” etc. Some of the Malayalam projects that she has done are namely, “Kanal Kannadi”, “Rakshakan”, “Aparichithan”, “Kanmani”, “Shingari Bolona”, and much more. Some of the Telugu movies that cast her are, “College”, “Ganapathi”, “Sambiah”, “Tamasha”, “Sivana”, “Bachelors” and much more.  

Some of the Tamil movies are as follows: “Naina,” “Kusthi” and much more. Some of the awards under her belt are, namely, 24th Kerala Film Critics Award for Best Actress, Sun Feast Udaya Film Awards for Best Debut Actress, Drisya Television and Audio Awards for Best Actress (Special Jury) and of course, much more.