Actress
Kanika,
made
her
foray
into
filmdom
during
her
under-graduation
and
became
a
full-time
actress
after
completing
her
engineering
at
BITS
Pilani.
The
former
Miss
Chennai
has
acted
in
Tamil,
Telugu,
Kannada
and
Malayalam
movies.
She
made
her
entry
into
Malayalam
cine
world
with
the
campus-based
flick,
Ennitum.
She
is
now
playing
the
role
of
a
queen
named
Kaitheri
Makkom
in
the
magnum
opus,
Pazhassi
Raja,
starring
Mammootty
in
the
lead.
Director
Hariharan
took
some
time
to
give
her
the
role.
Reportedly,
she
showed
him
the
CD
of
her
Tamil
film,
Varalaru,
in
which
she
dresses
like
a
queen
in
a
song
sequence
to
convince
him
for
her
suitability
for
the
role.
Padmapriya
and
Linda
Arseino
play
the
other
female
leads
in
the
film
scripted
by
veteran
writer
M.T.
Vasudevan
Nair.