Malayalam actresses in hot avatars - Pictures

Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 19:04 [IST]

The Malayalam film industry is filled with beauties who scorch the screen with their good looks, great looking, well toned body and innate acting skills.

Gone are the days when actresses shied away from appearing in revealing clothes and looking hot onscreen. Today, heroinesin the Malayalam film industry are bold and absolutely comfortable in their skin. Actresses like Padmapriya, Navya Nair, Nayanthara, Shweta Menon and Rima Kallingal among many others not only look and act well, but are also ready to glamorous and bold roles in films.

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Bhavana

Karthika Menon (born 6 June 1986) aka Bhavana made her acting debut in Kamal's Nammal (2002), which won her critical acclaim and various honors.

Geetu Mohandas

Geetu Mohandas (born: 1981) started off as a child artist and did mainstream roles later. She has acted in several other Malayalam films.

Gopika

Gopika (born 26 August 1982 as Girly Anto) starred in Malayalam films. On 17 July 2008, Gopika married Ajilesh Chacko, a doctor working in Northern Ireland. She has come back to the cinema industry after marriage, acting in the movie Swantham Lekhakan and says that she will continue to act in more films if she gets good opportunities and likes the script.

Jyothirmayi

Jyothirmayi was married to Nishanth Kumar, on September 6, 2004. The couple filed for divorce, and it was granted on October 1, 2011.

Kavya Madhavan

Kavya Madhavan, who was married to Nischal Chandra on February 5, 2009 went to Kuwait to stay with her husband. However, she returned home in June the same year and did not go back thereafter. Kavya Madhavan and Nischal was granted divorce by court on May 30, 2011.

Lakshmi Rai

Lakshmi Rai's most notable works in Malayalam-language films have been in Annan Thambi (2008), Harihar Nagar (2009), Chattambinadu (2009), Evidam Swargamanu (2009) and Oru Marubhoomikkadha (2011), thus establishing herself in the Malayalam film industry.

Mamta Mohandas

Mamta Mohandas is a cancer survivor. She battled Hodgkin's lymphoma and had to cut her hair off for chemotherapy sessions. Mamta got married to Prajith Padmanabhan, a Bahrain based businessman, also her childhood friend on December 28, 2011 at Kozhikode. On December 12, 2012, the couple applied for a divorce.

Meera Jasmine

Meera Jasmine won the National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 and is a two time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award, the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, as well as the Kalaimamani Award from the government of Tamil Nadu.

Navya Nair

Dhanya Nair, (born 1985), better known by her stage name Navya Nair is two time recipient of Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress and Kalaimamani award.

Nayanthara

Nayantara (born as Diana Mariam Kurian) made her acting debut in the 2003 Malayalam film Manassinakkare and followed with the successful Vismayathumbathu (2004) before foraying into Tamil and Telugu cinema.

Nithya Das

Nithya Das got married to Arvind Singh on the 17th of June 2007, in Guruvayoor. She met him in 2005 when she was traveling to Chennai by Indian Airlines flight and Arvind was a member of the flight crew.

Padmapriya

Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu-language film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2003), following which she appeared in a number of Malayalam and Tamil-language films alongside leading actors.

Remya Nambeesan

Remya Nambeesan made her career debut in 2000 with Sayahnam. Following performances as a child artiste in several Malayalam films during the early 2000s, she went on to play minor supporting roles, before essaying starring roles since 2006

Rima Kallingal

After being named First Runner Up in the Miss Kerala 2008 contest, she went to pursue a career in acting. She made her film debut in 2009 through the film Ritu, later appeared in Neelathaamara (2009) and continues to work in Malayalam films.

Samvrutha Sunil

Samvrutha Sunil married Akhil Jayaraj on November 1, 2012 at Kannur. Akhil is a software engineer from Kozhikode, who works in the United States. Even though the ceremony was in November 2012, their wedding registration took place in January 2012.This was done so that she would get a visa to settle in the US by the time their wedding ceremony took place.