Published 13:56 IST, August 6th 2020

Malavika Mohanan was encouraged by THIS South celebrity to become an actor

Malavika Mohanan is a critically acclaimed Indian movie actor. But, did you know who encouraged her to take up acting and become an actor by profession?

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Malavika Mohanan is a critically acclaimed actor, who is majorly kwn for her work in Malayalam movie industry. actor has also appeared in Tamil, Kanna, and Hindi langu movies. actor has spent over seven years in acting industry and has come a long way, successfully creating a huge fan-base for herself. But did you kw who encourd Malavika Mohanan to take up acting and become an actor by profession? Re ahe to kw.

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How Malavika Mohanan got into acting

Malavika Mohanan is daughter of popular South cinematographer, K. U. Mohanan. actor hails from Payyanur, Kerela but was brought up in Mumbai. She completed her gruation and successfully got a degree in Bachelors of Mass Media from Wilson College, Mumbai. Since her gruation, actor was hoping to join her far as a cinematographer or work towards becoming a director.

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While she was contemplating about taking up higher studies, Malavika h once accompanied her far to an vertisement shoot for a branded fairness cream. vertisement featured evergreen South actor, Mammootty. As Mammootty got to kw about Malavika Mohanan’s interest in becoming an actor, he encourd her to join industry and offered Malavika a role opposite his son, Dulquer Salmaan, in an upcoming Malayalam movie. Malavika Mohanan took some time to consider offer and eventually passed audition to make her debut as an actor in Pattam Pole (2013).

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Pattam Pole is a Malayalam langu, romantic drama movie. Directed by debutant director, Alagappan N.  movie's cast includes Malavika Mohanan, Dulquer Salmaan,  Archana Kavi, Aop Men, Lalu Alex, Jayaprakash, Seetha, Leema Babu, Shrdha Gokul, Nandhu, and Ilavarasu as le characters. plot of film revolves around love story of a Brahim boy, Karthik, and a Christian girl, Riya. movie depicts how two characters make things work despite being completely opposite by nature. movie received mixed reviews and did aver at box-office.  

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This was start of Malavika Mohanan's acting career and she never looked back since. She went ahe to play le characters in many movies in different langus. Fans have erly been waiting for her upcoming movie, Master, that is a Lokesh Ranagaraj's directorial. movie was set to release in mid-2020 but got postponed due to global pandemic. furr date for its release has officially been anunced yet.    

13:56 IST, August 6th 2020