Bhavana (actress)

Bhavana was born as Karthika Menon on 6 June 1986 in Thrissur district, Kerala, as the daughter of Pushpa and assistant cinematographer G. Balachandran. She has an elder brother, Jayadev.[2][4] She did her schooling at Holy Family Convent Girls High School,Thrissur.

Bhavana has described herself as a restless person and someone who's "hard to handle". She grew up with a dream to become an actress.[5] As a five-year-old, she used to imitate actress Amala's scenes from the Malayalam film Ente Sooryaputhrikku in front of the mirror and was even willing to jump from a building and break her arm, like Amala's character, did in the film.[5]

At age 16,[5] she debuted in the Malayalam film Nammal taking the stage name Bhavana opposite newcomers Sidharth Bharathan, Jishnu and Renuka Menon.[6] The film was a big success and she got several offers in Malayalam.[7] She won many honors and a Kerala State Special Jury Award for the film.[8] Bhavana was an 11th Standard student when she got her break in the film.[9]

In 2010, she starred in her first Kannada film alongside Puneeth Rajkumar, Jackie which was a blockbuster. Following the film's huge success, the film was dubbed into Telugu and Malayalam.[10] Bhavana was said to star with Emraan Hashmi and Amitabh Bachchan in a Bollywood film.[11] Her second Kannada film Vishnuvardhana with Sudeep opened to a big response.[12] She appeared in the Malayalam films Ozhimuri[13] and Trivandrum Lodge in 2012,[14] and Honey Bee[15] and Ezhamathe Varavu in 2013. She played Roshni Mathew, a single mother employed in an IT company, in Shyamaprasad's Ivide, a crime thriller based on the serial killing of IT techies in major US cities.[16][17]

In 2016, she starred in a film with Benedic Doray. Recent films of Bhavana include Swapnathekaal Sundaram and Adventures of Omanakuttan.[18]

Bhavana married Kannada film producer Naveen on 22 January 2018.[19][20][21][22]

• Bhavana at IMDb

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