Bhavana

Bhavana
Bhavana in 2008
Born	Karthika Menon[1] (1986-06-06) 6 June 1986 (age 34)[2] Thrissur, Kerala, India
Occupation	Actress dancer
Years active	2002–present
Spouse(s)	Naveen (m. 2018)

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Karthika Menon (born 6 June 1986), better known by her stage name Bhavana, is a film actress from Kerala, who works in South Indian film industry. She has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu language films, and has established herself as a bankable lead actress. Bhavana made her acting debut in the Malayalam film Nammal in 2002, for which she won the Kerala State Film Award – Special Mention. In a career spanning over a decade, she has appeared in over 80 films and has won two Kerala State Film Awards.

Early life

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. She studied at Holy Family Girls' High School, Chembukkavu, 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. 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.

Career

At age 16, she debuted in the Malayalam film Nammal taking the stage name Bhavana (Malayalam ഭാവന "enlightenment, imagination") opposite newcomers Sidharth Bharathan, Jishnu and Renuka Menon. The film was a big success and she got several offers in Malayalam. She won many honors and a Kerala State Special Jury Award for the film. Bhavana was an 11th Standard student when she got her break in the film. .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. Bhavana was said to star with Emraan Hashmi and Amitabh Bachchan in a Bollywood film. Her second Kannada film Vishnuvardhana with Sudeep opened to a big response. She appeared in the Malayalam films Ozhimuri and Trivandrum Lodge in 2012, and Honey Bee 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.In 2016, she starred in a film with Benedic Doray. Recent films of Bhavana include Swapnathekaal Sundaram and Adventures of Omanakuttan.

Filmography

Years	No	Title	Role	Language	Notes
2002	1	Nammal	Parimalam	Malayalam
2003	2	Chronic Bachelor	Sandhya
	3	C.I.D. Moosa	Meena
	4	Swapnakoodu	Padma
	5	Ivar	Nandhini
	6	Valathottu Thirinjal Nalamathe Veedu	Sangeetha Varma
2004	7	Parayam	Sudha
	8	Chathikkatha Chanthu	Indira
	9	Youth Festival	Parvathy
	10	Amrutham	Mridula
2005	11	Bunglavil Outha	Aswathy
	12	Hridayathil Sookshikkan	Amritha
	13	Police	Sethulakshmi
	14	Daivanamathil	Sameera
	15	Chanthupottu	Rose
	16	Naran	Leela
	17	Bus Conductor	Sugandhi
	18	Udayananu Tharam	Gayathri
2006	19	Chithiram Pesuthadi	Charumathi (Charu)	Tamil	Tamil debut
	20	Chinthamani Kolacase	Chinthamani Warrier	Malayalam
	21	Kisan	Kilimathi
	22	Chess	Dr. Radhika
	23	Kizhakku Kadalkarai Salai	Priya	Tamil
	24	Veyil	Meenakshi
2007	25	Deepavali	Susi
	26	Koodal Nagar	Manimekalai
	27	Chotta Mumbai	'Parakkum' Latha	Malayalam
	28	Aarya	Deepika	Tamil
	29	Rameswaram	Vasanthi
2008	30	Vaazhthugal	Kayalvizhi Thirunavukkarasu
	31	Ontari	Bujji	Telugu	Telugu debut
	32	Jayamkondaan	Annapurani	Tamil
	33	Hero	Krishnaveni	Telugu
	34	Twenty:20	Ashwathy Nambiar	Malayalam
	35	Lollipop	Rosebella
2009	36	Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded	Aarathi Menon
	37	Winter	Shyama Ramdas
	38	Robin Hood	Rupa
	39	Mahatma	Krishnaveni	Telugu
2010	40	Happy Husbands	Krishnendu Mukundhan	Malayalam
	41	Aasal	Sulabha Pillai	Tamil
	42	Jackie	Lakshmi	Kannada	Kannada debut
	43	Marykkundoru Kunjaadu	Mary Ittichan	Malayalam
2011	44	Kudumbasree Travels	Aswathy
	45	The Metro	Anupama
	46	Doctor Love	Ebin
	47	Vishnuvardhana	Bharathi	Kannada
	48	Oru Marubhoomikkadha	Eliana	Malayalam
2012	49	Romeo	Shruti	Kannada
	50	Ozhimuri	Balamani	Malayalam
	51	Trivandrum Lodge	Malavika
	52	Yaare Koogadali	Bharathi	Kannada
2013	53	Topiwala	Suman Bedi
	54	Bachchan	Dr. Ashwini
	55	Honey Bee	Angel	Malayalam
	56	Ezhamathe Varavu	Bhanu
2014	57	Polytechnic	Ashwathi Nair
	58	Koothara	Swathy
	59	Angry Babies in Love	Sarah
2015	60	Ivide	Roshni Mathew
	–	Open Your Mind	Sandhya		Short film
2016	61	Hello Namasthe	Priya
	62	Kuttikalundu Sookshikkuka	Shahida Gautham
2017	63	Chowka	Bhoomika	Kannada
	64	Honey Bee 2: Celebrations	Angel	Malayalam
	65	Adventures of Omanakuttan	Pallavi
	66	Vilakkumaram	Aswathy Ananthakrishnan
	67	Adam Joan	Shwetha
2018	68	Tagaru	Panchami	Kannada
2019	69	99	Janaki Devi ( Jaanu)
2020		Inspector Vikram	TBA		Post Production [29]
		Bhajarangi 2	TBA		Filming[30]
		Govinda Govinda	TBA		Filming[31]

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