Sindhu Menon
Sindhu Menon is an Indian actress, who has starred in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films. Early life. Sindhu Menon was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India into a Malayali family. She has an elder brother, Karthik, who worked as a Kannada music channel VJ and turned actor, recently. And also two elder sisters. Sindhu Menon is able to communicate fluently in several languages, including Malayalam, her mother tongue, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English. She was also brought up in her birthplace, Bangalore. Career. Sindhu Menon, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer from her childhood, got her entry into the  film industry when Bhasker Hegde, one of the judges of a Bharatanatyam competition in which Menon participated and emerged as the first place winner, introduced her to Kannada film director K. V. Jayaram, who cast her in his film "Rashmi" in 1994. Subsequently, she got several offers to act and became a full-time actress, by enacting the female lead role character in the 1999 film "Prema Prema Prema", when she was merely 13 years old. Later, at the age of 15, she entered the Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil film industries as well, by acting in the films "Bhadrachalam", "Uthaman  and Samuthiram", respectively. She went on to act alongside Kannada Star Sudeep in Nandi (2002), Bharathiraja's "Kadal Pookkal" (2002), "Trinetram" (2002), "Khushi" (2003) and got the female lead role in the 2006 Malayalam film "Pulijanmam", which was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 2007. Menon then moved to the "small screen", hosting TV shows and acting in serials, which include "Sriman Srimathi" and "Stree Hrudayam", before accepting film offers again. In 2009, she appeared in the Malayalam films, "Bharya Onnu Makkal Moonnu", and "Rahasya Police". She also acted in the Tamil film "Eeram", produced by  popular Tamil director S. Shankar. She hosted a popular family reality show in Malayalam named,"Sriman Srimathi". Personal life. Sindhu Menon married Prabhu, a Tamil Nadu information technology professional on 25 April 2003 .. The couple have a daughter and two sons.