Kanika
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Kanika Biography
Kanika's birth name is Divya Venkatasubramaniam. She was born on 3 July 1982. Later on she adopted the stage name Kaniha. Divya was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India as the second daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Venkat Subramanian, both engineers. She grew up in a typical Tamil Brahmin household in the suburbs of Madurai. Kanika is very tall (5'9 feet)Indian actress, occasional dubbing artist, playback singer, and TV anchor. Making her debut in the 2002 Tamil film Five Star, she went on to work in other South Indian film industries, including Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, as well. She is perhaps best known for her performances as Eashwari in her debut film Five Star, Gayathri in Varalaru - History of Godfather and Thenmozhi in Autograph.
She studied at TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madurai. She then got admitted on merit to BITS ("Birla Institute of Technology and Science"), in Pilani, Rajasthan, from where she graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree.
While she was still studying, she gave stage performances as a pop singer from time to time. When she was supposed to perform at the Miss Chennai event, a beauty pageant contest, in 2001, she was asked and finally persuaded to participate at the contest because of her height, after a model had backed out. Her tall figure worked to her advantage Despite lack of experience, she emerged as the second runner-up at that contest, which would later pave her the way for a film career.
Kanika Marriage
On 15 June 2008, Kanika entered married life, by wedding Shyam Radhakrishnan, a US-based software engineer and brother of former actress Jaishree Chandrasekar. She, at first, decided to leave the film industry, finishing her career as an actress, and to settle down in the US, stating that she, however, would complete her hitherto signed movies. In January 2009 then, Kanika, unexpectedly, announced her comeback with the Sathyan Anthikkad-directed Malayalam film Bhagyadevatha.
Kanika Filmography
- Pazhassi Raja (2009, Malayalam - Cast: Mammootty, Sarath Kumar, Kanika, Padmapriya)