Dhanya Nair (born 1985 better known by
her stage name Navya Nair, is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam, Tamil,
and Kannada films. She is well established in Malayalam. She is two time
recipient of Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress and Kalaimamani
award.Navya Nair comes from Cheppad, a village in Alleppey District, and is the
daughter of Raju and Veena. The film director K. Madhu is her uncle. She
studied at MSM Higher Secondary School, where her mother was a teacher, and then
obtained a BA in English and is an MBA graduate. She married Mumbai-based
businessman, Santhosh Menon, on January 21, 2010 and they have a son Sai
Krishna, born on November 22, 2010.She was still at school when offered her
first film role, starring opposite Dileep in Ishtam in 2001. There followed
roles in partnership with Dileep, in films such as Mazhathullikkilukkam,
Kunjikoonan, Kalyanaraman, Pandippada, Gramaphone and Pattanathil Sundaran.The
most popular character of Navya is that of 'Balamani' in Nandanam. She won the
Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress in 2002 for the same. She has been
paired with Mohanlal, Mammooty, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, Dileep, Prithviraj
Sukumaran, and Jayasurya.She is attracted to offbeat movies, such as Saira and
Kanne Madanguka. Saira was the opening film in the section Tous Les Cinemas Du
Monde at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2007, which was the 4th
Malayalam film screened at the Cannes International Film Festival. Saira has
participated in 21 other international film festivals like USA, Brazil, Israel,
Russia, Italy, Greece, Zimbabwe, Belgium, Bangladesh etc. She won the state
award again in 2005 for her performance in Kanne Madanguka and Saira.Her debut
in Tamil cinema came with Azhagiya Theeye and her first role in Kannada cinema
was in Gaja but the most notable one was the 2009 Tamil movie Aadum Koothu,
which won the National Award for the best Tamil film. The T.V.Chandran film
revolved around a character called Manimekala played by Navya Nair. She was considered
for the National award for Best Actress, which happened for the third time, the
first two times being in 2002 for Nandanam and in 2005 for Saira. She has
around 50 movies to her credit. After marriage, she came back to film through
'Scene Onnu Nammaveedu
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