Kanika Subramaniam
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Divya Venkat Subramanian (born 3 July) is a South Indian actress. Her screen names include Kanika ( Tamil and Malayalam ) and Shravanthi ( Telugu and Kannada ). She completed her engineering degree at BITS Pilani few months after she finished shooting 5 star. Her list of Tamil films include 5 star produced by Mani Rathnam Varalaru - History of Godfather directed by K.S.Ravikumar and Autograph produced and directed by Cheran. She has also acted in Ottessi Chepputanna "Naa Autograph" in Telugu "Ennitum" in Malayalam and Annavaru "SI" in Kannada.
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[edit] Profile
Kanika was born as the second daughter to the engineers Mr. and Mrs. Venkat Subramanian on 3 July 1982 and grew up in typical Tamil brahmin traditions at the hot suburbs of Madurai. A born brainiac and virtous vocalist, Kanika was always a bundle of energy and joy. She was a treasured student at the reputed TVS Lakshmi Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madurai and hogged into limelight for grabbing the TN State Award for Educational Excellence in 1999. She pursued Bachelors in Engineering from the world renowned BITS, Pilani. A blend of beauty and brain.
[edit] Career
Kanika was also making waves as a beauty peagant. She was crowned Miss Madurai in 1999 and she later emerged as 2nd runner-up in Miss Chennai in 2001. Still she was the cynosure of all eyes during the competition and attracted director Susi Ganesan so much that he was so insistent on her performing the lead role in his dream movie Five Star.
Kanika knew her priorities very well and shunned all the offers to complete her graduation. The fact she rejected offers from people like Shankar, P.C. Sreeram, Cheran to pursue her studies raised the eyebrows of even the unshakeable. Despite all these activities, Kanika’s academic records stood admirable and astounding.
After meritoriously completing her engineering, Kanika decided to give herself a go at the Tinsel towns. She signed up for a challenging role playing opposite to a physically challenged person in the film Dancer. She also gave a good account of herself in the Kannada picture Annavaru, a remake of Tamil mega hit Dhalapathi. She gracefully played a small and neat role in the film Autograph and earned the claps of the critics. To prove her versatility with all genres of cinema, Kanika gave a stunning performance in the commercial comedy Aethiree. When no heroine was willing to pair with the one legged wonder hero Kutty for the film "Dancer", Kanika gladly accepted the offer and did a neat job. She accepted to redo her own part in the movie "Autograph" for its telugu version "Naa Autograph". She proved to be an actress to reckon with in the movie "SI", a remake of Tamil movie "Dhill". She also ventured into Malayalam movies as the heroine for the campus based movie Ennitum. She is now cast opposite Ajith in a pivotal role for the upcoming film Varalaru.
Normally actresses move over to TV serials and game shows in the twilight of their career. However Kanika even at the prime of her career hosts a couple of TV shows, which she believes is a refreshing change from movies. She had done a comedy show "Kalakka Povathu Yaaru" for STAR VIJAY and now hosts the much viewed family based knowledge game show "Mega Thanga Vettai" for [SUN TV]
[edit] Filmography
- Varalaru (2006)
- Ennitum (2006)
- Sye (2006)
- Naa Autograph (2005)
- Dancer (2005)
- Autograph (2004)
- Aethiree (2004)
- Annavaru (2004)
- Ottessi Chepputanna (2003)
- 5 star (debut)(2002)
