Anaswara Kumar

Anaswara Kumar
Born Anaswara Kumar
1 January 1994
Chennai
Nationality  Indian
Ethnicity Indian
Occupation Actress
Years active 2011–present

Anaswara Kumar (Tamil: அனஸ்வரா குமார்) is an Indian film actress, who works in the Tamil film industry. She started her career with Arivazhaghan's sports thriller Vallinam (2014), though the romantic comedy Ego (2013) released first. She made her breakthrough portraying Mohini in the black comedy film Yaamirukka Bayamey, which became a commercial success.[1][2]

Early life

Anaswara was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and her mother tongue is Malayalam. She did her schooling from Jawahar Vidyalaya and at A.V.Meiyappan Matriculation Higher Secondary School. She then went on to graduate in Corporate Economics from Women's Christian College, Chennai.

Career

Anaswara started her career with a supporting role in Arivazhaghan's sports thriller Vallinam (2014) after being selected from forty girls in an audition, which she had attended after being spotted at a Chennai Super Kings fans video shoot. However, her first leading role came through the romantic comedy Ego (2013) featuring newcomers. The film gained poor reviews and had a low profile release at the box office.[3][4]

She made her breakthrough portraying Mohini in the black comedy film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), which became a commercial success. Anaswara had met the director Deekay through Balaji, who had also appeared in the film, and was selected after convincing Deekay that she could convincing portray a haunted character. During production, Anaswara's make-up in her ghost avatar took up to four hours to apply, while she revealed that she got into character by "standing alone in the haunted room to imbibe the ghostly feelings".[5] The actors in the film won positive reviews, with Rediff.com noting "the lead actors have performed admirably; there is a touch of eccentricity and wackiness to all the characters that adds to the ambience of the film."[6][7] [8] She then went on to reprise her role in Yaamirukka Bayamey's Kannada remake Namo Boothatma(2014).It turned out to be a commercial success there also.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2013 Ego Gomathi
2014 Vallinam Anu
Yaamirukka Bayamey Mohini SuperHit
Namo Boothatma Mohini SuperHit

References

http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31807&articlexml=GAME-FOR-THE-UGLY-LOOK-01022015101036

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