Namitha Pramod

Namitha Pramod
Namita Pramod 1
Born	(1996-09-19) 19 September 1996[1][2] Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Education	Carmel Girls Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanathapuram
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2011–present
Parent(s)	Pramod (father), Indu (mother)

Namitha Pramod (born 19 September 1996^[1][2]) is an Indian film actress, who appears in Malayalam films.^[3] She made her acting debut in the Malayalam film Traffic.^[4]

Early life and education

Namitha Pramod was born on 19 September 1996 in Thiruvananthapuram as the daughter of Pramod, a businessman and Indu, a housewife.^[5] Namitha is currently settled at Kochi. She has a younger sister Akhita Pramod.^[6] She did her schooling at Carmel Girls Higher Secondary School in Thiruvanathapuram.^[7] She was enrolled at the St. Teresa's College to pursue a BA degree in Sociology in June 2014.^[8] She has stated that she was "not going to let [her] acting career compromise [her] studies".^[9]

Career

Namitha started acting when she was in seventh standard by taking on roles in serials such as Vellankanni Mathavu where she played the role of Mathavu, Amme Devi where she played the role of Devi and Ente Manasa Puthri where she played Anjali.^[10][11] She made her debut in films when she acted as Riya, the dying daughter of Rahman and Lena, in Rajesh Pillai's critically acclaimed Traffic.^[10] In her next film Puthiya Theerangal she played her first lead role, playing a fisherwoman, opposite Nivin Pauly.^[7] It was followed by more lead roles in Sound Thoma with Dileep and Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum with Kunchacko Boban in which she played a Mohiniyattam dancer.^[12] She was not trained in Mohiniyattam and learned the dance steps in Saranya Mohan's dance school in Alappuzha for four days.^[5] Both films were successes and she was selected as Top Star (Female) 2013 in Malayalam.^[13]

In 2014, she was first seen in En Kadhal Pudhithu, her debut Tamil film directed by Maaris Kumar which had a delayed release,^[14] followed by Lijin Jose's Law Point in which she played a modern, city bred girl named Maya.^[15][16] In Lal Jose's Vikramadithyan, she played the role of Deepika, a Konkani girl, which required her to speak a few lines in Konkani, a language she had never used before. Her next film Villali Veeran, in which she paired once again with Dileep, had her playing the role of an ad filmmaker.^[17] Her last release in 2014 was Ormayundo Ee Mukham, a romantic drama in which she was cast opposite Vineeth Sreenivasan. Her upcoming film is Jamuna Pyaari, a romantic comedy in which she is cast opposite to Kunchacko Boban.^[18]

She has acted in many commercials of Bhima Jewellers, Francis Alukkas and Ripple Tea. She has participated in the popular reality show Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran on Asianet.

Filmography

Television serials

Awards

References

External links

• Namitha Pramod at the Internet Movie Database