Methil Devika

Methil Devika
Born 18 January 1976 (1976-01-18) (age 40)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Occupation Dancer
Spouse(s) Rajeev Nair (divorced)
Mukesh (m.2013-present)
Children Devang Rajeev
Parent(s) Rajagopal ,Rajeswari[1]

Methil Devika is a dance research scholar, educator, performer and choreographer who hails from Palakkad.

Biography

Devika was born to Rajagopal and Methil Rajeswari on 5 April 1977. Devika completed schooling from Dubai, pre-degree from Mercy College Palakkad and Degree in commerce from Government Victoria College Palakkad.In Government Victoria College She was the vice chairman of the college union in the academic year 1994-95.She was a candidate under the banner of CSU-Creative Students Union.Later she took Master in Business Administration from Madras University, and Masters Degree in Arts from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.[2] She has submitted PhD thesis to Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, 2013. She has also worked as lecturer in the Department of Post-graduate Studies(Mohiniyattam/Kathakali/Koodiyattam) and at the Research Department, Kerala Kalamandalam Deemed University, Kerala. Also worked as Course Counselor at the Department of International Students, Kerala Kalamandalam Deemed University. She is also active in Arts-in-Education and Arts-for-Specific Groups programs providing therapy through Arts for people with mental illnesses.

Devika is having two elder sisters Methil Radhika and Methil Renuka who works as a journalist. Renowned writer Methil Radhakrishnan is her mother's brother. Writer V. K. N.'s wife Vedavathi is her mother's sister.[1]

Devika married Rajeev Nair and they had settled in Bangalore. They have a son Devang.[3] She and Rajeev divorced soon after Devang's birth. After her divorce Devika relocated to Palakkad. Devika opened a Dance School by the name Sripada, in Ramanathapuram in Palakkad.

She married actor Mukesh on 24 October 2013. It was the second marriage for Mukesh, who was earlier married to actress Saritha.[4]

Awards

She won the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy Award for Mohiniyattam for the year 2010[5] and the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Award instituted by the Kendra Sangeetha Nataka Academy for the year 2007.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.mangalam.com/cinema/interviews/115129
  2. 1 2 "Bismillah Khan award for Methil Devika". The Hindu. 5 March 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  3. ↑ http://vinodadarsh.blogspot.com/2013/10/actor-mukesh-married-devika-photos-news.html
  4. ↑ Radhika C. Pillai (9 November 2013). "My marriage with Mukesh is an arranged one: Methil Devika". Times of India. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Sangeeta Nataka Akademi fellowships, awards announced". The Hindu. 5 February 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2014.

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