Nayantara

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Nayantara alias Diana
Born	November 8 1984 (1984-11-08) (age 23) Tiruvalla, Kerala, India
Occupation	Actress
Salary	touched 1 crore
Website	http://nayanthara.sifymax.com/home/

Diana Mariam Kurien born in 1984 in Kerala, India), popularly known as Nayanthara ^[1] (Tamil : நயநதாரா),meaning "Eyes like Stars", is a south Indian actress and has acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. Nayantara has completed her BA Literature. She got an offer to act in a Malayalam film "Manasinakkare" directed by Sathyan Anthikkad in which she paired opposite to Jayaram. The film was a great hit in Kerala. This paved the way for her entry into Tamil Cinema. She is a self confident person and is always found calm. Her hobbies are reading books and listening to music. Her favorite color is Black. She loves North Indian and Chinese cuisines. She is comfortable working with all the heroes and fully involves herself in whatever role she does and this obviously is the reason for her success in the field.

Career

She was born on 8th November 1984 as an Orthodox Syrian Christian in Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala. She did schooling from North India (Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Punjab and Karnataka)as her father was an Air Force Official. She joined Balikamadom High School, Thiruvalla for +2, then joined Marthoma college in Thiruvalla for her bachelors degree (English Literature). She became interested in acting after getting good exposure from college. She admits herself that the encouragement her friend Mahesh Kadammanitta gave, helped her a lot to improve. While at college, she was chosen by director Satyan Anthikkad and was cast opposite Jayaram in Mansinakkare. After that, she played a ghost who falls in love with the hero Mohanlal in Fazil's Vismayathumbathu. She played opposite Sarath Kumar in Ayya. She acted with Rajnikanth in Chandramukhi. Her later films are Natturaajavu (Malayalam), Thaskaraveeran(Malayalam), Vallavan (Tamil), Gajini(Tamil), Yogi (Telugu) etc... She is now busy in Tamil & Telugu film industry.

Controversies

Nayantara easily created headlines when her scandalous poster with co-star (then boyfriend) Simbu (Silambarasan) was splashed across South India. It showed them in a supposedly lip-lock,the couple were open to media about their relationship, after a brief relationship period of one year the couple spilt up with a huge media hype.

Filmography

External links

• Nayantara's Official Website
• Nayantara - Official Fan Site
• Nayantara - Photo Gallery
• Nayantara at the Internet Movie Database
• HUGE GALLERIES OF NAYANTHARA

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