Manjima Mohan


Manjima Mohan is an Indian film actress, who primarily appears in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu productions. She started her career as a child artist in late 1990's and early 2000's Malayalam films. Her first Malayalam film as a heroine in Oru Vadakkan Selfie with Nivin Pauly and second film in Tamil Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada, she received Best Female Debut at 64th Filmfare Awards South 2017.

Personal life

Manjima Mohan is the daughter of cinematographer Vipin Mohan and dancer Kalamandalam Girija. After completing her schooling at Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, she pursued a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Stella Maris College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Film career

Mohan was a leading child artist in Malayalam film industry in early 2000s later she also hosted a television call-in show for kids by the name ‘Hai Kids’ on Surya TV for three years which rose her fame among Malayali audience.
Despite having had acting experience, she said that she was "not at all confident" when she started shooting for the film and that the initial days were "terrifying". Oru Vadakkan Selfie, which was directed by G. Prajith and scripted by Vineeth Sreenivasan, featured Manjima Mohan as the female lead.
Upon the release of Oru Vadakkan Selfie, Mohan landed her first Tamil film, Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada. Its director Gautham Menon, who was impressed with her work in Oru Vadakkan Selfie, cast Manjima as the female lead, after she had gone through an audition.
In 2017 she had two Tamil films, one opposite to Udhayanidhi Stalin and the other Sathriyan opposite to Vikram Prabhu. In 2019, she made her come back to Malayalam with Mikhael opposite to Nivin Pauly for the second time. She has replaced Amala Paul in Zam Zam, official remake of Queen. She also has a few Tamil films in her kitty.In 2020,Upcoming movie Tughlaq Dubar with Vijay Sethupathi,Nikki Galrani and Manjima Mohan combo

Filmography

Awards and nominations