Aishwarya Devan

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Aishwarya Devan
Aishwarya Devan graces the launch of the new resto-bar Angrezi Patiyaala (10) (cropped).jpg
Devan in 2018
Born
Shornur, Palakkad, Kerala
NationalityIndian
OccupationActress
Years active2011–present
Title Femina Miss India Maharashtra 2017 (Winner) Femina Miss India 2017 (Top 6)

Aishwarya Devan is an Indian actress and Beauty queen from Kerala state who has acted in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada language films. [1] She was crowned Femina Miss India Maharashtra 2017 and represented Maharashtra state in Femina Miss India 2017. [2] She won various subtitles during the contest [3] and made it to top-6 finalists. [4] She made her Hindi film debut with the film Kaashi in Search of Ganga . [5]

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Early life

Aishwarya was born to Malayalee parents in Bangalore to S. Devan, and Sheeja Devan who is from Shornur, Palakkad district, Kerala. [1]

Career

She debuted in a Tamil movie 'Yuvan' with Siddharth Rajkumar and Rakul Preet Singh. [6] Then in Malayalam, Deepan introduced her to Shaji Kailas who cast her in his film Simhasanam opposite Prudhviraj Sukumaran. She played a Bangalore-based girl who, after her Plus Two, enters college in both her films. [1] Yuvan was her first Tamil film and Simhasanam was her first Malayalam film. [7]

After Simhasanam, she acted in Bala's The Hitlist and Major Ravi’s Karmayodha . [8]

In 2013, she received the lead role In V. K. Prakash's Thank You . In the early 2014 she signed up for the Tamil film Anegan directed by K.V. Anand as the second lead opposite Dhanush which released in the early 2015 and was a blockbuster, which also released as Anekudu in Telugu.

Filmography

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
2011 Keratam Geetha Telugu credited as Aishwarya
2011 Yuvan Meena Tamil
2012 Simhasanam Nanda Malayalam
2012 The Hitlist AvanthikaMalayalam
2012 Karmayodha Kidnapped girlMalayalam
2012 Chennaiyil Oru Naal Jennifer Mary TonyTamil
2013 Thank You ShruthiMalayalam
2013 Jai Lalitha Lalitha Kannada [9]
2014Sreenivasan Paranja KadhaMalayalam
2015 Anegan Meera & MallikaTamil
2018 Kashi - in search of ganga Devina Hindi [10]

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