P. Shweta (born in

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

) is a Tamil

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. She debuted in the critically acclaimed film '' Malli'' (1998), directed by

Santosh Sivan Santosh Sivan ISC (born 8 February 1964) is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and has, to ...

, playing the young girl Malli, on an adventure to find a blue wishing stone to help cure her best friend's ailments. She won the

National Film Award The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ...

for Best Child Artist in 1999 for her performance in the film. She went on to win another

for Best Child Artist in 2002 for her role in the film '' Kutty''. She most recently starred in the Santosh Sivan film ''

Navarasa Indian art evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with representing them symbolically. Rasas in the performing arts The theory of rasas still forms the aesthetic underpinning of a ...

''. She did her college in Anna University, Chennai. Spouse : Rishi Narayan (from Thirissur, Kerala)

Filmography

Awards

International Awards 18th International Festival of Films For Children Ale Kino, (

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, 15–20 May 2000) * Poznan Goats for the Best Child - actress National Awards 1999

National Film Award for Best Child Artist The National Film Award for Best Child Artist is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Raj ...

Malli 2002

''Kutty'' (2001 film)

References

External links

* Living people Indian film actresses Indian child actresses Actresses in Tamil cinema Child actresses in Tamil cinema Best Child Artist National Film Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-film-actor-stub