Manjima Mohan

Manjima Mohan
Born	(1993-03-11) 11 March 1993 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1998 – present
Notable work	Oru Vadakkan Selfie
Parent(s)	Vipin Mohan Kalamandalam Girija

Manjima Mohan is an Indian actress, hails from palakkad, predominantly working in Malayalam films. She started her career as a child actress in the late 2000s and early 2000s and won a Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist for her performance in Madhuranombarakattu. After taking a break from acting to focus on her studies, she made a comeback in the 2015 film Oru Vadakkan Selfie, starting to play lead roles.

Career

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

In 1998, Manjima made her acting debut as a child actress in Malayalam films. Her first role was in Kaliyoonjal in which she portrayed the younger version of Shobana's character Gauri. She continued to work as a child artist for three years in films including Priyam and Madhuranombarakattu, the latter earning her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist, besides hosting Hai Kids, a television call-in show for children. After Thandavam, she took a break from acting to concentrate on her education.

During her final year of college, she was approached with the script of Oru Vadakkan Selfie. Although she had not planned to relaunch her acting career, she accepted the offer after she had listened to and "fell in love with" the story and her character Daisy, who Manjima described as "poised, silent and a bookworm" and unlike her real life persona. 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. The film opened to positive reviews and became the first major box office hit in 2015.

Upon Oru Vadakkan Selfie's release, Manjima 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.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Language	Notes
1998	Kaliyoonjal	Younger Gauri	Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
1998	Mayilpeelikkavu	Gayathri's relative	Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
1999	Saaphalyam	Sreethumol	Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
2000	Priyam	Anu	Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
2000	Thenkasipattanam	Younger Devootty	Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
2000	Madhuranombarakattu	Maya	Malayalam	Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist
2001	Sundara Purushan	Suryanarayanan's daughter	Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
2002	Thandavam		Malayalam	As A Child Artiste
2015	Oru Vadakkan Selfie	Daisy George	Malayalam	Debut as Heroine
2015	Achcham Enbadhu Madamaiyada		Tamil	Filming
2015	Sahasam Swasaga Sagipo		Telugu	Filming

External links

• Manjima Mohan at the Internet Movie Database
• Manjima at the Internet Movie Database