Anjana Jayaprakash is an Indian actress, who has appeared in

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and

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language films. She had acted in several short films in lead roles and a few supporting roles in feature films, before making her breakthrough appearing in the blockbuster Tamil film ''

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'' (2016) in one of the pivotal roles.

Career

Anjana was born in

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, United Arab Emirates. She completed her school education there and moved to

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, India to pursue her engineering degree in B.Tech. Fashion Technology in

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, Coimbatore. In college, she was senior to Director ''Karthick Naren'', who later directed

. During college, she started modelling for college fashion shows and designer events. She also started acting in short films made in her college. One notable short film was ''Muse'', directed by her college junior Kannan RK. She portrayed the role of ''Mythili'', a sex worker who aspires to become an Actress and eventually ends up being a best selling author of a Novel. This short film fetched Awards in so many Film festivals around the country. The short film was even nominated for the

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. After all these overwhelming accolades, she finally decided to pursue Acting as a Full-time profession. She made her debut in feature films with a minor role as a reporter in

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's 2015 Malayalam

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named ''

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''. But she got various offers in modelling and started appearing in many television advertisements. She acted in a music video ''Sun Le Zara'' and also took the helms of directing a music video ''Rimjhim gire sawan'' by the artist ''Simran Sehgal''. She finally made her breakthrough with the blockbuster film ''

'', portraying ''Vaishnavi'', one of the pivotal characters in the film. The success of this film, made her noticeable, and an actress to look forward in the Tamil film industry.

Filmography

Films

Webseries

Short films

Music videos

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jayaprakash, Anjana Living people Actresses in Tamil cinema 21st-century Indian actresses Actresses from Kochi 1992 births Actresses in Malayalam cinema