Kruthika Jayakumar is an Indian actress and
classical dancer. She appears in
South India films.Kruthika has worked in popular movies like Kavacha, Intlo Deyyam Nakem Bayam. Kruthika's previous film to hit the theatres was Kavacha in the year 201
Career
Kruthika Jayakumar hails from a Tamil speaking family in Bengaluru, Karnataka .Kruthika started practicing
Bharatanatyam
Bharatanatyam () is a major form of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the eight widely recognized Indian classical dance forms, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of S ...
from age seven. She trained under Sri Mithun Shyam in
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
. She was performing at a show in
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...
when
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...
film director
Balu Kiriyath
Balu Kiriyath is an Indian Malayalam film lyricist, screenwriter and director.
Early life
He was born on 29 November 1954 in aluva as son of RS Pillai
and CP Malathy Amma. He was the first district President of ksc(trivandrum) and general se ...
spotted her and convinced her to foray into cinema. She later auditioned and was selected for the role of
Venkatesh Daggubati
Daggubati Venkatesh (born 13 December 1960) is an Indian actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few hindi films. Venkatesh debuted with the 1986 film ''Kaliyuga Pandavulu'' for which he won his first Nandi Award. In a ca ...
's daughter in ''
Drushyam
''Drushyam'' () is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film directed by Sripriya and jointly produced by D. Suresh Babu and Rajkumar Sethupathi. It is a remake of Jeethu Joseph 2013 Malayalam film ''Drishyam'' and features Venkatesh, ...
'', a
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
remake of Malayalam film ''
Drishyam
''Drishyam'' () is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph. It stars Mohanlal and Meena, with Ansiba Hassan, Esther Anil, Kalabhavan Shajohn, Asha Sharath, Siddique, Roshan Basheer and Neera ...
''.
Filmography
References
External links
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Living people
Actresses from Bangalore
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Kannada cinema
21st-century Indian actresses
Bharatanatyam exponents
Indian female classical dancers
Performers of Indian classical dance
Dancers from Karnataka
Women artists from Karnataka
21st-century Indian dancers
21st-century Indian women artists
Actresses in Tamil cinema
1997 births