Manasi Scott is an Indian singer, songwriter, and an actress. Manasi is best known for her live performances and for composing "Khatti Meethi" for Sanjay Gupta's '' Acid Factory''. In 2018, she played the female protagonist in

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's web series '' Baby Come Naa'' as Sophie opposite

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Early life

Manasi is known as a multi talented personality. She made national level recognition as a singer while she was studying in eighth standard. After obtaining a degree in mass communications from the St. Xavier College, she also did a course on TV and Film production. She kick-started her professional singing career with the popular

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rock band Dark Water Fixation, which also paved way to get her first break in Tamil composer Vidyasagar's '' Snehithiye''. The song was "Othaiyadi Pathaile" and the film directed by Priyadarshan turned out to a box office hit. Manasi also played an important supporting role in the film and her character's name was Nancy. ''Snehithiye'' is a movie noted for having only female characters in the leads. Manasi also acted in the Malayalam film ''

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'', it is the Malayalam version of the Tamil film ''Snegithiye''. In ''Raakilipattu'', she acted with her original name Manasi as

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's friend. Manasi is also a national

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player.

Career

Even before releasing her debut album, Manasi already became a national sensation with her live performances. Even though she had her debut album "Nachlae" in 2005, her first major break happened in 2009 with the

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film ''Acid Factory''. Manasi has composed and sung a song, "Khatti Meethi" for the film. She has also done a music video for the same number. The video was voted as No.2 video of 2009 by MSN users. Her other major works are "Peter Gaya Kaam Se ", "Pappu Can't Dance"," The Fox"," Loot", "Tom Dick and Harry Rocks Again", "

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" etc. Along with her singing career, Manasi has also acted in a couple of popular film which includes ''

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'', ''

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'' etc. She was also the anchor of many leading shows, which include ''Perfect 10'' on Sony Pix, ''Glamorous'' on Zoom and ''E Buzz'' on AXN. She was the major judge in ''Cornetto Anchor Hunt'' on Zing/ETC. Manasi Scott is the first Indian singer to have graced the coveted cover of

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. She is also the first Indian singer to be a brand ambassador, model and host for brands such as

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Notable discography

*Okkadu Chalu (2000) *

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(2000) *

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(2000) *

(2007) *

(2008) *

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(2009) * Tom, Dick, and Harry: Rock Again... (2009) * Acid Factory (2009) *

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(2010) * Loot (2011) *

Pappu Can't Dance Saala ''Pappu Can't Dance Saala'' is a 2011 Indian romantic comedy film written and directed by Saurabh Shukla. The film stars Vinay Pathak and Neha Dhupia, whilst Rajat Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjay Mishra, and Saurabh Shukla play supporting rol ...

(2011) *

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(2013) *

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Filmography

*''All films are in Hindi, unless, otherwise noted.''

Television

*''Perfect 10'' on Sony Pix – Anchor *''Glamorous'' on Zoom – Anchor *''E Buzzon'' AXN – Anchor *''Cornetto Anchor Hunt'' on Zing/ETC – Judge * '' Baby Come Naa''- Web series on

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References

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