Neeta Pillai is an Indian actress from

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, India who predominantly working in the

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industry. She debuted with

Poomaram ''Poomaram'' is a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language musical drama film written, co-produced and directed by Abrid Shine. The film stars debutants Kalidas Jayaram as well as Neeta Pillai in lead roles of Malayalam cinema. Plot The film is based on ...

in 2018, alongside

Kalidas Jayaram Kalidas Jayaram (born 16 December 1993) is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam and Tamil cinema, Tamil films. The son of film actors Jayaram and Parvathy Jayaram, Parvathy, Kalidas made his debut in the Mal ...

Early life

Neeta was born at

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, Kerala to Vijayan P.N. and Manjula D. Nair. She has done Masters in Petroleum engineering from

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, United States. She is a trained classical musician and dancer. She has also won second runner-up title of Miss-Bollywood beauty pageant held at

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in 2015.

Career

Neeta started her acting in 2018 with

in the film

, a musical drama film written and directed by

Abrid Shine Abrid Shine is an Indian film director, screenwriter and fashion photographer in the Malayalam film industry. He made his directorial debut in 2014 with the film '' 1983'', which won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director. Personal ...

and won

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for ''Best New Face of the Year (Female)'' for her role. She was also nominated for

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(SIIMA) for Best Debut Actress (Malayalam). In 2020, she played the lead role of a martial arts expert in Abrid Shine's ''

The Kung Fu Master ''The Kung Fu Master'' is a 2020 Indian Malayalam-language martial arts film written and directed by Abrid Shine and produced by Shibu Thekkumpuram under the banner of Fullon Studio Frames. The film stars Neeta Pillai, Sanoop Dinesh and Jiji S ...

''. The film was influenced by the action films of

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and

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and shot at Himalayan Valley,

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and

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. She has trained for a year to do action scenes in the film ''The Kung Fu Master''.

Filmography

Films

All films are in

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language unless otherwise noted.

Television

Awards

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pillai, Neeta Living people Indian film actresses Actresses from Kerala 21st-century Indian actresses Actresses in Malayalam cinema Women artists from Kerala People from Idukki district 1991 births