Soundarya Bala Nandakumar is an Indian singer and actress. She is known for playing Revathy in the Tamil television soap opera, ''

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'' (9 May 2016 – 9 March 2019).

Career

In 2010, Soundarya made her television debut as a contestant in '' Super Singer 3''. She debuted as a singer with the film '' 6 Meluguvarthigal'' (2013). In 2015, she debuted as one of the lead actress in the television series ''

'' after the makers of the series saw her performance in ''Super Singer''. She garnered acclaim for her role as Revathy in the series, which went on to run for almost 700 episodes. In 2016, she took part in the '' Super Singer 5 Mini Series''. soundarya was featured singing " Thendral Vanthu" in ''

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'' (2016). She had previously sung that song on ''Super Singer''. Her next song was "Kalavani" in ''

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'', which she co-sang with VV Prasanna. In ''The Times of India'' review of the film's soundtrack, the reviewer wrote that "A folk duet, Prasanna and Soundarya shine in this one". She later starred with

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, her ''Pagal Nilavu'' co-star in the short film ''Yours Shamefully'', which became viral upon release. The team of the upcoming ''

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'' saw the short and subsequently signed soundarya to play a role in the film.

Controversy

In 2018, Syed Anwar and

Sameera Sherief Sameera Sherief is an Indian television actress and producer who acted in ''Bharayamani'' serial and serials like ''Prathibimbam'', ''Mangamma Gari Manavaralu'' and played the lead role in the Tamil serials like Pagal Nilavu in 2016 and ''Rekka Ka ...

left ''Pagal Nilavu''. Soundarya told ''The Times of India'' how she influenced the makers of the series to give her more screen time. Later that year, Soundarya and

left the series as it was hard to continue the series without two of the main characters.

Filmography

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

As a singer

As an actor

; Films ; Television ; Short films

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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