Archana Sharma, also credited as Ayshickka Sharma, is an

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and model, who appears in Kollywood and Tollywood films. She made her acting debut in '' Thozhi'' (2009). She is currently pursuing her MBA from ISBR Chennai.

Career

Sharma hails from

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. She was born in

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and lived in Mumbai before she came to

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. Before she became an actress, she did modelling. She has done over forty commercials, which include ads for Francis Alukkas jewellery and textiles in Chennai and Kerala, RmKV, Univercell mobiles,

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and Pigeon cooker. She completed her engineering in Computer Science from Saveetha Engineering college, thandalam, chennai She is trained in Martial arts and has received the Black Belt. She is also a trained

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dancer. She is doing her

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from ISBR Chennai. She was introduced by director Elango Lakshmanan in the Tamil film '' Thozhi'' (2009). She later acted in S. A. Chandrasekhar's '' Veluthu Kattu'' and with

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in ''Othigai''. She made her Tollywood debut with R. P. Patnaik's ''

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''. She will make her Malayalam debut with ''Second Innings''. She acts as Parvathy Maria Columbus who is in love with Manu Madhav, played by

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. While shooting a song at

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, she and her co-star Rajeev Pillai almost fell off a cliff.

Filmography

References

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