Dhanya Balakrishna

Dhanya Balakrishna
Dhanya Balakrishna
Born	6 August 1991 (age 32); Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Model, actress
Years active	2011-present

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Dhanya Balakrishna (born 6 August 1991) is an Indian actress who has appeared mostly in Telugu films along with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She made her debut in Malayalam film industry in the movie Thalappavu^[1] in the year 2008. After making her debut in A. R. Murugadoss's 7aum Arivu (2011),^[2] she appeared in ventures including Gautham Vasudev Menon's Neethaane En Ponvasantham (2012), Atlee's Raja Rani (2013) and Srikanth Addala's Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013). Dhanya made her debut as female lead in Telugu with Chinni Chinni Aasa (2013).

Early life[edit]

Dhanya Balakrishna was born on August 6, 1989, in Bangalore, Karnataka. Kannada is her mother tongue.^[3] She was educated at MES.^[4]

Career[edit]

Dhanya began her acting career with performances in theatre, before playing a supporting role in A. R. Murugadoss's 7aum Arivu (2011) alongside Suriya and Shruti Haasan.^[5] She was next seen in two bilingual projects, portraying supporting roles -Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012) and then Gautham Vasudev Menon's Neethaane En Ponvasantham (2012).^[5]^[4]

Dhanya, portrayed supporting role in the 2013 Telugu film Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu as a girl who proposes to the character played by Mahesh Babu; while in Raja Rani (2013), she was seen as Nivitha, a friend of Nayantara's character. Her first leading role was in the Telugu film Chinni Chinni Aasa (2013), released in November 2013, while other projects, Amrutham Chandamamalo and Second Hand, were released thereafter. She has been part of nearly 40 movies and 10 web series.

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2011	7aum Arivu	Malathi	Tamil	Tamil Debut
2012	Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi	Rashmi	Tamil
	Love Failure	Rashmi	Telugu	Telugu Debut
	Neethaane En Ponvasantham	Nithya's friend	Tamil
	Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu	Nithya's friend	Telugu
2013	Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu	girl who proposes to Chinnodu	Telugu
	Raja Rani	Nivetha	Tamil
	Chinni Chinni Aasa	Nisha	Telugu	Debut as lead actress
	Second Hand	Sahasra / Deepu / Swecha		Also singer for "Jo Tera Hi Ho Mera Hai"
2014	Amrutham Chandamamalo	Sanjeevini
	Run Raja Run	Soundarya / Bangaram		Cameo Appearance
	Chinnadana Nee Kosam	Nandhini's friend
2015	Raju Gari Gadhi	Bala Tripura Sundari
2015	Bhale Manchi Roju	Maya D'Souza
2016	Nenu Sailaja	Keerti
	Thanu Vachhenanta	Keerti
	Savitri	Gayathri
2017	Veedevadu	Dr.Gouthami Ramakrishna
	Yaar Ivan	Dr.Gouthami Ramakrishna	Tamil
	Jaya Janaki Nayaka	Sweety's friend	Telugu
2019	Love Action Drama	Priya	Malayalam	Malayalam debut
	Puzhikkadakan	Anna	Malayalam
	Hulchul	Swathi	Telugu
	Sarvajanikarige Suvarnavakasha	Janhavi	Kannada	Kannada Debut^[6]
	Software Sudheer	Swathi	Telugu
2020	Anukunnadi Okati Ayinadi Okati	Dhanya	Telugu
2022	Carbon	Swapna	Tamil
	Flip Flop		Kannada	Filming
	2020		Kannada	Filming

Television[edit]

Year	Series	Role	Language	Availability	Notes
2017	Pilla	Sahasra	Telugu	Viu
2017	As I'm Suffering From Kadhal	Meera	Tamil	Hotstar
2019	What's Up Velakkari	Jessi	Tamil	ZEE5
2019	What's up Panimanishi	Jessi	Telugu	ZEE5
2019	Rakta Chandanaa	DSP Janaki Atholi	Kannada	Watcho
2021	Alludu Garu	Ammu	Telugu	Aha	Official Remake of What the folks series
2022	Loser	Maya Sivaramakrishna		ZEE5	Season 2
2022	Recce	Gouri		ZEE5

References[edit]

↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245741/ Template:User-generated source
↑ "After acting in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam, Dhanya Balakrishnan bags first Kannada film". Indian Express. 15 October 2018. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
↑ "Now I am a south Indian heroine, says Dhanya Balakrishna". New Indian Express. 14 October 2018. The best part is that my dialogue delivery will be a lot more real because Kannada is my mother tongue, and unlike other languages, I don't have to translate it in my head, which is just a lot of effort
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Yerasala, Ikyatha (30 October 2019). "Dhanya's ride to success!". Deccan Chronicle.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "The new girl on the block: Dhanya Balakrishnan - Times of India". The Times of India.
↑ "Becoming lead heroine is the toughest thing I have done: Dhanya Balakrishnan - Times of India". The Times of India.

[1] ttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245741/ Template:User-generated source

[2] "After acting in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam, Dhanya Balakrishnan bags first Kannada film". Indian Express. 15 October 2018. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2019.

[3] "Now I am a south Indian heroine, says Dhanya Balakrishna". New Indian Express. 14 October 2018. The best part is that my dialogue delivery will be a lot more real because Kannada is my mother tongue, and unlike other languages, I don't have to translate it in my head, which is just a lot of effort

[D-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Yerasala, Ikyatha (30 October 2019). "Dhanya's ride to success!". Deccan Chronicle.

[T-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "The new girl on the block: Dhanya Balakrishnan - Times of India". The Times of India.

[K-6] "Becoming lead heroine is the toughest thing I have done: Dhanya Balakrishnan - Times of India". The Times of India.

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