Sandhya (actress)

Sandhya
Sandhya
Born	Revathy; 27 September 1988 (age 34); Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004-2016 2020
Spouse	Arjun (m. 2015)
Children	1

Revathy (born 27 September 1988), known by her stage name Kadhal Sandhya, is an Indian actress who appears in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films.^[1]

Early life

She was born in . Her father Ajith is an employee of IOB and her mother Maya which is known as beautician. She has an elder brother, Rahul.^[2] She attended Vidyodaya Girls Higher Secondary School, Chennai until completing Class 9.^[2]

Career

Sandhya was studying when she starred in the Tamil love story Kaadhal. The role was offered to many known actresses, including Ileana D'Cruz and then Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, but the latter's father was reluctant to let her become an actress at the time. The team then picked Saranya was in Class IX, when cinematographer Vijay Milton referred her on to Balaji Sakthivel.^[3]^[4] She was initially considered to play the heroine in the film, but finally the role was later handed to Sandhya, after the director felt Saranya looked too young.^[5]

After the success of the film Kaadhal,in 2004, she took up a Malayalam film titled Alice in Wonderland which she played as the sister of actor Jayaram. Then came the musical romance Dishyum with Jeeva. In her third Tamil film, Vallavan, she had only a small role, and the film had only modest box office success.^[6] She also acted in Koodal Nagar with Bharath. After the success of Cycle, she shifted her focus to Malayalam cinema.^[7] She debuted as a playback singer for the film Manjal Veiyil.^[8] In 2010, she appeared in a role opposite Vishnuvardhan in the Kannada film Aptharakshaka directed by P. Vasu.

She is scheduled to appear in Tarun Gopi's forthcoming film Soodhaatam,^[9] Second Innings^[10] and Long Sight.^[11] She has been a judge on a number of reality shows including Comedy Stars and Little Stars on Asianet.

Personal life

She is married to Arjun, a Chennai-based IT employee, on 6 December 2015. The ceremony was held at Guruvayur Temple. The couple have a daughter, Shaema Venkat, born in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2004	Kaadhal	Aishwarya Rajendran	Tamil	Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize
2005	Alice in Wonderland	Alice	Malayalam
2006	Dishyum	Cinthya Jayachandran	Tamil	Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil
2006	Prajapathi	Malu	Malayalam
2006	Vallavan	Suchitra	Tamil
2006	Annavaram	Varalakshmi (Varam)	Telugu	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu
2007	Koodal Nagar	Thamizhselvi	Tamil
2007	Kannamoochi Yenada	Devasena Arumugam	Tamil
2008	Cycle	Meenkashi Kaushtubhan	Malayalam
2008	Thoondil	Anjali Sriram	Tamil
2008	Velli Thirai	Herself	Tamil	Cameo appearance
2008	Mahesh, Saranya Matrum Palar	Saranya	Tamil
2009	Nanda	Kavya	Kannada
2009	Manjal Veiyil	Gayathri	Tamil
2009	Odipolaama	Anjali	Tamil
2010	Aptharakshaka	Gowri	Kannada
2010	Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam	Thumbi	Tamil
2010	Haasini	Haasini	Telugu
2010	College Days	Anu	Malayalam
2010	Sahasram	Supriya, Sridevi	Malayalam
2011	Traffic	Adithi	Malayalam
2011	Three Kings	Manju	Malayalam
2011	D - 17	Sandhya	Malayalam
2012	Masters	Nia Ponnoose	Malayalam
2012	Veendum Kannur	Radhika	Malayalam
2012	Padmasree Bharat Dr. Saroj Kumar	Actress	Malayalam	Special appearance
2012	The Hitlist	Gouri Vikram	Malayalam
2013	Benki Birugali	Sandhya	Kannada
2013	Paisa Paisa	Kumudam	Malayalam
2013	Ya Ya	Kanaka	Tamil
2013	For Sale	Diana	Malayalam
2013	Soodhattam	—	Tamil
2013	Second Innings	—	Malayalam
2014	My Dear Mummy	Sandra	Malayalam
2014	Long Sight	—	Malayalam
2014	Paris Payyans	—	Malayalam
2014	Puzhayum Kannadiyum	—	Malayalam
2015	Thunai Mudhalvar	Rukmani	Tamil
2015	Kaththukkutti	Item dancer	Tamil	Special appearance
2015	Veri:Thimiru 2	—	Tamil
2016	Vettah	Sherin Melvin	Malayalam
2016	Avarude Veedu	Veena	Malayalam
2016	Ruthravathi	—	Tamil

Television series

Year	Serial	Character	Channel	Language	Ref.
2020	Kanmani	Kanmani	Sun TV	Tamil	^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b Arjun (25 December 2009). "Merry days are here". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
^ ^a ^b {cite web|last=|first=|date= le='കുട്ടികാജോള്‍' പേശ്‌റേന്‍ , Interview - Mathrubhumi Movies|url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies/interview/9074/%7Curl-status=dead%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219084129/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies/interview/9074/%7Carchive-date=19 December 2013|access-date=2013-12-19|website=Mathrubhumi|language=ml|df=dmy-all}}
^ "DIRECTOR BALAJI SAKTHIVEL INTERVIEW - Behindwoods.com - Interview Director Balaji Sakthivel Balaji Sakthivel Directed Movies Samurai Kaadhal Kalloori Rajinikanth starrer Sivaji The Boss Directing 2004 film Kaadhal Balaji Sakthivel an assistant director S.Shankar Samurai for Vikram Kaadhal S Pictures banner Production house of Shankar Native is Dindugal Images". Behindwoods.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
^ "Varalaxmi Sarathkumar opens up about her movies before Podaa Podi". 4 May 2020.
^ Rangarajan, Malathi (31 March 2012). "Awaiting the monsoon". The Hindu.
^ Rajpal, Roktim (28 December 2018). "Kaadhal Sandhya Found Her Role In Simbu's Vallavan 'Disappointing' For This Unexpected Reason". Filmibeat. Retrieved 8 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Sandhyas next is College Days". 2 June 2010.
^ "Hot News". Cine South. 14 March 2007. Archived from the original on 17 March 2007.
^ Raghavan, Nikhil (7 October 2013). "Shotcuts: Gaining experience". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
^ George, Vijay (11 April 2013). "Turning a new leaf". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
^ "Maqbool Salman and Kathal Sandhya in Long Sight". Nowrunning. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Actor Sanjeev in Kanamani". The Indian Express Tamil.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

Sandhya at IMDb

[dob-1] Arjun (25 December 2009). "Merry days are here". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 21 December 2011.

[mathrubhumi-2] {cite web|last=|first=|date= le='കുട്ടികാജോള്‍' പേശ്‌റേന്‍ , Interview - Mathrubhumi Movies|url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies/interview/9074/%7Curl-status=dead%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219084129/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies/interview/9074/%7Carchive-date=19 December 2013|access-date=2013-12-19|website=Mathrubhumi|language=ml|df=dmy-all}}

[3] "DIRECTOR BALAJI SAKTHIVEL INTERVIEW - Behindwoods.com - Interview Director Balaji Sakthivel Balaji Sakthivel Directed Movies Samurai Kaadhal Kalloori Rajinikanth starrer Sivaji The Boss Directing 2004 film Kaadhal Balaji Sakthivel an assistant director S.Shankar Samurai for Vikram Kaadhal S Pictures banner Production house of Shankar Native is Dindugal Images". Behindwoods.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

[4] "Varalaxmi Sarathkumar opens up about her movies before Podaa Podi". 4 May 2020.

[5] Rangarajan, Malathi (31 March 2012). "Awaiting the monsoon". The Hindu.

[6] Rajpal, Roktim (28 December 2018). "Kaadhal Sandhya Found Her Role In Simbu's Vallavan 'Disappointing' For This Unexpected Reason". Filmibeat. Retrieved 8 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[7] "Sandhyas next is College Days". 2 June 2010.

[8] "Hot News". Cine South. 14 March 2007. Archived from the original on 17 March 2007.

[9] Raghavan, Nikhil (7 October 2013). "Shotcuts: Gaining experience". The Hindu. Chennai, India.

[10] George, Vijay (11 April 2013). "Turning a new leaf". The Hindu. Chennai, India.

[11] "Maqbool Salman and Kathal Sandhya in Long Sight". Nowrunning. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[12] "Actor Sanjeev in Kanamani". The Indian Express Tamil.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress
1972–1979	Jayalalithaa (1972) Jayalalithaa (1973) Lakshmi (1974) Sujatha (1975) Sujatha (1976) Sujatha (1977) Latha (1978) Shoba (1979)
1980–1999	Saritha (1980) Sridevi (1981) Poornima Jayaram (1982) Lakshmi (1983) Saritha (1984) Radha (1985) Raadhika (1986) Raadhika (1987) Archana (1988) Bhanupriya (1989) Raadhika (1990) Gautami (1991) Revathi (1992) Revathi (1993) Revathi (1994) Manisha Koirala (1995) Shruti (1996) Meena (1997) Kausalya (1998) Ramya Krishnan (1999)
2000–2019	Jyothika (2001) Laila (2002) Simran (2003) Laila (2004) Sandhya (2005) Asin (2006) Bhavana (2007) Priyamani (2008) Parvathy Thiruvothu (2009) Pooja (2010)) Anjali (2011) Samantha (2012) Nayanthara (2013) Malavika Nair (2014) Nayanthara (2015) Ritika Singh (2016) Nayanthara (2017) Trisha (2018)

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Supporting Actress
2002–2018	Sangeetha (2002) Jayasudha (2003) Keerthi Reddy (2004) Neha Oberoi (2005) Sandhya (2006) Sonia Deepti (2007) Jayasudha (2008) Ramya Krishna (2009) Abhinaya (2010) Baby Annie (2011) Amala (2012) Lakshmi Manchu (2013) Lakshmi Manchu (2014) Ramya Krishna (2015) Nandita Swetha (2016) Ramya Krishna (2017) Anasuya Bharadwaj (2018)
2020–present	Tabu (2020–2021)