Anjana Jayaprakash

Anjana Jayaprakash is an Indian film actress, who has appeared in Tamil and Malayalam language films. She had acted in several short films in lead roles and a few supporting roles in feature films, before making her breakthrough appearing in the blockbuster Tamil film Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (2016) in one of the pivotal roles.

Anjana Jayaprakash
Born	3 June 1992 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress Film Producer Model
Years active	2016–present

Career

Anjana was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She completed her school education there and moved to Coimbatore, India to pursue her engineering degree in B.Tech Fashion Technology in Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore. In college, she was senior to Director Karthick Naren,[1] who later directed Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru. During college, she started modelling for college fashion shows and designer events. She also started acting in short films made in her college. One notable short film was Muse,[2] directed by her college junior Kannan RK. She portrayed the role of Mythili, a sex worker who aspires to become an Actress and eventually ends up being a best selling author of a Novel. This short film fetched Awards in so many Film festivals around the country. The short film was even nominated for the National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film.[3] After all these overwhelming accolades, she finally decided to pursue Acting as a Full-time profession.

She made her debut in feature films with a minor role as a reporter in Aneesh Anwar's 2015 Malayalam thriller film named Kumbasaram.

But she got various offers in modelling and started appearing in many television advertisements. She acted in a music video Sun Le Zara and also took the helms of directing a music video Rimjhim gire sawan by the artist Simran Sehgal. She finally made her breakthrough with the blockbuster film Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru, portraying Vaishnavi, one of the pivotal characters in the film. The success of this film, made her noticeable, and an actress to look forward in the Tamil film industry.[4]

Filmography

As actress

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2015	Muse	Mythili	Kannan RK	Short film
2015	Kumbasaram	Reporter	Aneesh Anwar
2016	Sun Le Zara	main lead	Jithin Krishnan	Music Video
2016	Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru	Vaishnavi	Karthick Naren
2017	Detachment	Samaira	Prashanth Ramasamy	Short film
2019	Radha Ragasiya	Radha	Vignesh Srikanth	Short film
2019	Queen	Vicenarian Shakthi Seshadri	Gautham Menon	Web series on MX Player Platform
2019	Police dairy 2.0	Cop		Web series on ZEE5 Platform
2020	Eriyum Panikaadu	Sudha	Praveen Prasanna	Short film

As Director

Year	Title	Notes
2019	Barely Breathing	Short film

References

1. "Anjana and her famous college junior". 24 December 2016.
2. M, Ramakrishnan (7 January 2017). "Anjana winning various awards for Muse". The Hindu.
3. "Muse for National Awards". 13 March 2016.
4. "Anjana in her tamil debut".