Namitha Pramod

Namitha Pramod is an Indian film actress, who appears in Malayalam films. She made her acting debut in the Malayalam film Traffic.

Early life and education

Namitha was born in Kumarakom as the daughter of Pramod, a businessman and Indu, a housewife. She has a younger sister Akhita Pramod. She did her schooling at Carmel Girls Higher Secondary School in Thiruvananthapuram. She was enrolled at the St. Teresa's College to pursue a BA degree in Sociology in June 2014. She has stated that she was "not going to let [her] acting career compromise [her] studies". Serial actor Kumarakom Raghunath is her father's brother.

Career

Namitha started acting when she was in seventh standard by taking on roles in serials such as Vellankanni Mathavu where she played the role of Mathavu, Amme Devi where she played the role of Devi and Ente Manasa Puthri where she played Anjali. She made her debut in films when she acted as Riya, the dying daughter of Rahman and Lena, in Rajesh Pillai's critically acclaimed Traffic. In her next film Puthiya Theerangal she played her first lead role, playing a fisherwoman, opposite Nivin Pauly. It was followed by more lead roles in Sound Thoma with Dileep and Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum with Kunchacko Boban in which she played a Mohiniyattam dancer. She was not trained in Mohiniyattam and learned the dance steps in Saranya Mohan's dance school in Alappuzha for four days. Both films were successes and she was selected as Top Star (Female) 2013 in Malayalam.

Namitha

Namitha is an Indian film actress, mostly active in the South Indian Film Industry. She competed in the Miss India 2001 pageant and made her film debut in 2002.

Career

Namitha was crowned Miss Surat during the year of 1998. She went on to participate in the 2001 Miss India pageant and ended up as the fourth runner-up, while Celina Jaitley was crowned Miss India during this event. This publicity opened up doors for her and she did a number of TV commercials like Himani cream & hand soap, Arun Ice Creams, Manikchand Gutka, and Nile herbal shampoo.

She made her acting debut in the Telugu film Gemini but Sontham directed by Sreenu Vaitla got released first. Technically Gemini is her first movie. Subsequent to that, she starred in the Tamil film Aai. In 2006 she made her Bollywood debut in the Hindi film Love Ke Chakkar Mein. Standing 6' tall, she is one of the tallest actresses in Bollywood. On 26 October 2010, there was an attempt to kidnap her by a fan at Trichy in Tamil Nadu.

Namitha has been an advocate of safe driving and in June 2012, she and Tamil actor Bharat promoted awareness of safe driving.