Amala Paul

Amala Paul is an Indian film actress, who works in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu film industries. After appearing in supporting roles in the Malayalam film Neelathamara and Veerasekaran in Tamil, she received critical acclaim for the portrayal of a controversial character in the film, Sindhu Samaveli. Despite the failure of that film, Amala became noted after playing the title role in Mynaa, receiving critical acclaim for her work.

Amala was born in a Christian family onOctober 1991 at Ernakulam, Kerala to Paul Varghese and Annice Paul. After completing her schooling from Nirmala Higher Secondary School Aluva. She took a sabbatical to begin a career in films, but has since joined St. Teresas College in Kochi, to pursue a BA degree in English. Her father had been strictly against Amala pursuing an acting career, but was forced to accept her decision with her older brother, Abijith, strongly backing her ambition. She later claimed she had performing arts in her, revealing that her mother was a singer and her dad was into theatre in college. Amala had changed her onscreen name to Anakha, on director Samys insistence, who cited that another actress, Amala had already made her name popular. However, after the failure of Sindhu Samaveli, she reverted to her birth name since she felt that the replacement had brought her bad luck.

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