Girija Shettar

Girija Shettar is a former film actress of British Indian origin, known for her works in South Indian films. In 1989, Shettar starred in Maniratnams film Geethanjali. She then did the Malayalam film Vandanam, directed by Priyadarshan in which she starred alongside Mohanlal.

Girija Shettar was born onJuly 1969 in Orsett, Essex to a Kannada doctor father and a British mother. From the age of 18, Girija got trained in Bharatanatyam. She completed a doctoral thesis in Integral Yoga Philosophy and Indian spiritual psychology from Cardiff University in 2003. She spends as much time as possible at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry. Girija is currently a writer based in London. Previously working for a medical technology newsletter, she is now writing for a shipping magazine. A booklet of haiku poetry entitled This Year, Daffodils was published by Survivors Poetry and the Esmee Fairburn Foundation, 2011.

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