Meena

Meena Durairaj (Tamil : மீனா) is one of the most successful actresses in South Indian cinema. Meena was born on September 16, 1978, in Chennai, India. She became heroine in a very young age when she was studying 8th std, she was just 12 or 13yrs old. But the characters she made is really a matured one, though the 'cute' and 'sweet little girl' performed very well in all her characters. This made her most successful heroine and she is well known for her 'beautiful eyes', 'charming smile' and 'sweet baby voice'.

Meena started her career as a child artist in the flim "Nenjangal" in "1982" which featured Dr. Sivaji Ganesan in the lead role. Very soon she became heroine in 1990, when she was in 7th std at - the age of 12 in the flim "oru pudhiya kathai" before that she did a short role in the flim "karthavyam" - which was dubbed as "Vyjayanthi IPS" in the same yr and went very well in all the languages, - Meena who was still in adolescence stage at that time and was doing child roles. Her mother - Rajamallika brought her to A.M.Ratnam's office for an offer. Even though she looked chubby, they felt - she fitted the bill. So in a very young age she started her carrier as a heroine because of her - "Matured body structure". She acted with Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, and later became a the star in her own right. She had hits with Muthu, Ejaman, Veera and - Avvai Shanmughi. Then she paired with all the actors with whom she acted as a "child artist" - like "Rajini, Sathyaraj, Prabhu" and many more actors. Following the release of her movies with Rajinikanth - in Japan and their commercial success, Meena's popularity also rose in Japan. She has acted in - almost all the south Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, - Kannada etc and opposite almost all the leading actors in these languages. She was in the film industry - as the top heroine in Telugu and Tamil for almost one and a half decades successfully from the early - 1990s. She often portrayed characters with unidimensional personality with no negativity and shades - of grey. She was also known to be limited as a glamorous actress though she acted in a few glamourous - roles like Maaman magal in Tamil opposite Sathyaraj and Muta Mestri in Telugu opposite - Chiranjeevi. She has also acted in Malayalam movies. In the Kannada remake of Autograph, - she played Sneha's role of Divya. She is currently starring as the lead in the Sun TV serial - Lakshmi. - - She did her schooling till 8th std in Vidyodhya schools in Chennai, till 8th std coz she became heroine in that young age and was also too busy so her mother decided to quit her studies and concentrated on her flim carrier after that she underwent private coaching and completed her 10th std . Then she got her MA (history)degree from University of Madras through open university system in the year "2006". Currently she is acting in one Tamil serial and acting in "Kuselan" flim which is a remake of "Kadha parayumbol" in which she did the same role and recently celebrated for the success of 175 days. - - Her close friends in actresses are Maheswari, Ramba, Sanghavi and Roja. Roja and Meena, in their younger age, resembled each other so much and in classmates are Gayathri, Aasha, Mallika. In fact Meena has acted as Roja's younger sister at least in 5 or 6 movies in Telugu. Even in peak of their competition when they acted together, Roja & Meena have been thick friends. When the make up artist failed to turn up at a remote village in Kakinada during the movie shoot of "Bobbili Simham" in 1994, its known that Roja did Meena's hairstyles for those two days for a song involving Meena and much appreciated by Meena herself. - - official website of Meena - Says her date of birth September 16, 1979.(!). Meena acted as a married women in a 1990 DD TV Serial (Anbulla Amma) with famous Tamil Actress Manorama.Its quite an achievement

Kuselan (2008) (Under production),Rajinikanth,prabhu,pasupathy,jagapathi babu,nayanthara,sneha,mamta mohandas..
Kathaparayumbol (2007),mamooty,sreenivasan
Black Cat (2007,M)....suresh gopi
My Autograph (2006) .... Divya,sudeep
Neela Padam (2005) .... Indulekha
Udayananu Tharam (2005,M) .... Madhumathi,mohanlal
Chandrotsavam (2004,M),mohanlal
Natturajavu (2004,M) .... Maya,mamooty
Shock (2004) .... Malini,prashanth
Simhachalam (2003)
Sethupathi IPS,vijayakanth
Vaanathai Pola,vijayakanth
Mr. Brahmachari (2003,M) .... Ganga,mohanlal
Villain (2002,T) .... ,ajithkumar
Sri Manjunatha (2001,T) .... Goddess Parvathi,siranjeevi,arjun,soundarya
Censor (2001/I)
Citizen (2001,T),ajithkumar
Maayi (2001,T),sarath kumar
Vanathai Pola (2001,T)
Rakshasa Rajav (2001,M)
Thenali (2000,T) .... Meena,kamal hassan
Doubles (2000),prabhu deva
Rhythm (2000,T) .... Chitra,arjun
Olympian Anthony Adam (1999,M)
Friends (1999,M),jayaram
Sneham Kosam (1999) .... Prabha,siranjeevi
Anandha Poongatre (1999) ,ajith
Kusruthi Kuruppu (1998,M)
Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar (1998,T),prabhu deva
Varnapakittu (1997,M)
Porkaalam (1997,T),murali
Avvai Shanmugi (1996,T) .... Janaki,kamal
Miya Biwi Aur Saali (1996,H)
Muthu (1995,T) .... Ranganayaki,rajini
Rajakumaaran (1994,T),prabhu,nadhiya
Veera (1994,T) .... Devayanai "Devi",rajini,roja
Mutamestri (1993,T) .... Buchamma,siranjeevi
Yejaman (1993,T).....Vaitheeswari,rajini
Rajeshwari Kalyanam (1993) .... Rajeshwari
Abbaigaaru
Ashwamedham (1993)
Allari Mogudu (1992,Te)
Sundara Kanda (1992,Te) .... Venkateswarlu's Wife,venkatesh
Chanti (1992)
En Rasavin Manisile (1991,T) .... Cholaiamma,rajkiran
Saanthwanam (M) ...
Chengalva Poodanda (1991,Te)
Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu (1991) .... Seeta
Navodayam (1990)
Karthavyam (1990,Te) .... Karuna
Vasanthi (1988)(as baby Meena)
Sirivennela (1986) (as Baby Meena)
Rendu Rella Aaru (1985,Te) (as Baby Meena)
Uyire Unakkaga (1984) as young nathiya moidu
Anbulla Rajinikanth (1984) (as Baby Meena).... Rosy
Nenjangal (1982) (as baby Meena)...Bala