Navya Nair - Film Career

Film Career

She was still at school when offered her first film role, starring opposite Dileep in Ishtam in 2001. There followed further roles in partnership with Dileep, in films such as Mazhathullikkilukkam, Kunjikoonan, Kalyanaraman, Pandippada, Gramaphone and Pattanathil Sundaran.

The most popular character of navya is that of 'balamani' in Nandanam. This character is regarded as one of her best. Critics commented that " Balamani is a very memorable one. Like any live wire girl, she is opinionated, works hard and dishes out her verdict on anything and anyone if you want it or not. Navya lived the character of Balamani in a flawless performance".The film has placed navya in lead. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress in 2002 for Nandanam. Prithviraj Sukumaran is considered as her best pair in film. Prithviraj-Navya Nair Jodi was very popular in the year 2002-2003.Prithviraj and Navya came together for the first time in 'Nandanam' (2002), a movie that was applauded by both the critics and fans. They went on to act together in movies such as 'Vellithira', 'Ammakkilikoodu' and 'calendar'. She was paired with all Superstars of malayalam film industry including Mohanlal, Mammooty, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram,Dileep, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jayasurya..etc.She had plastic surgery performed on her lips (met with an accident and tore her lips while shooting for a Malayalam film Immini Nalloral ).

She went on to do many successful movies later on, and was praised for her selection of characters. She,when compared to her contemperory actresses, has done films which shows her character highlighted. Many of her films was remade to other languages,like Kunjikoonan and Nandanam,and actresses has reported that it is hard to catch up with the range of Navya. She has always been attracted to offbeat movies, which show-case her tallent. Sairaand Kanne Madanguka are notable among them.Critics wrote that "Navya Nair has brilliantly portrayed Saira during different stages of her life - as the plucky journalist and as the helpless victim of rape and police harassment and portrayal of Karunya in Kanne Madanguka, from a simple school girl with just studies in her mind, she turns to a wage earner and the changes in her character are very well done.She won the state award again in 2005 for her performance in Kanne Madanguka and Saira.

Her debut in Tamil cinema came with Azhagiya Theeye and her first role in Kannada cinema was in Gaja. She did few other tamil movies too. But the most notable one was 2009 tamil movie Aadum Koothu,the film which won the National Award for the best tamil film. This T.V.Chandran film revolved around the character called Manimekala played by Navya Nair. Her performance got huge prise and she was even considered in the National award for best actress, which happened for the third time, the first two times being in 2002 for Nandanam and in 2005 for Saira. She concentrated on performance oriented character in tamil too as like what she did in malayalam. She managed earn the prestigious Kalaimamani award, with her brilliance and dedication in acting.Even though she has done only a few kannada movies, all of them were commercially and critically successful.

She has around 50 movies to her credit. After marriage she made her comeback as a judge in Munch Dance Dance in Asianet.

Now she also made a come back in silverscreen through'scene onnu nammude veedu' in which she done the role of a school teacher,named 'manju' opposite to lal.