Nithya Menen
Nithya Menen is an Indian film actress and playback singer from Bangalore, who works in the South Indian film industries.
Nithya Menen was born in Bangalore into a Malayali family and studied journalism at the Manipal Institute of Communication. Her father's family is from Calicut and her mother's is from Palakkad. She once said in an interview that she never wished to become an actress but a journalist as she was "an idealist", but felt journalism was "not what it used to be". She then decided to become a filmmaker as she could express her ideas "better through films", and enrolled for a course in cinematography at the FTI Pune.