Asin
Asin Thottumkal was born in Kerala, Kochi. She was born on the 26th October 1985.She belongs to a Syrian Christian family. Her father Joseph Thottumkal is a businessman and her mother Seline Thottumkal is a surgeon. Her father and mother used to always accompany her whenever she went for her shooting in country as well as abroad. She studied at Naval Public School and at St Theresa’s Higher Secondary School. She completed her degree in English Literature from the same school where she used to study at St Theresa’s College.
Asin’s movie career started with Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka in the year 2001 directed by Sathyan Anthikkad. She was fifteen when she was signed for this movie. This movie didn’t perform well at the box office. Her first hit movie was Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi in 2003. This was a commercial movie for which she won the award of the Best Telugu Actress from the Filmfare Award and from Santosham Awards respectively.
After winning her first award she went on to do more movies .Asin received her second award for the Tamil movie Ghajini in 2005 where she was played the role of a lead actress. She also received the Best actress award from the filmfare awards. Recently, her two Bollywood movies were released Ghajini which was inspired by the Tamil movie Ghajini and London Dreams. The Bollywood movie Ghajini was a superhit at box office while her second movie London Dreams wasn’t successful. The movie Ghajini in Hindi gave her a new platform to start Although London dreams failed to make good business in India. It was successful in Europe.
Asin says she wants to grow in her career in an ethical way. Most of the awards Asin received are from the South Indian cinema. Asin is currently working on her upcoming bollywood movies the title of the movies is not announced yet she is also working on a Tamil movie Kaavalkaaran waiting to be released.
One of her famous movies in south cinema is Dasavathaaram which is in Tamil. This movie was directed by K. S. Ravikumar and the lead actor was Kamal Haasan.In Dasavathaaram Kamal Haasan played ten different roles. This movie was directed brilliantly the movie received appreciation from all over the nation by the audiences and critics. This movie became one of the biggest blockbusters in the South Indian cinema.
Asin knows different languages such as Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Sanskrit, Hindi, French and English. She is the only Indian actress to have a blog in French language. She is very fond of reading books and she has a good collection of books.
She has now left her apartments in Chennai and moved in Mumbai in Andheri (W), lokhandwala. She also helps her father in his computer business. She has also done few ads like Mirinda, Fairever cream, etc. According to Asin, the letter ‘A’in her name means without in Sanskrit and ‘SIN’ is taken from the English language.