Neeta Pillai
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Neeta Pillai | |
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| Born | Thodupuzha, Kerala, India |
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| Years active | 2018–present |
Neeta Pillai is an Indian actress from Kerala who predominantly working in the Malayalam film industry. She debuted with Poomaram in 2018, alongside Kalidas Jayaram.[1][2]
Neeta was born at Thodupuzha, Kerala to Vijayan P.N. and Manjula D. Nair.[3] She has done Masters in Petroleum engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States. She is a trained classical musician and dancer.[4] She has also won second runner-up title of Miss-Bollywood beauty pageant held at Houston in 2015.[5][6][7]
Career
Neeta started her acting in 2018 with Kalidas Jayaram in the film Poomaram, a musical drama film written and directed by Abrid Shine and won Asianet Film Awards for Best New Face of the Year (Female) for her role.[citation needed] She was also nominated for 8th South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) for Best Debut Actress (Malayalam).[8][9] In 2020, she played the lead role of a martial arts expert in Abrid Shine's The Kung Fu Master.[10][11] The film was influenced by the action films of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li and shot at Himalayan Valley, Badrinath and India-China border.[12][13] She has trained for a year to do action scenes in the film The Kung Fu Master.[14][15]