Meenakshi Sarkar

Meenakshi Sarkar Biography

Pinky Sarkar better known as Meenakshi, is an Indian film actress, who appears in Tamil,Telugu and Malayalam language films. She is probably first known for her performance as Raasathi in her debut film Karuppasamy kuththagaithaarar.  Meenaksh  first appeared in two telugu ventures, the historical  fiction Hanumanthu and the devotional film Satyanarayana swamy, under her birth name Pinky Sarkar, the latter featured her as goddess  Lakshmi, with a reviewer from Indiaglitz.com writing that she “failed to emote well”. She made her tamil debut in Kauppasamy kuththagaithaarar, playing the role of Raasathi, a first year medical student. She made an impression in the film and was subsequently flooded with similar girl next door roles. Not wanting to become typecast , she rejected all the roles,took a break from acting and completed her education before returning Chennai.

2009, she had her next film TN 07 AL 4777 ready for release. It was a remake film from Hindi Taxi No.9211.  She played the role of Pooja,’ a rich extrovert and party loving cosmopolitan girl”, for which she went in for a fashion makeover. That year, she acted in 2 more Tamil films.  Sundar.C’s Perumal and Raghava Lawrence’s Rajathi Raja, besides making a special appearance in Vishal’s Thoranai.  Then She was seen in Karu.Pazhaniyappan’s Mandhira Punnagai and Agam Puram, after which she did not act for over three years as she was pursuing her MBA degree and for taking care of her father who was not well. In 2014, She took up a lead role in Villangam and a supporting role in Vetrimaaran’s Soodhadi besides agreeing to perform in a special song in Ezhil’s Vellakkaara Durai.

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Updated: July 04, 2018