Aditi Balan

Aditi Balan

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Aditi Balan is a south Indian film actress, best known for her contributions towards Tamil cinema industry. She is best known for playing the titular role in 2017 social drama, Aruvi, which depleted the story of an AIDS patient and how society behaves to such patients. Aruvi is her first full length role for a movie. Earlier she has appeared in the movie Yennai Arindhaal (2015) featuring in the song “Mazai Vara poguthey”. She played Trisha Krishnan’s friend in the movie. It was an uncredited role, and hence Aruvi is her first credited acting role.

 

Aditi Balan hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was born in 1991. She was brought up in her hometown. She never dreamt to become an actress, and acting came just by chance. She is a huge fan of watching emotional dramas. She has done a couple of plays and also attended theater workshops before taking her first lead role. A friend from the theater suggested her to attend the audition of Aruvi. She attended a test shoot and later she was signed for the role. She lost 10 kilos and isolated herself for 45 days as a part of the preparation of the role. For Aruvi, the entire team had three months of rehearsals and spent a lot of time in the pre-production. But the movie was completed on a Shoe string budget of 1 crore. When the movie got released, it was a blockbuster collecting 35 crore at ticket counters. The movie was also shown at different film festivals.

 

The debutante actress who played the lead role in the Tamil emotional drama film Aruvi got a lot of accolades for her riveting performance in the film. Like her unique character in the film ‘Aruvi’, her character too is quite different from normal young heroine roles. She played an AIDS patient who fights against the norms of the film. She bagged Filmfare award for best actress (critics) for this role. She also won best debut actress award at Ananda Vikatan and Vijay Film Awards.

Published: July 23, 2018

Updated: July 23, 2018

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