Avantika Vandanapu Biography 
Avantika Vandanapu is an Indian-American child artist and performer who finished second at Zee TV’s first edition of the reality show, Dance India Dance Lil Masters North America, in 2014. She was selected as one of the top 10 finalists from more than 10,000 contestants who auditioned for the show, and she is the only winner from the West Coast. She was nine years old when she won this contest.
She is basically a dancer, model, anchor and an actor too. She made her film debut in the year 2016 with the film, Brahmotsavam playing Mahesh Babu's cousin role. Now this promising young actress has a handful of film roles, including the much awaited remake of 2016 – Premam (Telugu), where she reprises the role of Eva Prakash in its original Malayalam version. She is currently working for Manamantha and Oxygen, apart from a couple of untitled Telugu projects.
She was born on 1 January 2005 in Union City, California, USA. She started formal learning in semi-classical dance at the age of 5. At the age of 7 she started learning Kuchipudi. Since then she participated in several contests and emerged as the winner. She came to spotlight after she became one of the finalists of Dance India Dance Lil Masters, conducted in US. She signed two Telugu film projects in 2015. She received first offer for the film, Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha. But she couldn’t accept the role due to the conflict of dates.
In 2016 she made her film debut through Brahmotsavam. Premam is her much awaited Telugu movie and she plays the childhood role of Madonna Sebastian in this film. She appeared in the short film "Swecha” in 2016.
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Updated: June 19, 2016
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