K Mahashweta is a Malayalam child actress who gained recognition after winning the 2002 Las Vegas Film Awards for Best Child Actress for her role in the Malayalam short film “Grandma Toy”.
Wiki/Biography
K Mahashweta/Mahaswetha was born in 2010 (10 years old; as of 2020) in Angeripalayam, Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. As of 2020, she is a student of MGV Global Academy ICSE school, Tirupur. From the age of 4, she developed an interest in acting as she enjoyed watching movies, singing and dancing.
Mahashweta with her sister after the school play
family
Her father PU Krishnan is a filmmaker who has made four short films for her. She also has a younger sister of the same age. Apart from this, there is not much information about her family.
K Mahashweta’s father PU Krishnan
Mahashweta and her sister
How did your acting career begin?
In an interview with Times of India, Mahashweta revealed how she entered the acting industry. She said,
When I was four years old, I used to watch movies on TV and I would try to imitate the actors. I loved watching movies in all languages and I would act out scenes from the movies in front of my parents. They would appreciate my performance. I had a habit of saving money and never spent it on anything. One day, I gave all my savings to my father and told him that I wanted to act in movies. Seeing my interest and passion in acting, my father approached his friend, Surjeet Das, a director from Kerala, who gave me my first opportunity in the short film Aarodu Paruyum.
Profession
Maheshweta started her acting career with a Malayalam short film Aarodu Paruyum (Whom Should I Tell) which was released in 2019. In the film, she played a little girl who longed for her parents’ love and attention, but had no one to confide her troubles to as her parents were busy using electronic devices such as smartphones.
In 2020, she acted in another Malayalam short film, Toy Granny, in which she played an orphan girl who helps the elderly people in a nursing home.
Still from the movie “Who Should I Tell?”, Mahashweta is helping an old lady
As of 2020, she has acted in four Malayalam short films. She has won the International Award for Best Child Actress for two of these four films.
Awards/Honors
- She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Child Actress (2019) for her role as Miya in the Malayalam short film Aarodu Paruyum “Who Should I Tell?”
Mahashweta wins 2019 LAFA Best Child Actress Award
- She won the Best Child Actress Award at the 2020 Las Vegas Film Awards for her performance in the Malayalam short film Granny’s Toys.
Mahashweta won the Best Child Actress Award at the 2020 Las Vegas Awards
Favorite things
Actresses: Kirti Suresh & Priyanka Chopra
Starring: Saravanan Sivakumar / Suriya
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education