Shanthi Arvind is an Indian dancer, choreographer and actor popularly known as “Metti Oli Shanthi” for her role in the Tamil show “Metti Oli”.
Wiki/Biography
Shanthi Arvind was born on Sunday, February 17, 1980, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (age 42; as of 2022). In the 1990s, considering her family’s poverty, she obtained a dance union membership card very early and started working.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′7″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Shanthi Arvind was born into a poor family in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
parents
There is not much information about her parents. Her mother had been a single parent since Shanti was a child.
Shanti Arvind and her mother
husband and children
In 2007, Shanthi married Arvind. She has two children – a son and a daughter.
Shanthi and her husband – photos taken at the show
Sandy and her children
Shanthi Arvind’s family portrait – taken on Valentine’s Day
religion
Shanthi Arvind follows Hinduism.
Profession
dancer
Movie
According to Shanthi, she made her debut as a group dancer at the age of 13 with the Tamil song “Tadukhi Dethki” in the film “Kizhakku Vaasal” (1990). She dances to songs in different languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
television
Shanthi Arvind made her television debut in 2002 in the Tamil daily soap opera “Metti Oli” aired on Tamil Sun TV. She made her debut in the TV series as a dancer on the title song. In 2022, she appeared as a contestant in the Indian reality show “Bigg Boss Tamil Season 6”.
Shanthi Arvind Bigg Boss Tamil Season 6 (2022)
assistant dance teacher
At the age of 15, Shanthi became an assistant dance master. According to Shanti, she has worked for many choreographers and choreographed songs in multiple languages, including Hindi, Telugu and Tamil; however, she was never praised for her work.
choreographer
The first song she choreographed was the Hindi version of the song “Jana Gana Mana” from Mani Ratnam’s “Ayutha Ezhuthu”. She later choreographed songs for several films, including Aakkam (2017), Mundrikkadu (2018), among others.
actor
In 2015, she appeared in the Tamil daily soap opera Kula Deivam (2015-2018), playing the role of Mangalasundari Karunakaran. Later, she got the opportunity to work in many other TV series including “Kalyana Parisu” (2018-2020) and “Kannana Kanne” (2021).
Shanthi plays ‘Lakshmi Arjun’ in Tamil serial ‘Kalyana Parisu’ stills
Shanthi plays ‘Renuka’ in stills from Tamil drama series Kannana Kanne (2021)
Awards
In 2022, Shanthi won the Ajantha Television Award.
Shanthi Arvind wins Ajantha Television Award(2022)
Favorites
- Movie: Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999)
- Location: Chennai, Malaysia
Facts/Trivia
- According to Shanthi Arvind, she was rejected multiple times because of her small stature and dark complexion.
- Shanthi revealed in an interview that she used to wear multiple layers of clothes and eat a lot to hide her skinny appearance to a certain extent.
- In an interview, she recalled an instance during a song shoot when the song guru slapped her for shooting too many songs. Shanti said,
During the song’s filming, shots like powder fell on the dancers’ faces. I was sitting down, wondering if it would fall into my eyes, when the powder fell on me. I’m going to have to take the second label. So, the singer got angry and hit me on the cheek in front of everyone. It took me a long time to control my crying. “I got stung by a ring…” My dance partners calmed me down.
- Shanthi revealed in an interview that she wanted to abort her second pregnancy because she was looking for more career opportunities after taking some time off after the birth of her first child; however, her family was not supportive of her decision at the time. she says,
I got married and took a break from cinema to take care of my first child. Then, while I was looking for opportunities, I got pregnant for the second time. For the film, I came up with the idea of dissolving that embryo. But the family disagreed. ”
- Her work in the Tamil serial “Metti Oli” brought her fame and later she started being known by the name “Metti Oli Shanthi”. Shanthi said in an interview about the choreography and recording of the title song of “Metti Oli”:
In 2002, we shot the title intro song a few days before the “Meddi Oli” serial aired. While the dance master is busy in the cinema. Then my friend Candas forced me to sing songs he had mastered. “It’s a sequence…okay.” But I agreed to dance and said I wouldn’t be wearing any accessories. First, the three dance as the main dancers. “I am your fan,” says Thirumurugan, the show’s director. So, only you should dance as the main dancer. “The shooting of the song “Ammi Ammi Ammi Mithitu…Arundhati Mogham Bhetu” was completed in just one night.”
- Shanthi admires Tamil film and TV series director Thirumurugan. Shanthi said about him in an interview:
The two-horse show and dance masters are going well. No matter how high I go, I will always be grateful to director Thirumurugan sir. ”
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