Malavika Avinash
Malavika Avinash (born 28 January 1972) is an Indian film actress and television host noted for her wide repertoire of work in Kannada and Tamil. She was a host for Baduku Jataka Bandi, a television show that aired on Zee Kannada.Malavika's canvass in Tamil includes devout Raji in the immensely popular Rajarajeshwari and K. Balachander's Nilavai Pidippom where she portrayed the travails of a middle-class working woman, Pudhuyugam, Pralayam and a hilarious "Comedy Colony" again under the able guidance of her mentor Balachander. She shook the spines of her male and female counterparts as Madurai Thilaka in Arasi and now a sober and emotional Muththazhagi in Chellamey. She has also played key roles in some select films in Tamil.Another milestone in Malavika's career has been her portrayal of Nanjamma, the protagonist in four-time national award winner Girish Kasaravalli's celluloid version of the eminent S.L. Bhyrappa's celebrated novel, Gruha Banga. In her decade of television acting, Malavika has played several roles in Tamil, Kannada and Hindi with great ease and wide critical acclaim. A cross-over film titled Cyanide, a story of the last 18 days that the late Rajiv Gandhi bombers spent in Bangalore, in which Malavika's well-researched portrayal of Shubha (an LTTE suicide bomber) won her critical acclaim. Apart from Manvantara for T.N.Seetharam, Malavika swayed the Kannada audiences with her cult figure like character of Madhavi Patel, IPS, in his 'Muktha'.
The legal side to Malavika has seen expression through many international moot courts that she has participated and won as a student, the student-editorship of her college journal, her association with Madhyam, a development communications organization, assistant-editorship of the Madhyam journal, a legal column that she co-ordinated for the Times of India and UDAYAVANI for two years, her Malavika Pakkam in Kumudam, a Tamil weekly, her 'Agony aunt' column for Kumudam and more recently, 'Malavika order', a weekly column in Vijaya Karnataka, leading Kannada daily. Malavika has also held the position of head of programming at Zee Kannada.
AGNI, a talk show that Malavika hosted on E-TV Kannada brought out the sensitive side to her which was followed later by Baduku Jataka Bandi and is presently a huge success on Zee Kannada. In Baduku Jataka Bandi, Malavika deals with the most pertinent problems of individuals using her skills as an anchor as well as an Advocate, thereby providing an Alternate Dispute Resolution forum for resolving family issues. She also discusses burning social issues on her show.
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