16 Facts About Namitha

Namitha Vankawala was born on 10 May 1981 and is a state executive member of the Bhartiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu.

Namitha started her career initially as an actress and model who predominantly works in Tamil and Telugu cinema along with a few films in Kannada and Malayalam.

Namitha went on to participate in the 2001 Miss India pageant and ended up as the third runner-up, while Celina Jaitley was crowned Miss India.

Namitha had briefly given herself the stagename of "Bhairavi" for the film, but later reverted to her original name.

Namitha appeared in a series of commercial action films opposite such actors, including roles in Aai, Chanakya and Aanai.

However, by the turn of the decade, Namitha's popularity began to decline after several of her films failed to perform well and the South Indian film industry moved away from casting women in outright glamorous roles, a character that Namitha had become famed for performing.

Namitha was relegated to increasingly smaller roles and guest appearances, while the big-budget horror film, Jaganmohini, where she played the title role performed poorly at the box office.