

She has said that she initially wished to become a journalist, but ultimately found journalism unappealing, so she pivoted to filmmaking, and enrolled in a cinematography course at the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune. She was educated at Poorna Prajna School and Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. Menen cannot read or write Malayalam and identifies herself as a Kannadiga. Nithya Menen was born on 8 April 1988 in Bangalore to Malayali parents settled in Karnataka. She has played leading roles in Malayalam in Aakasha Gopuram (2008), in Telugu in Ala Modalaindi (2011), in Tamil with Nootrenbadhu (2011), and in Hindi in Mission Mangal (2019).

She started her acting career at the age of 17 by appearing in a supporting role in the Kannada film 7 O' Clock, which was released in 2006. Nithya Menen appeared first on-screen as a child, when she was ten, in the English film, Hanuman (1998), playing the younger sister to Tabu's character. Nithya Menen (born 8 April 1988) is an Indian actress and singer who has acted in more than 55 feature films and in six different languages: Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and English.
