Sonia Malhar

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sonia Malhar

• Sonia Malhar’s early career was as an insurance agent. One of her acquaintances during this time, a film camera operator, was instrumental in her entry into the film industry as a junior artist in 2012.

• Since the mid-2000s, she has worked actively as a social activist focusing on education, health care and poverty-stricken areas.

  

• She is the patron of the Kerala Blind Association (KBA), an NGO formed in 2007 for the welfare of the blind headquartered in Kozhikode, Kerala.

  

• She is also the director of the NGO, National Charity Development Board (NCDB) which is run by the Kerala Blind Association (KBA).

• She received a doctorate in Social Work in 2018 honouring her years of social activism.

  

• Some of the other films she acted in were Kidney Biriyani (2015), Utharam Parayathe (2017), Sthree Sthree (2019), and Rhithum – Beyond the Truth (2024).

  

• Until she founded a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Global Peace Authority, headquartered in New Delhi in 2022, she funded various social services through the commission she received from selling insurance and the remuneration she received as an actress or for appearing in public functions.

• In August 2024, after the release of the Justice Hema Committee Report which studied the sexual harassment and gender inequality issues in the Malayalam film industry, Sonia Malhar revealed her harassment experience that happened in 2013 involving a young actor at a film shooting in Thodupuzha, Kerala.

• She was unwilling to reveal the actor’s name for the sake of the person’s family.