Malavika Avinash

Some Lesser Known Facts About Malavika Avinash

• Does Malavika Avinash smoke?: No

• Does Malavika Avinash drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Malavika Avinash was born into a Tamil family.

• At the age of just 5, she started learning dance and received her training in Bharatanatyam from “Krishnamurthy” and then from “Leela Samson.”

• She has also received her training to play the Sitar from “Pandit Partho Das.”

• At the age of 9, Malavika Avinash started acting as a child artist in Malayalam films.

• She was very good at studies, and she was ranked third in the ‘Bachelor of Laws’ degree at Bangalore University, Bengaluru.

• The film director & actor, G. V. Iyer, watched her dance performance as ‘Krishna,’ after which, he signed her as ‘Krishna’ in his Kannada film ‘Krishnaavataar’ (1988).

• Malavika has worked in various languages like Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil.

• In 1999, she campaigned for the BJP candidate “Sushma Swaraj” in Bellary, Karnataka.

• In September 2013, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and for almost five months, she travelled across 21 constituencies to campaign for BJP in Karnataka.

  

• In February 2014, Malavika was appointed as the co-spokesperson of BJP.

• She also campaigned for the 2014 general elections, local body, by-elections, and MLC elections, which includes the Nanjangud and Gundlupet by-elections.

• She worked with an ‘NGO Madhyam Foundation’ for approximately three years.

• Malavika Avinash has done campaigning for the BJP in various states of India like Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

• She has hosted several TV shows like ‘Agni,’ ‘Baduku Jataka Bandi,’ ‘Takadhimithaa,’ ‘Aradirali Belaku,’ etc.

• In 2013 & 2014, she judged a few episodes of the famous Kannada TV show ‘Mahaparva’ that was aired on ETV Kannada.

• In 2016, Malavika participated in the controversial reality TV show ‘Bigg Boss Kannada Season 4’ and was one of the top 5 finalists.

  

• She, along with her sister, Ranjani Ganesan Ramesh, has performed as a dancer at cultural festivals, events, and centres like Uttara Chidambaram, Pattadakkal festival, Hampi festival, Khujrajo festival, Chidambaram Natyanjali, etc.

• They organised a dance festival ‘Arudhra’ every year at Bangalore.

• Her husband “Avinash Yelandur” is 14 years older to her.