Anju Kurian – South Indian film actress of ‘Kavi Uddheshichathu’ fame

Anju Kurian is a Malayalam film actress who started working in the industry in 2013. During her initial days she worked with Nivin Pauley in a series of movies in supporting roles. She played Nivin’s sister role in her debut flick Neram and also Premam. She also played a brief role in Ohm Shanthi Oshaana. All these three Nivin movies have been big hits at box office. She bagged her first lead role through Kavi Uddheshichathu in 2016 and played Fahad Fasil’s love interest, Shruti in Njan Prakasan.

Anju Kurian was born in Kottayam in 1993. She completed Architectural Engineering from Chennai. Then she did fashion designing course, and worked in the architecture field for a while before she got into movies. In 2013 she marked her debut with bilingual Neram directed by Alphonse Puthren. For the first three years she played supporting roles. Kavi Uddheshichathu in 2016 gave her a breakthrough in the industry. Chennai 2 Singapore marked her Tamil film debut in 2017 and Idam Jagat in Telugu film industry in 2018, both in lead roles. Jeem Boom Ba, July Kaatril, Naan Seidha Kurumbu, Jack & Daniel, Shibu etc are some of her latest projects. She played female lead in Dileep starrer Jack & Daniel.

Anju Kurian – Some interesting and less-known facts

1. She was camera shy during her childhood days and the only photos left were clicked back in school. Dubsmash and musical.ly videos changed this attitude in her.

2. She was an architect and fashion designer before becoming an actress.

3. This tall girl also had a career in modelling.

4. She played brief role in first two projects of budding directors – Alphonse Puthren, and the debut project of Jude Anthany Joseph. Interestingly Neram, Ohm Shanthi Oshaana and Premam were her first three releases all starring Nivin Pauley. These three movies proved lucky to both the directors as well as the lead actor.

5. She was casted as Nivin Pauley’s sister by Alphonse Puthren in Neram and Premam.

6. She played Vineeth Srinivasan’s love interest (who marries him at the climax) and Nazriya’s friend in Ohm Shanthi Oshaana.

7. She appeared in three Tamil music videos – Kure Kure, Classmates –Kadhalikuren and Neeye Neeye, all released in 2018.

8. She is a self-made person, and uses her personal earned money to buy what she wants. She just make note of her favourite things, and purchases them when money comes in hand.

9. She is an entrepreneur who has recently started food business in Chennai, where she lives now. Her kitchen supplies only diet food.

10. She is a foodie and loves travelling too.