indian celebrities: Vinaya Prasad

Thursday 5 July 2012

Vinaya Prasad

Vinaya Prasad (Kannada: ವಿನಯಾ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್, (also credited as Vinaya Prakash) is a popular film and television actress in South India. She hails from Udupi. Vinaya made her film debut with a small role in G V Iyer’sMadhwacharya in 1988. She worked in smaller character roles before playing the leading lady in Ganeshana Maduve opposite Ananth NagShe starred in a few Malayalam films also before starring in the longest-running and most popular daily soap opera on Malayalam TV,Sthree which aired from late 1997 to mid 2000 on Asianet. The Kannada version of this serial was also made. The popularity of this soap made her a household name among Malayalis.In Tamil, Vinaya has acted as the heroine in the hit movie Thaikulame Thaikulame with Pandiyarajan and Urvasi. She starred in a supporting role in the all-time blockbuster Manichitrathazhu, which starred Mohanlal. In Telugu, Vinaya's movies include Indra, Donga Dongadi and Andhrudu for which her performance won a lot of praise.In 2006, she returned to the Malayalam small screen to reprise her role as Indu in the sequel to the original Sthree, also named, Sthree.