Koena Mitra's reddish streak of passion!

Co-incidentally, whenever you ask Koena controversial questions, there are never any grey areas in her answers- she's always straight forward.
They say a house speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. Going by that logic, Koena Mitra is surely a very black and white personality - because everything in her house is in shades of black and white, often with a dash of red.
Co-incidentally , whenever you ask Koena controversial questions, there are never any grey areas in her answers- she's always straight forward. There's always that dash of red hot spice (read spicy quotes). No wonder she makes such great copy, right?

Meena is one of the most successful actress in South Indian cinema. Meena was born on September 16, 1981 in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu.

Meena started her career as a child artist in Telugu films and Tamil films. She acted with Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, and later became a star in her own right. She had hits with Muthu, Ejaman, Veera and Avvai Shanmughi. Following the release of her movies with Rajinikanth in Japan and their commercial success, Meena's popularity also rose in Japan. She has acted in almost all the south Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada etc and opposite almost all the leading actors in these languages. Her first film as a child artist was 'Nenjangal' with Sivaji Ganesan. She was in the film industry as the top heroine in Telugu and Tamil for almost one and a half decades successfully from the early 1990s.She often potrayed characters with unidimensional personality with no negativity and shades of grey.She was also known to be limited as a glamorous actress though she acted in a few glamourous roles like Maaman magal in Tamil opposite Sathyaraj and sneham kosan in Telugu opposite Megastar Chiranjeevi.

Meena has been romantically linked to Kannada actor Sudeep with whom she has acted in two movies Swathi Muthu and My Autograph in the last year and some news reports suggest that the two may be tying the knot soon.

As of 2007,she is no longer considered viable as a movie lead actress in any of the southern languages.She is currently starring as the lead in the Sun TV soap Shanthi.

Parents : Durai Raj and Rajmallika

Meena graduated in MA by distance education.

Manju Warrier (born on 10 September 1978) is an Indian actress specialising in Malayalam cinema. Manju was born in Kannur, Kerala.

She got married to fellow actor Dileep on 20 October 1998 at Alwaye Sri Krishna Temple They now have one child, Meenakshi. Her brother, Madhu Warrier, is also an actor.

She is considered to be one of the finest actresses ever appeared on the Malayalam screen. Her performance in Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu won a special mention from jury for national film awards.