Meena

Meena Durairaj is one of the most successful actresses in South Indian cinema. Meena was born on September 16, 1977, in Chennai. She became a heroine at a very young age of 13 while doing her 8th grade. She acted in some mature roles and that made her a very successful heroine.Meena started her career as a child artist in the film Nenjangal in 1982 when she was 5 years old featuring Dr Sivaji Ganesan in the lead role. She later became a heroine in 1990 at the age of 13 in the film Oru Pudhiya Kathai. Before that, she did a short role in the film Karthavyam which was dubbed as Vijayshanthi IPS in the same year.Meena was still very young at that time she was doing child roles. Her mother Rajamallika brought her to A.M.Ratnam's office for an offer. Even though she looked chubby, they felt she fitted the bill.She has acted with Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Chiranjeevi and later became a star in her own right. She had hits with films like Muthu, Ejaman, Veera , Avvai Shanmughi and Mutamestri.Following the release of her movies with Rajinikanth in Japan and their commercial success, Meena's popularity rose in Japan. She has acted in almost all the south Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada opposite almost all the leading actors.Meena acted as a married woman in a 1990 DD TV Serial (Anbulla Amma) with famous Tamil actresses.When the make up artist failed to turn up at a remote village in Kakinada during the movie shoot of "Bobbili Simham" in 1994, it is known that Roja Selvamani did Meena's hairstyles for those two days for a song involving Meena and was much appreciated by Meena herself.Roja Selvamani and Meena are best friends. Her another close friend is actress Maheswari. Roja and Meena, in their younger age, resembled each other so much. Infact, Meena has acted as Roja's younger sister atleast in 5 or 6 movies in Telugu.