Sangita Madhavan Nair

She started her career as a child artiste in the Malayalam movie Snehikkan Oru Pennu, released in 1978. Her debut film as a child artist in Tamil was En Rathathin Rathame (1989), which is the remake of Hindi movie Mr. India. The first film where she acted as a heroine was Ellame En Rasathan in 1995.

She is also well known for her role with actor Vijay's breakthrough film Poove Unakkaga (1996).

Subsequently, she starred in notable Tamil movies such as Kaalam Maari Pochu (1996), Alexander (1996), Vallal (1997), Pongalo Pongal (1997), Kalyana Vaibhogam (1997) and Ethirum Pudhirum (1999).

For her role in Malayalam satire film, Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala (1998), which was written and directed by Sreenivasan, she won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress.^[1]

She portrayed impactful characters such as Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava (1995), Manthrikumaran (1998), Pallavur Devanarayanan (1999), Saphalyam (1999), Vazhunnor (1999) and Crime File (1999).^[2]

In Kannada, she is known for the movies Yaare Neenu Cheluve (1998) and Yare Nee Abhimani (2000).^[3]

She makes her comeback after 14 years in Nagara Varidhi Naduvil Njan (2014) with Sreenivasan. Sangita has made a comeback to the silver screen with a strong character named Devi in Chaaver (2023).^[4] After 25 years, Sangita returns to Tamil cinema with Bharath’s Kaalidas 2.^[5]

She was born as the youngest among four children, to Madhavan Nair from Kottakkal, Malappuram and mother, Padma from Kuzhalmannam, Palakkad, settled in Chennai. Her father migrated to Chennai for fruit business and the family settled there. She had her primary education from Sri Gujarati Vid Matriculation School, Chennai.^[6] She has two sisters, Mallika and Charu and a brother, Nitheesh.^[7]

She married cinematographer S. Saravanan in 2000 and retired from acting after marriage. The couple have a daughter Saai Thejaswathy born in 2002. She assisted her husband when he directed his first film, Silambattam starring Silambarasan, Sana Khan and Sneha.^{[citation needed]}