Soundarya Bala Nandakumar

In 2010, Soundarya made her television debut as a contestant in Super Singer 3.^[1][2] She debuted as a singer with the film 6 Meluguvarthigal (2013).^[3] In 2015, she debuted as one of the lead actress in the television series Pagal Nilavu after the makers of the series saw her performance in Super Singer. She garnered acclaim for her role as Revathy in the series, which went on to run for almost 700 episodes.^{[1][2][4][5][6]} In 2016, she took part in the Super Singer 5 Mini Series.^[7] Soundarya was featured singing "Thendral Vanthu" in Kabali (2016). She had previously sung that song on Super Singer.^[8] Her next song was "Kalavani" in Kodiveeran, which she co-sang with VV Prasanna. In The Times of India review of the film's soundtrack, the reviewer wrote that "A folk duet, Prasanna and Soundarya shine in this one".^[9] She later starred with Vignesh Karthick, her Pagal Nilavu co-star in the short film Yours Shamefully, which became viral upon release.^[10] The team of the upcoming Master saw the short and subsequently signed Soundarya to play a role in the film.^[8]

In 2018, Syed Anwar and Sameera Sherief left Pagal Nilavu. Soundarya told The Times of India how she influenced the makers of the series to give her more screen time.^[12] Later that year, Soundarya and Vignesh Karthick left the series as it was hard to continue the series without two of the main characters.^[6][13]

• All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.

Films

Short films