Kavya Shetty

Kavya Shetty

Kavya Shetty during Ishtakamya Shooting
Born Kavya M Shetty
June 10th
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality Indian
Other names Kavya M Shetty
Ethnicity Tulu
Occupation Actress,Model
Years active 2011–present
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1]
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)[1]

Kavya Shetty is an Indian film actress and model. Starting her career as a fashion model, she took part at the 2011 Femina Miss India beauty pageant. She went on to work as a commercial model, before venturing into acting, debuting in the 2013 Kannada film Nam Duniya Nam Style directed by Preetham Gubbi.

Early life

Kavya was born into a Tulu-speaking Bunt family in Mangalore, Karnataka.[2] She is a Tuluva [3] and her parents are Manohar Shetty, an Economics Professor and Vasanthi Shetty, a retired bank employee. After doing her schooling in Mangalore, she graduated in Computer Science Engineering from N.M.A.M. Institute of Technology, Nitte in 2011.

Career

While in college,Kavya did a few modelling assignments following appearances in several television commercials,. She later moved to Bangalore and took part at the 2011 Femina Miss India beauty pageant,[2] winning the ‘Miss Photogenic’ title.[4] She was also a finalist at the Ford Super Model of the World – India contest held at New Delhi in 2011.[5][6] She was noticed by fashion guru Prasad Bidapa and subsequently walked the ramp for several designers, most notably at the ‘Blenders Pride Bangalore Fashion Week’ in 2011 and 2012 and Chennai International Fashion Week 2011.[7]

Besides catwalking at fashion shows, she worked as a commercial model and appeared in several print and television advertisements.[2] Few of her most notable endorsements in print are Reliance Jewels (2012), Malabar Gold (2012), Palam Silks (2011), Psr and Club Mahindra. Her television advertisements include Clinic Plus (2012), Toyota Altis (2011) and Santoor (2011).

In 2012, Kavya entered the Indian film industry. She first signed Shivani, a bilingual horror flick, made in Telugu and Tamil,[8] in which she played a journalist.[3] However, the delay of this film meant that Shetty's maiden release was the Kannada film Nam Duniya Nam Style (2013) by Preetham Gubbi.[4] While the film received mixed reviews, critics noted that Shetty had "given (a) lively performance" [9] and "show(n) tremendous promise".[10] Her future releases include the semi-period Kannada film Vijayaaditya.[2] She has also been cast as one of the female leads in A. L. Vijay's next Tamil film, that according to Shetty is a "fun-filled" romantic drama set against a college backdrop.[11]

Filmography

Year Film Role Language Notes
2013 Nam Duniya Nam Style Radha Kannada Released
2014 Shivani Mitra Tamil/Telugu Released
2014 Vijayaaditya Kannada Filming
2015 Idhu Enna Maayam Pallavi Tamil Released
2015 Zoom Sheela Kannada Post production
2016 Ishtakamya Aditi Kannada Post production
2016 Smile Please Manasa Kannada Filming

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