Bhavana was said to star with Emraan Hashmi and Amitabh Bachchan in a Bollywood film. Following the film's huge success, the film was dubbed into Telugu and Malayalam. In 2010, she starred in her first Kannada film alongside Puneeth Rajkumar, Jackie which was a blockbuster. Bhavana was an 11th Standard student when she got her break in the film. She won many honors and a Kerala State Special Jury Award for the film. The film was a big success and she got several offers in Malayalam.
Career Īt age 16, she debuted in the Malayalam film Nammal taking the stage name Bhavana opposite newcomers Sidharth Bharathan, Jishnu and Renuka Menon. As a five-year-old, she used to imitate actress Amala's scenes from the Malayalam film Ente Sooryaputhrikku in front of the mirror and was even willing to jump from a building and break her arm, like Amala's character, did in the film. She grew up with a dream to become an actress.
She did her schooling at Holy Family Convent Girls High School,Thrissur.īhavana has described herself as a restless person and someone who's 'hard to handle'. Bhavana was born as Karthika Menon on 6 June 1986 in Thrissur district, Kerala, as the daughter of Pushpa and assistant cinematographer G.
