Asin Thottumkal nickname Queen of Kollywood born on Oct 26, 1985 is an award-winning Indian film actress from the state of Kerala. Currently , she is considered to be one of the most popular actresses in the South Indian film industry. Asin has also a promising start of her career in Bollywood in the Aamir Khan Ghajini.

Asin was born on October 26, 1985 into a Roman Catholic, Syrian Christian family in Kochi , Kerala. Her father, Joseph Thotumkal managed several businesses and was considered a prominent entrepreneur. Her mother, Seline Thottumkal, remains a surgeon despite moving settlements from Cochin to Chennai to Mumbai to live with her daughter. Asin has quoted that her name means “without blemish and pure”.

She is a native of Kerala state and obviously her mother tongue is Malayalam, but that is not the only language she speaks. She can easily handle multiple languages like Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English, Sanskrit and even French. She loved acting and modeling ever since she was a child. As a child, her parents saw enormous potential in her for she was talented and pretty.

Asin parents were very supportive and before long she was into modeling. For a short span of time, she even tried to do a business with her father at the age of 14.

Asin studied literature in St. Teresa’s college, Kochi. During this time she made her entrance to Malayalam movies and made several cameo appearances. These include movies like “Narendra Makan Jayakanthan Vaka”. She has also done modeling and appeared in several television shows. Soon she realized that staying in Kerala is not going to help her much. She was desperate; she wanted to follow her dream of being a big actress. For more information see here

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