It was very rare to see both the sisters in the same movie after their early years in Tamil. Ambika and Radha were both very selective about taking up roles in Tamil movies once they became successful, rejecting many offers and only pairing with top actors and directors. Ambika acted in more Kannada and Malayalam movies, quickly getting to the top-two spots in both markets. They used the Tamil movie industry to launch their careers but spent only a minority of time in Tamil once their success and fame spread across the south. Ambika and Radha managed their careers very carefully, seldom directly competing in the same turf. They put up electrifying performances that easily overshadowed even Kamal Hasan, the senior actor paired opposite them. The two sisters were at the zenith of their beauty and fame when they acted in Kadhal Parisu. They acted together in films like Enkeyo Ketta Kural, Kadhal Parisu, Anna Nagar Mudhal Theru, Idhaya Kovil and Vellai Roja. Her sister Ambika is also a very popular actress. After Muthal Mariyathai, she got a number of challenging roles including in movies like Nyaya Tharasu. Radha was cast a movie opposite Sivaji Ganesan. Her major break came from her mentor Bharathiraja. Her close friend and mentor, actress Suhasini Maniratnam helped her in improving her makeup and took special care by voluntarily opting to hairdress Radha whenever they acted together. She then starred in a number of Kamal Hassan movies like Oru Kaithiyin Diary, Thoongathey Thambi Thoongathey, Kathal Parisu and Jappanil Kalyanaraman. Tik Tik Tik played a significant role in her career. Radha played a small role in Tik Tik Tik, a Kamal Haasan starrer. She played a powerful role as a second wife of Mohan and matched the national award winner Suhasini (who played the first wife) in this movie. Gopurangal Saivathillai proved her acting talents. Radha started her career with Bharathiraja's Alaigal Ooivathilai.
Radha was spotted by director Bharathiraja and was cast as a teenager in Alaigal Oivathillai in 1981 opposite newcomer Karthik. Her daughter Karthika Nair started her career as an actress with the Telugu film Josh and went on to do Makaramanju and Ko. They also own a restaurant in the UK named "Rock and Role Kitchen" (RRK). For the past 20 years they have owned a chain of restaurants in Mumbai and two hotels called UDS in Kovalam at Kerala, which have won the best coastal beach resort award.
Nair, son Vignesh Nair, daughters Thulasi Nair and Karthika Nair have settled in Mumbai. Radha hails from Kallara near kilimanoor in Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. She has acted in over 200 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She has acted in numerous movies with top actors of the South Indian cinema such as Sivaji Ganesan, Balakrishna, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan, Venkatesh, Prabhu, Vijayakanth, Karthik Muthuraman, Karthik, Krishna and Sathyaraj.
Tamil Serial Actress Hot Photos Biographyĭaya Chandrika, better known by her screen name Radha (Malayalam: രാധ born 3 October 1965) is an Indian actress popular in the 80s and early 90s.