K Mahashweta is a Malayalam child actress who came to recognition after she bagged Best Child Actress Award at the Las Vegas Movie Awards 2020 for her role in the Malayalam short film titles “Grandma Toy.” She has also won international Best Child Actor award last year in 2019.
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K Mahashweta was born in 2010 (age 10 years; as of 2020) in Angeripalayam, Tirupur. As of 2020, she is a student at MGV Global Academy ICSE School in Tirupur district of Tamil Nadu. Since the age of 4, she enjoyed watching films, singing, and dancing, and therefore developed her interest in acting. She used to watch movies in multiple languages – Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam and used imitate different scenes from the movie in front of her parents.
Mahashweta with her sister after performing in a school play
Family
Her father P.U. Krishnan is a film producer who has produced four of her short films. She has a sister of her age. There is not much information available abut her family.
K Mahashweta’s father P U Krishnan
Mahashweta with her sister
Career
Mahashweta started her acting career by acting in the Malayalam short film titled Aaroduparuyum “To Whom Should I Tell,” released in 2019. In this film, she played the role of a little girl child who craved for love and attention from her busy parents and could not find someone to express her problems.
In 2020, she acted in another Malayalam short film, “Grandma Toy,” wherein she played the role of an orphaned girl who helps senior citizens at an old age home.
A still from the movie “To Whom Should I Tell” showing Mahashweta helping an old lady
So far till 2020, she has acted in four Malayalam short films. Out of those four movies, she has won international Best Child Actress awards for her role in two of them.
Awards/Honour
- Best Child Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role as “Miya” in the Malayalam short film titled Aarodu Paruyum “To Whom Should I Tell.” (2019)
Mahashweta with her LAFA 2020 Best Child Actress award
- Best Child Actress at the Las Vegas Movie Awards 2020 for her role in the Malayalam short film titled “Grandma Toy.”
Mahashweta with her Las Vegas Best Child Actress Award
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