Pooja Devariya
Pooja Devariya

Pooja Devariya

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Pooja Devariya is an Indian film and theatre actress who is known for her works in Tamil and Kannada films. After making her film debut with Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna (2012), she worked extensively in theatre with the Stray Factory, before returning to films in 2015.

Career

Pooja made her acting debut in Selvaraghavan's ''Mayakkam Enna'' (2011) portraying Padmini, a friend in Dhanush's gang. Pooja then joined the theatre group Stray Factory and has worked on stage performances and online videos with the company. Notably, she starred as Zorro in an interpretation of the ''The Three Musketeers'' in December 2012. in 2013, she mad her directorial debut was the play ''Maya from Madurai'' written by Naren Weiss.In 2015, she worked on the production of four films, including roles in Karthik Subbaraj's ''Iraivi'' and Manikandan's ''Kutramum Thandanaiyum''. In 2018, Pooja made her Kannada debut with the film ''Katheyondu Shuruvagide'', directed by Senna Hegde. She is half Kannadiga from her mother's side.Pooja worked with director Bharat Bala as a performance coach on Netflix’s anthology, ''Navarasa''. She has worked for Lokesh Kanagaraj’s 2022 Kamal Haasan starrer ''Vikram'', in which she was the performance coach for Vijay Sethupathi with particular emphasis on his body language for this role. Her association with Vijay Sethupathi has been a long one and she is his performance coach for both the upcoming Sriram Raghavan film ''Merry Christmas'' and Kishor Pandurang Belekar’s upcoming silent feature ''Gandhi Talks''.

Early life

Pooja Devariya was born on 29 July 1991, to Balu Namasivayam and Pushpa Devariya in Bengaluru, India. She also goes by the patronym, Pooja Balu. A big part of her formative years was spent in Abacus Montessori School, Chennai, to which Pooja credits her personality development and healthy curiosity. She is also a jazz and ballet dancer, having trained in Jeffery Vardon’s Hotshoe Dance Academy, alongside silambattam, a martial arts style from Tamil Nadu which she was trained in by Pandian Master, well-known trainer in Tamil film industry. In addition, she is an accomplished rower and is a National Rowing Medalist
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