Asin Thottumkal

Early Life
Asin Thottumkal was born on October 26, 1985 in Kochi city of Kerala in India to Joseph Thottumkal and Seline Thottumkal. She did her schooling from Naval Public School till highschool and then intermediate from St. Teresa's School. She completed her graduation from St. Joseph College (Women) in B.A. (Literature). Her father is a businessman while mother is a surgeon.
Film Career
Asin started his career in 2001 as a supporting artist in Malaya film Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka when she was only 15. She won her first South Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the telugu film Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi. That was her first film as an actress. Many films followed, various offers from south started coming her way and she did her best to prove her acting skills.
Her second film fetched another Best Actress Award for Ghajini (Tamil) in 2005. She also appeared in M. Kumaran son of Mahalakshmi, Majaa, Sivakasi and Varalaru. In Ghajini she played a model named Kalpana opposite Surya and her role was described as “magical”. In 2007 she did Aalwar and Pokkiri of which only later was a hit. Asin biggest film till date is Dasavathaaram with Kamal Hasan. In the movie she played a double role and won ITFA Best Actress Award.
Asin made her Bollywood debut in 2008 in Ghajini which was a remake of the Tamil film with the same name. She played a lead role opposite Amir Khan. The movie became the highest grosser film of the year and is still the 4th highest grosser of all time. She portrayed the role of a artist in an advertising company, a girl full of confidence and is a total chatterbox. She won four awards for the film including the prestigious Filmfare Award for best debut female.
Her second Bollywood venture was London Dream with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan. The movie was a total failure. She was offered four more Bollywood movies opposite top actors but rejected all of them to appear in Tamil movie Kaavalan.
In 2011 she appeared in another Bollywood movie Ready opposite Salman Khan. The movie opened to mammoth response and viewers loved every bit of it. The movie became the second highest grosser of all time after Dabbangg and collected 100 crores at Box Office.
Tamil Actress Asin quotes
“Love is to extend oneself to nurture the alround devolopement of another as a person”
“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing but we have to attribute meaning to it”
Asin quotes
“I Love to be simple”
“I hate dishonesty, the most”
“My first preference is the story and then my character. Next importance goes to directors and finally to the hero of the movie. As I was able to take decisions clearly, I achieved such popularity within a short period.”

Biography / Biodata

Awards & Achievements
Asin has won awards in all the categories of language films in Indian Film Industry. Some of her awards include:
Filmfare Best Telugu Actress Award (Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi)
Filmfare Best Tamil Actress Award Ghajini (Tamil)
Best Debut(Female) Award Ghajini (Hindi)
Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow (Ghajini)
IIFA Star Debut Award for Ghajini
Most Promising Newcomer (Ghajini)
Some of her achievements include:
Kalaimamani Award
Santosham Best Actress Award (Sivamani)
ITFA Best Actress Award (Dasavathaaram) 

2011 READY Salman Khan, Asin, Arya Babbar, Paresh Rawal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Akhilendra Mishra, Puneet Issar, Manoj Joshi, Sudesh Lehri, Arbaaz Khan, Zarine Khan, Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Kangna Ranaut, Manoj Pahwa, Sharat Saxena

2010 ALLAH KE BANDAY Atul Kulkarni, Anupam Kher, Anjana Sukhani, Sharman Joshi, Naseeruddin Shah, Rukhsar, Zakir Hussain, Saksham Kulkarni, Suhasini Mulay, Vikram Gokhale

2010 YEH FAASLEY Anupam Kher, Pavan Malhotra, Rushad Rana, Tena Desae, Seema Biswas, Satyajit Sharma, Kiran Kumar, Suhasini Mulay

2009 LONDON DREAMS Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn, Asin Thottumkal, Om Puri, Brinda Parekh, Rannvijay Singh, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Manoj Pahwa

2009 MERE KHWABON MEIN JO AAYE Arbaaz Khan, Raima Sen, Randeep Hooda, Suhasini Mulay, Anjan Shrivastava, Juhi Pandey, Neil Bhoopalam, Ashwini Kalsekar, Shubhi Mehta, Siddharth Coutto, Sudipto Balwa

2009 DASHAVTAR Kamal Hassan, Mallika Sherawat, Asin

2009 RANG RASIYA Nandana Sen, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sachin Khedekar, Darshan Jariwala, Prroshant Narayannan, Tom Alter, Vipin Sharma, Chirag Vohra, Gaurav Dwivedi, Randeep Hooda, Vikram Gokhale, Rajat Kapoor, Jim Boeven, Suhasini Mulay, Sri Vallabh Vyas, Rachna Shah, Ferena Wazeir, Tripta Parashar

2008 MY FRIEND GANESHA 2 Bhairavi Goswami, Harsh Chhaya, Upasna Singh, Sulabha Deshpande, Suhasini Mulay, Kurush Deboo, Shiva Rindan, Sanjay Swaraj, Manoj Joshi

2008 JODHAA AKBAR Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Sonu Sood, Punam S. Sinha, Raza Murad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Suhasini Mulay, Ila Arun, Rajesh Vivek, Pramod Moutho, Surendra Pal, Visswa Badola, Pramatesh Mehta, Shaji Choudhary, Manava Naik, Disha Vakani, Abeer Abrar, Indrajit Sarkar, Aman Dhaliwal, Nikitin Dheer

2008 HOPE AND A LITTLE SUGAR Mahima Choudhary, Suhasini Mulay, Vikram Chatwal, Amit Sial, Anupam Kher, Ranjit Choudhary, Vinny Cuevas, Shilpa Guha, Nicoye Banks, Paul Barry, Neil Daly, Hugh Dillon, Trevor Frontin, James Gaspard, Jason Mersell, Anita Michaels, Frank Molina, Philip Murphy, Josette Stanton

2008 GHAJINI Aamir Khan, Asin Thottumkal, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat, Khalid Siddiqui

2007 MP3 - MERA PEHLA PEHLA PYAAR Hazel, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Kawaljeet Singh, Menekka Arora, Rinku Patel, Manoj Pahwa, Neelu Kohli, Gaurav Gera, Ashish Roy, Vijay Gokhale, Sarthak Bhasin, Vikas Vasu, Dinesh Garg, Mandira Singh

2006 YUN HOTA TO KYA HOTA Paresh Rawal, Konkona Sen Sharma, Irfan Khan, Karan Khanna, Sameer Shaikh, Ankur Khanna, Arshad Warsi, Rajat Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Suhasini Mulay, Ravi Vaswani, Tinu Anand, Saroj Khan, Imaad Shah, Boman Irani, Shahana Goswami

2005 SEHAR Arshad Warsi, Mahima Choudhary, Pankaj Kapur, Suhasini Mulay, Sushant Singh