Shanthi Aravind is an Indian dancer, choreographer and actor, known as “Metti Oli Shanthi” for his appearance in the Tamil language show ‘Metti Oli’.
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Shanthi Aravind was born on Sunday, 17 February 1980 (age 42 years; as in 2022) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In the 1990s, considering her family’s poor circumstances, she obtained a membership card of a dance association to work at an early age.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 7″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
Shanthi Aravind hails from a poor family in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Guardian
There is not much information about his parents. Shanti’s mother has been a single parent since she was a child.
Shanti Arvind with her mother
husband and children
In 2007, Shanti married Arvind. He has two children – a son and a daughter.
Shanti with her husband – photographed on the sets of a show
peace with your children
A family photo of Shanti Aravind – taken on Valentine’s Day
Religion
Shanti Aravind follows Hindu religion.
livelihood
dancer
film
According to Shanthi, she made her debut at the age of 13 as a group dancer with the Tamil song ‘Tadukhi Dethaki’ in the film “Kizhakku Vasal” (1990). She has danced to various songs in different languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
Television
In 2002, Shanthi Aravind first appeared on television in the Tamil language daily soap opera ‘Metti Oli’ which aired on Sun TV Tamil. She made her debut as a dancer in the title song of this television serial. In 2022, she appeared as a contestant on ‘Bigg Boss Tamil Season 6’, an Indian reality show.
Shanthi Aravind in ‘Bigg Boss Tamil Season 6’ (2022)
assistant dance master
At the age of 15, Shanti became an assistant dance master. According to Shanthi, she worked for many choreographers and choreographed songs in multiple languages including Hindi, Telugu and Tamil; However, he was never credited for his work.
choreographer
The first song choreographed by him was the Hindi version of the song ‘Jana Gana Mana’ from Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ayutha Ezhuthu’. Later, he choreographed songs for films like ‘Akkam’ (2017), ‘Mundrikakkadu’ (2018) and many others.
actor
In 2015, she appeared as Mangalasundari Karunakaran in a Tamil daily soap opera titled ‘Kula Deivam’ (2015–2018). Later, she got the opportunity to work in many other television series including ‘Kalyana Parisu’ (2018-2020) and ‘Kanna Kanne’ (2021).
Shanthi as ‘Lakshmi Arjun’ in a scene from the Tamil serial ‘Kalyana Parisu’
Shanthi as ‘Renuka’ in a scene from the Tamil serial Kanna Kanne (2021)
award
In 2022, Shanthi won the Ajanta TV Award.
Shanti Arvind holding the Ajanta TV Awards (2022)
Favorite
- Film: Thulladha Manamum Thulum (1999)
- Location: Chennai, Malaysia
Facts/General Knowledge
- According to Shanti Arvind, she had to face many rejections due to her thinness and dark complexion.
- In an interview, Shanti revealed that she used to wear multi-layered clothes and eat a lot to hide her thin look to some extent.
- In an interview, he recalled an instance of shooting a song when the song master slapped him for taking too many takes to complete the song. Shanti said,
During the shooting of a song, powder is falling on the faces of the dancers like bullets. I was sitting, not knowing whether it would fall into my eyes or not, when the powder fell on me. I’ll have to get another tag. So in anger the song master slapped me on my cheek in front of everyone. It took me a long time to control my crying. “I got stung by the ring…” My fellow dancers soothed me.
- In an interview, Shanthi revealed that she wanted to abort her second pregnancy as she was looking for more opportunities in her career after the break she took after the birth of her first child; However, her family did not support her decision at the time. He said,
I got married and took a break from cinema to take care of my first child. Then when I was looking for an opportunity, I became pregnant for the second time. I thought of disintegrating that fetus for cinema. But, the family did not agree.
- Her work in the Tamil serial ‘Metti Oli’ brought her fame after which she came to be known as ‘Metti Oli Shanthi’. Talking about the choreography and recording of the title track of ‘Metti Oli’ in an interview, Shanti said,
In 2002, we shot the title intro song a few days before the serial ‘Meddy Oli’ was aired. When the dance master was busy in cinema. Then my friend Kandas forced me to sing a song she had mastered. ‘It’s a serial song..ok. But I agreed to dance saying that I would not wear any accessories. At first there were three people dancing as main dancers. The director of that serial, Thirumurugan, said, ‘I am your fan. Therefore, you should dance as the main dancer. Only one night, the song ‘Ammi Ammi Ammi Mithitu…Arundhati Mogham Bhetu’ was shot.’
- Shanthi admires Tamil film and television series director Thirumurugan. Talking about him in an interview, Shanti said,
The double horse of acting and dance master is going very well. No matter how high I go, I will always be grateful to director Thirumurugan sir.
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