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Years active
  
2007 - present

Name
  
Lakshmi U.Menon

Born
  
September 2, 1991 (age 33) (
1991-09-02
)
Thrissur, Kerala, India

Occupation
  
Television Anchor, Modelling, singer

Lakshmi Menon (born September 2, 1991) is a lnfamous Malayalam television anchor and stage show presenter in South India and currently hosting the popular reality show "Mylanchi " on Asianet.

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Career

Radio Jockey, She started her career as an RJ in Red FM in 2007

Video Jockey, Lakshmi started her career as a VJ from a cable channel in Thrissur and later selected to host programmes in Jeevan TV (2008) School time which was a programme for school children to showcase their talents and Its "Really Tasty" which was a cookery show specialised in south Indian cruisin. Lakshmi also hosted Onam special programme in Amrita TV which was named as "Campus Onakkalam", "Chit chat" in WE TV where she interviewed leading actors and actresses of south India, "Dew drops (2009)" in WE TV, which was a popular Malayalam television, Live phone-in-programme which laid a milestone in her career as an anchor.

Reality shows :- She also hosted famous reality shows in leading Malayalam channels.

  • "Tharolsavam" (2012) in Kairali TV
  • "Patturumal – Music, Dance & Fusion" in Kairali TV (won Kerala state television award for best entertainment show 2012)
  • "Kuttipatturumal" (won Kerala state television award for best entertainment show 2013) which was a popular musical reality show for kids (Kairali TV).
  • "Mylanchi" (2014) a musical reality show in Asianet which was more popular in Muslim populated areas and Middle East.

    • Stage Events :- She has hosted many Stage shows in South india, Abu Dhabi and Doha.

  • Interviewed south Indian celebrities in 17th Ujala Asianet Film Awards 2014.
  • Hosted "Ujala Asianet television Awards" 2015
  • Anchored Kairali TV Christhumas mega event X mas Gala 2013 at Thiruvalla.
  • Hosted musical stage show in Angamaly Carnival with south Indian singer Naresh Iyer.
  • Anchored Coimbatore Carnival where celebrities from film industry were present, "Mega show" Kairali TV musical event
  • Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Foundation Society Award Night with Dr K. J. Yesudas and other musical legends.
  • Asianet television awards 2014
  • Asianet television awards 2015
  • Asianet television awards 2016
  • Red fm Malayalam music awards 2016

    • Biography

    Lakshmi was born in Thrissur to Unni Menon and Bindu Unnikrishnan. She was raised and studied in IES Chittilapilly, Thrissur. In 2009 she joined Christ College, Irinjalakuda for B A Functional English and later joined ELIMS for her Master of Business Administration in Thrissur, specialised in Marketing and Human Resource. She stated that her father was so particular about her academics as well as career and her mother always accompanies her for shows irrespective of distance and time. She has also learned Classical music from the age of seven and achieved so many prizes in "acting", "monoact", and music competitions in Kerala School Kalolsavam. All this helped this multitalented girl to build up her career.

    Achievements

    1. She was crowned Miss Thrissur in 2007.
    2. She won Kalathilakam in 2008.
    3. Best Anchor Award (Thrissur) in 2008
    4. got removed from the post of principal, Law Academy, Trivandrum, Kerala as misutlised the post, racist actions, biased and skewed approaches towards students, favourismn shown towards would be daughter in law student, allowing her to interfere in day to day administrative activities, sexiest comments towards students and excess body show in her TV programmes, etc.

    References

    Lakshmi U. Menon Wikipedia
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