Anna Ben
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Anna Ben | 27
Actor
The moment she finished her first shot before the camera for her debut film Kumbalangi Nights (2019), Anna Ben made up her mind that she’ll act. “The joy and satisfaction it gave me… I have never felt it before. I realised this is what I really want to do. And I have not looked back,” says the 27-year-old, who is regarded as one of the promising actors of Malayalam cinema.
The conviction must have been strong enough for the fashion and apparel design graduate to take that call. By her own admission, she was clueless in that phase, though she loved art. After working in Bengaluru for a while, Anna Ben returned to her hometown, Kochi, in Kerala, to complete her master’s. It was then that she randomly responded to a casting call on Instagram with her photos and “forgot about it”.
(This story appears in the 10 February, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)