This Day That Year: ‘Nam Areali Ondina’ was released in 2010, introducing Meghana Gaonkar to Sandalwood; actress reminisces the days

Today is an important day in the career of Simple Star Rakshit Shetty and Meghana Gaonkar as both the stars made their acting debuts with the movie ‘Nam Areali Ondina’ which was released on this day 10 years back. ‘Nam Areali Ondina’ was an action movie starring Anish Tejeswar, Meghana Gaonkar and

Rakishit Shetty

in lead roles, and was directed by

Arvind Kaushik

. The movie’s team started shooting in 2008, took 2 years to complete, shot with a lot of struggles and finally released the film in 2010.

Meghana shared her happiness on social media and said, “10 years of 'ನಮ್ ಏರಿಯಾಲ್ ಒಂದಿನಾ', Thank you #AravindKaushik, You made this film with absolute madness & crazy struggles. I love this film & my character in it way more than I can express. Couldn’t have asked for a better role to prove myself as an actor in my debut itself!”


After this movie, Simple Star Rakshit Shetty, Meghana Gaonkar, Anish Tejeswar and director Arvind Kaushik became known faces in the

Kannada film industry

. Now, each of these artists have established themselves well in the industry over the last 10 years.