Archana Sharma
{{Short description|Indian actress}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
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| birth_place = Bangalore, Karnataka, India
| other_names = Ayshickka Sharma
| occupation = Actress, model
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| yearsactive = 2008—2020
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Archana Sharma, also credited as Ayshickka Sharma, is an Indian actress and model, who appears in Kollywood and Tollywood films. She made her acting debut in Thozhi (2009). She is currently pursuing her MBA from ISBR Chennai.
Career
Sharma hails from Bihar. She was born in Bangalore and lived in Mumbai before she came to Chennai.{{cite web |url=http://www.cinegoer.net/telugu-cinema/interviews/interview-with-ayshickka-sharma-251211.html |title=Ayshickka Sharma | Actress Ayshickka Sharma | RP Patnaik Facebook | Sarathkumar - Interviews |publisher=CineGoer.com |date=25 December 2011 |access-date=8 September 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130908185752/http://www.cinegoer.net/telugu-cinema/interviews/interview-with-ayshickka-sharma-251211.html |archive-date=8 September 2013 |url-status=dead }} Before she became an actress, she did modelling. She has done over forty commercials, which include ads for Francis Alukkas jewellery and textiles in Chennai and Kerala, RmKV, Univercell mobiles, City Union Bank and Pigeon cooker.{{cite web|url=http://businessoftollywood.com/2011/10/ayshickka-sharma/ |title=Ayshickka Sharma Interview |publisher=Business of Tollywood |date=22 October 2011 |access-date=8 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201033205/http://businessoftollywood.com/2011/10/ayshickka-sharma/ |archive-date=1 December 2013 }}
She completed her engineering in computer science from Saveetha Engineering College, Thandalam, Chennai.
She is trained in martial arts and has received the black belt. She is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She is doing her MBA from ISBR Chennai.
She was introduced by director Elango Lakshmanan in the Tamil film Thozhi (2009).{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/cp/2009/05/22/stories/2009052250090300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525150728/http://www.hindu.com/cp/2009/05/22/stories/2009052250090300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2009 |title=Cinema Plus / Columns : Bihar beauty |date=22 May 2009 |work=The Hindu |access-date=8 September 2013}} She later acted in S. A. Chandrasekhar's Veluthu Kattu{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/new-songs-new-faces/article447248.ece |title=New songs, new faces |work=The Hindu|date=6 June 2010 |access-date=8 September 2013}} and with Jai Akash in Othigai.{{cite web|author=s.r. ashok kumar |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-cinemaplus/the-end/article2309323.ece |title=The end |work=The Hindu|date=31 July 2011 |access-date=8 September 2013}} She made her Tollywood debut with R. P. Patnaik's Friends Book.{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/malayalam/news-and-interviews/Ayshickka-to-make-her-M-Town-debut/articleshow/19006048.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519171041/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-17/news-and-interviews/37786616_1_m-town-debut-tinsel-town-debut-mollywood |url-status=live |archive-date=19 May 2013 |title=Ayshickka to make her M-Town debut|date=17 March 2013 |work=The Times of India |access-date=8 September 2013}} She will make her Malayalam debut with Second Innings. She acts as Parvathy Maria Columbus who is in love with Manu Madhav, played by Rajeev Pillai.{{cite web|author=Vijay George |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/turning-a-new-leaf/article4605811.ece |title=Turning a new leaf |work=The Hindu|date=11 April 2013 |access-date=8 September 2013}} While shooting a song at Peermade, she and her co-star Rajeev Pillai almost fell off a cliff.{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/malayalam/news-and-interviews/The-actual-stunts-that-we-do-involve-more-risks/articleshow/19835119.cms |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130908193838/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-03/news-and-interviews/39007779_1_rajeev-pillai-aishika-film-crew |url-status=live |archive-date=8 September 2013 |title=The actual stunts that we do involve more risks|date=3 May 2013 |work=The Times of India |access-date=8 September 2013}}
Filmography
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| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Language ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes | ||||
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| 2009 | Thozhi | Saranya | Tamil | Credited as Dwaraka |
| rowspan="2"|2010 | Puzhal | Rita | Tamil | |
| Veluthu Kattu | Janani | Tamil | ||
| rowspan="3"|2011 | Amsaveni | Tamil | ||
| Oththigai | Nazarath | Tamil | ||
| Ramanathapuram | Tamil | |||
| rowspan="3"|2012 | Nischhala | Telugu | ||
| Friends Book | Nithya | Telugu | ||
| Mango | Telugu | |||
| 2013 | Second Innings | Parvathy Maria Columbus | Malayalam | |
| 2020 | Veer Yodhara Mahabali | Archana | Bhojpuri |
References
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Category:Actresses in Tamil cinema
Category:Actresses in Telugu cinema
Category:21st-century Indian actresses
Category:Actresses from Bengaluru
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Category:Actresses in Malayalam cinema
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