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Amala Paul

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A Tamil and Malayalam lead since Neelathamara in 2009, with work in Telugu and Kannada besides. She won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress for Mynaa (2010), SIIMA Best Actress (Malayalam) for Run Baby Run and again for Oru Indian Pranayakadha, and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress (Malayalam) for Mili. Vettai, Velaiilla Pattadhari, Ratsasan, The Goat Life and Level Cross are the titles most people know her by. What earns her a page here is a particular kind of off-duty dressing: long, loose, handwoven Indian separates in flat colour with one piece of wit in them, worn with flat slides rather than heels — clothes that read as comfort first and still photograph as a look.