Career
Geetu"s actual name is Gayathri Mohandas. Affectionately called Geetu by her family, the name was adopted as her screen name when she starred in her first movie Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare in 1986 with Mohanlal in the lead role. Geetu was five years old then and captured the hearts of Malayalam filmgoers as a fatherless child who discovers a father in an anonymous telephone caller.
She acted in the top grosser En Bommukutty Ammavukku as the title role, which was the Tamil remake of Fazil"s Ente Mamattikkuttiyammakku (Malayalam) done by Baby Shalini in the title role.
Geetu"s first movie as an adult was Life is Beautiful starring Mohanlal in the lead. She went on to act in Thenkasi Pattanam, Valkannadi, Namma Thammil and several other Malayalam movies.
Geetu"s second directorial venture Liar"s Dice received its world premiere at 2013 Mumbai Film Festival and went on to screen at Sundance Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.