She next played a supporting role as the sister to Cheran's character in Mysskin's mystery thriller Yuddham Sei. In 2010, she starred in a Tamil film Padagasalai and signed up four more Tamil films, all of which were cancelled or remain unreleased. She also played a pivotal role in Rajesh Touchriver's short feature The Sacred Face, which focusses on child abuse. Biju, Dalamarmarangal (2009) and Umma (2011), both directed by Vijayakrishnan. Ineya won the Miss Trivandrum title in 2005, following which she did modeling and appeared in several television advertisements as well as a number of Malayalam award-winning art films, including Saira (2006), directed Dr. While studying in class four, she acted in the telefilm Koottilekku, which was followed by appearances in tele-serials Orma and Sree Guruvayoorappan by Vayalar Madhavan Kutty.

Ineya acted in several Malayalam television series, short films and telefilms as a child artist. She did her B.B.A course by correspondence. Ineya had her primary education at Thiruvananthapuram from Amritha Vidyalaya, Fort Girls Mission High School and Manakkad Karthika Thirunnal High School. She has an elder sister, Swathi, who is also a Malayalam television actress and a younger brother, Sravan. S and Savithri at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Ineya, whose real name is Shruti Sawant was born to Salahuddin. She won the Best Actress Award for her role in the Tamil film Vaagai Sooda Vaa (2011) at TN state awards.

Shruti Sawant better known by her stage name Ineya, is an Indian actress from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, who predominantly appears in Malayalam and Tamil films.

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