Divya Pillai; Dubai’s homegrown talent who is making a name for herself in Malayalam Cinema

Pillai’s big break was in 2015 when she starred in her first film Ayal Njanalla

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Sonia Shah, Senior Visual Journalist and Mariam M. Al Serkal, Associate Editor
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Divya Pillai, who was born and raised in the UAE, worked in Human Resources for cabin crew recruitment at Emirates and assumed that she would remain in the airline industry well into her career. But fate had different plans. 

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