If you have been online in the past 72 hours you would have definitely come across this new internet sensation Priya Prakash Varrier, the debut from the Malayalam song Manikya Malaraya Poovi from the film Oru Adaar Love. The youtube video is still trending at number 1 and her Instagram account has garnered a whopping 1.3 million followers in one day and her clip has gone viral beyond borders in countries Egypt, and Pakistan.
An 18-year-old, first-year B.Com student of Vimala College, Thrissur it is not reported by The News Minute that the parents have decided to send the girl to hostel owing to stupendous fame overnight! TNM reported that Priya’s Mother, Preetha as saying, “The director has told us strictly not to give any interviews,” she says. “He has said she’s to give interviews only after the film releases. The film has just started and they’ve shot only a little bit. I’ve sent her to the hostel because of all this noise.”

“We never expected this to happen,” Preetha adds. “We never thought much about it. She had a desire and so we took her to an audition. She’d gone for another audition last year called by the same team when she was a Class XII student and they’d selected her for that film as well – but the shooting was during the board exams. So she couldn’t go for it. They’d said then itself that she should come the next time there’s a casting call.”

Reacting to the craze that Priya has become overnight, Preetha says, “It is very difficult. But what can we do? We can’t make anyone hate us by objecting. It will be seen differently.”

Pics of her modeling days have been doing the rounds: