{"id":1990,"date":"2014-06-01T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T10:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T10:19:56","slug":"tamil-actress-monika-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/tamil-actress-monika-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Actress Monika Reverts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Monika.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1991\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Monika.jpg\" alt=\"Monika\" width=\"235\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>The popular Tamil film actress Monika who is known for her films like Azhagi and Silanthi has Reverted to Islam and her new name is M G Rahima. The actress has acted in more than 70 films as heroine and child artist.<br \/>\nMonika\u2019s parents are Christians and the actress says hereafter she won\u2019t be acting in films. Monika also says that there is no selfishness in her decision to\u00a0Revert to Islam.<br \/>\nMonika started her career as a child artist in Avasara Police 100.<br \/>\nTamil fans couldn\u2019t see her role in on screen for the years. She conducted press meet at RKV Studio where she said, \u201cI was started my career in cinema from child artist, completed 70 films in Cinema Industry. I have done with your full support. The word thanks word is not enough for your affections\u201d.<br \/>\nShe added, \u201cI don\u2019t convert for the reason of love or money, am not such a person. I like Islam principles so that I converted as an Islam. I will intimate about my marriage to media once arranged by parents and I really thanks to my dad cause of his full support. I am not convinced to change my name but I have changed my name is M.G.Raheema (M \u2013 Maruthi Raj (father), G-Gracy (mother)). Hereafter I won\u2019t act in the film, it gives some pain but I don\u2019t change my mind\u201d<br \/>\nThe actress added that she was planning to tie the knot, soon. The actress has issued her new photographs in Islamic Abaya.<br \/>\nMonika is the latest to join the bandwagon of those who converted to Islam, before her the Oscar winner musician AR Rahman and popular musician Yuvan Shankar Raja had also embraced Islam.<br \/>\nBelow is the video\u00a0 of her press meet in which she declared about her decision to adopt\u00a0 her new faith.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/tamil-actress-monika-converts-to-islam\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Tamil film actress Monika who is known for her films like Azhagi and Silanthi has Reverted to Islam and her new name is M G Rahima. The actress has acted in more than 70 films as heroine and child artist. Monika\u2019s parents are Christians and the actress says hereafter she won\u2019t be acting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}