Meena has acted in almost all the south Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada etc and opposite almost all the leading actors in these languages. Her first film as a child artist was ‘Nenjangal’ with Sivaji Ganesan. Meena was in the film industry as the top heroine in Telugu and Tamil for almost one and a half decades successfully from the early 1990s. Meena often potrayed characters with unidimensional personality with no negativity and shades of grey.
Meena was also known to be limited as a glamorous actress though Meena acted in a few glamourous roles like Maaman magal in Tamil opposite Sathyaraj and sneham kosan in Telugu opposite Megastar Chiranjeevi.
