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Anushka Biography
Anushka Shetty
Born Sweety Shetty
7 November 1981 (age 31)
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality Indian
Education Bachelor of Computer Applications
Occupation Actress
Years active
Sweety Shetty (born on 7 November 1981), better known by her stage name Anushka Shetty is an Indian film actress, who works for the South Indian film industry. She made her acting debut in the 2005 Telugu film Super and rose to fame following her performance in Vikramarkudu (2006) before foraying in Tamil Cinema.
She received high critical acclaim for her portrayal of the titular character in Arundhati and as Saroja in Vedam which fetched her two Filmfare, one Nandi and two CineMAA Awards. After starring in the Tamil blockbuster Singam (2010), her biggest commercial success, she became one of South India's most leading actresses.Anushka Shetty was born as Sweety Shetty on 7 November 1981 in Mangalore. Shetty is an ethnic Bunt hailing from the landed Bellipady Uramalu Guthu family.Her parents are Prafulla and A.N. Vittal Shetty.She has two brothers Gunaranjan Shetty and Sai Ramesh Shetty who is a cosmetic surgeon.She attended her schooling in Bangalore. She did her Bachelor of Computer Applications at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She was also a yoga instructor and has trained under yoga guru Bharat Thakur.
Early career (2005–2008)
Shetty made her acting debut in Puri Jagannath's 2005 Telugu film Super alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna. The same year, she acted in another film Mahanandi, which was a moderate success at box office. In 2006, she had four releases, the first being S. S. Rajamouli's Vikramarkudu pairing Ravi Teja for the first time in her career, in which she portrayed the character Neeraja Goswami. The film went on to become very successful and got her much recognition, that eventually made her very popular in Andhra Pradesh and as a leading actress in Telugu.She next had starred in the film Astram, a remake of the 1999 Hindi film Sarfarosh, following which she debuted in the Tamil film industry, acting in the Sundar C.-directed action flick Rendu, sharing screen space with R. Madhavan. Later that year, she made a special appearance in A. R. Murugadoss' directorial debut in Telugu, Stalin.
Her first release in 2007 was Lakshyam, after which she starred in Raghava Lawrence's Don opposite Nagarjuna again. The former, in particular, succeeded at the box office.In 2008 she had appeared in six films. Okka Magaadu was the first release, in which she played one of three female leads. Her subsequent releases Swagatam alongside Jagapati Babu and Bhumika Chawla and Baladur opposite Ravi Teja garnered poor reviews and box office returns. She next appeared in the film Souryam with Gopichand which became a box office hit.
Critical acclaim and stardom in Tollywood (2009–2010)
In 2009, Shetty first starred in the blockbuster hit, the fantasy film Arundhati. In this heroine-centric film, she essayed two roles for the first time.It was a critical as well as commercial success. Critics heaped praise on Anushka for her performance. Idlebrain's Jeevi wrote that she was "simply amazing in two roles" and that she did "exceptionally well with subtle yet impact creating performance", while Rediff claimed that she was "brilliant and breathtaking in parts",labelling Arundhati as "totally Anushka's film".Sify noted that she was "at her best with great performance".She went on to win the Nandi Special Jury Award and the Filmfare Best Actress Award among other accolades.
Her next film, the action flick Billa, a remake of the 2007 Tamil namesake, itself a remake of the 1978 Hindi film Don, featured Shetty in a role contrary to that in Arundati. Idle brain noted, Anushka is good in slim figure and she is extremely glamorous in revealing dresses. Her final release in 2009 was her second Tamil feature film, the action masala flick Vettaikkaran with leading Tamil actor Vijay and it was a super hit at box-office.
She had an array of releases in 2010, with her Tamil release, the police story Singam co-starring Suriya emerging a huge blockbuster and remains her highest-grosser till date, while most of her her Telugu films performed poorly. Then she portrayed a prostitute in Krish's critically acclaimed anthology film Vedam, her first Telugu film of the year,winning accolades for her performance, including her second consecutive Filmfare Award and other awards as well, following which she was selected to reprise the character in its Tamil remake, Vaanam as well. Her next Telugu film, Panchakshari, was another heroine-centric film where she again performed double roles, however the movie failed at the box office. This was followed by the action comedy Khaleja, where she starred opposite Mahesh Babu for the first time in her career . Nagavalli, the Telugu remake of the Kannada film Aptharakshaka which she portrayed as famaous role as Chandramukhi which she paired again with Venkatesh and Ragada paired opposite Akkineni Nagarjuna followed, which all failed to make an impact at the box office. She also made special appearances in the movies Kedi and Thakita Thakita.
Success and stardom in Kollywood (2011-present)
Vaanam became her first 2011 release, which received positive critical response. A critic from Sify wrote that "Anushka is outstanding as the commercial sex worker as she is able to bring out a life-like performance."and other critics too highly praised her performance as Saroja. She next starred in A. L. Vijay's Deiva Thirumagal with Vikram for the first time in her career. The drama centers on the characters of Krishna, a mentally retarded father and his daughter Nila. The film became a critical and commercial success, fetching her laurels for her portrayal as Anuradha, an advocate.
In 2012,Anushka again co-starred in A. L. Vijay's action drama Thaandavam alongside Vikram and Amy Jackson. In The Hindu review film critic Malathi Rangarajan described her as "perfect ten for the choice of cast" and further stated that "the romance between Vikram and Anushka is a beautiful feature of Thaandavam."The movie did a great business.
After two years long gap in Telugu films, she made a grand comeback in 2012. She appeared alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna in Dhamarukam, a fantasy film. A critic from The Times of India said that Anushka "has little to do as far as performance goes and does a good job of upping the glam quotient".The movie became a Grand Hit .
Her first release in 2013 is Alex Pandian, an action-masala film, directed by Suraj, co-starring Karthi.Critics noted that Anuskha is colourful and glamourous in the movie. Her second release was Koratala Siva's Mirchi opposite Prabhas receives positive talk among the movie busters. Most of the critics praised her performance, also stated she looks glamoros and highligth the chemistry with Prabhas works wonder in the movie.The movie also became a sensational Blockbuster of Tollywood.
Upcoming projects
After the subsequent releases of her films in early of 2013. Then she also started signing magnum opus projects such as Selvaraghavan's Irandam Ulagam opposite Arya and for Singam II second time pairing opposite Suriya its a sequel for her past Blockbuster movie Singam along with actress Hansika Motwani which set to release for summer. She has signed another mega budget heroine oriented Gunashekar's bilingual Rani Rudrama Devishe portrayed the role of kakatiya dynasty queen ruler rani Rudhramadevi opposite actor Rana Daggubati, which is set to start shooting in February 2013.After all these movies Anushka also signed SS Rajamouli's trilingual movie Baahubali pairing opposite for the third time popular actor Prabhas also magnum opus project.
Dubbing
For the first time in her career she dubs her own voice for herself in the movie Mirchi and also she is set her voice to dubs for herself in the movie Irandam Ulagam is a blingual movie under direction Selvaragavan. She also taking Tamil lessons classes.
Brand endorsement
In addition of films, sweety also endorses a large number of brands. She is the brand ambassador for head and shoulder in South. She also the brand ambassador of some jewellery stores like MBS Jewellers. She also endorsed the Colgate brand in Tamil and Telugu by Replacing Trisha Krishnan alongside with stylish star Allu Arjun.
Filmography
Year Film Role Language Notes
2005 Super Sasha Telugu
2005 Maha Nandi Nandini Telugu
2006 Vikramarkudu Neeraja Goswami Telugu
2006 Astram Anusha Telugu
2006 Rendu Jothy Tamil
2006 Stalin Telugu Special appearance
2007 Lakshyam Indu Telugu
2007 Don Priya Telugu
2008 Okka Magaadu Bhavani Telugu
2008 Swagatham Shailu Telugu
2008 Baladoor Bhanumathi Telugu
2008 Souryam Swetha Telugu
2008 Chintakayala Ravi Sunitha Telugu
2008 King Telugu Special appearance
2009 Arundhati Arundhati / Jejamma Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
Nandi Special Jury Award
2009 Billa Maya Telugu
2009 Vettaikkaran Susheela Tamil
2010 Kedi Telugu Special appearance
2010 Singam Kavya Mahalingam Tamil
2010 Vedam Saroja Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
2010 Panchakshari Panchakshari / Honey Telugu
2010 Thakita Thakita Herself Telugu Special appearance
2010 Khaleja Subbalakshmi Telugu
2010 Nagavalli Chandramukhi Telugu Nominated— Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
2010 Ragada Shirisha Telugu
2011 Vaanam Saroja Tamil
2011 Deiva Thirumagal Anuradha Ragunathan Tamil Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Tamil
2012 Saguni Anushka Tamil Special appearance
2012 Thaandavam Meenakshi Tamil
2012 Dhamarukam Maheshwari Telugu
2013 Alex Pandian Divya Tamil
2013 Mirchi Vennela Telugu
2013 Singam II Kavya Duraisingam Tamil Post-production
2013 Irandam Ulagam Tamil Post-production
2013 Varna Telugu Post-production
2013 Rudhramadevi Rudrama Devi Tamil
Telugu Filming
2014 Baahubali Tamil
Telugu Pre-production
Awards and nominations
Year Category Award Film Result
2009 Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu Filmfare Awards South Arundhati Won
Nandi Special Jury Award Nandi Awards Won
CineMAA Award for Best Actress (Jury) CineMAA Awards Won
Ugadi Award for Best Actress Gemini Ugadi Awards Won
Santosham Best Actress Award Santosham Film Awards Won
Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine Vijay Awards Vettaikaran Won
2010 Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu Filmfare Awards South Vedham Won
CineMAA Award for Best Actress (Jury) CineMAA Awards Won
Santosham Best Actress Award Santosham Film Awards Won
Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu Filmfare Awards South Nagavalli Nominated
Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine Vijay Awards Singam Nominated
Award for Best Actress Bharatamuni Awards Panchakshari Won
2011 Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil Filmfare Awards South Deivathirumagal Nominated
SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Tamil South Indian International Movie Awards Nominated
Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine Vijay Awards Won
Vijay Award for Best Actress Vijay Awards Nominated
Jaya Award for Best Actress Jaya Awards Won
ITFA Best Actress Award International Tamil Film Awards Vaanam Nominated
Edison Award for Best Actress Edison Awards Nominated
2012 Edison Awards for Best Actress Edison Awards Thaandavam Nominated
Best Heroine Awards T. Subbarami Reddy's Lalitha Kala Parishath -Tv9 Awards Dhamarukam Won
Other Awards and Honours
2011: Kalaimamani Award by Tamil Nadu State Government
2011: TSR Lalitha Kala Parishath Award
2012: Ranked as most desirable woman of times
Anushka Biography
Born Sweety Shetty
7 November 1981 (age 31)
Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality Indian
Education Bachelor of Computer Applications
Occupation Actress
Years active
Sweety Shetty (born on 7 November 1981), better known by her stage name Anushka Shetty is an Indian film actress, who works for the South Indian film industry. She made her acting debut in the 2005 Telugu film Super and rose to fame following her performance in Vikramarkudu (2006) before foraying in Tamil Cinema.
She received high critical acclaim for her portrayal of the titular character in Arundhati and as Saroja in Vedam which fetched her two Filmfare, one Nandi and two CineMAA Awards. After starring in the Tamil blockbuster Singam (2010), her biggest commercial success, she became one of South India's most leading actresses.Anushka Shetty was born as Sweety Shetty on 7 November 1981 in Mangalore. Shetty is an ethnic Bunt hailing from the landed Bellipady Uramalu Guthu family.Her parents are Prafulla and A.N. Vittal Shetty.She has two brothers Gunaranjan Shetty and Sai Ramesh Shetty who is a cosmetic surgeon.She attended her schooling in Bangalore. She did her Bachelor of Computer Applications at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She was also a yoga instructor and has trained under yoga guru Bharat Thakur.
Early career (2005–2008)
Shetty made her acting debut in Puri Jagannath's 2005 Telugu film Super alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna. The same year, she acted in another film Mahanandi, which was a moderate success at box office. In 2006, she had four releases, the first being S. S. Rajamouli's Vikramarkudu pairing Ravi Teja for the first time in her career, in which she portrayed the character Neeraja Goswami. The film went on to become very successful and got her much recognition, that eventually made her very popular in Andhra Pradesh and as a leading actress in Telugu.She next had starred in the film Astram, a remake of the 1999 Hindi film Sarfarosh, following which she debuted in the Tamil film industry, acting in the Sundar C.-directed action flick Rendu, sharing screen space with R. Madhavan. Later that year, she made a special appearance in A. R. Murugadoss' directorial debut in Telugu, Stalin.
Her first release in 2007 was Lakshyam, after which she starred in Raghava Lawrence's Don opposite Nagarjuna again. The former, in particular, succeeded at the box office.In 2008 she had appeared in six films. Okka Magaadu was the first release, in which she played one of three female leads. Her subsequent releases Swagatam alongside Jagapati Babu and Bhumika Chawla and Baladur opposite Ravi Teja garnered poor reviews and box office returns. She next appeared in the film Souryam with Gopichand which became a box office hit.
Critical acclaim and stardom in Tollywood (2009–2010)
In 2009, Shetty first starred in the blockbuster hit, the fantasy film Arundhati. In this heroine-centric film, she essayed two roles for the first time.It was a critical as well as commercial success. Critics heaped praise on Anushka for her performance. Idlebrain's Jeevi wrote that she was "simply amazing in two roles" and that she did "exceptionally well with subtle yet impact creating performance", while Rediff claimed that she was "brilliant and breathtaking in parts",labelling Arundhati as "totally Anushka's film".Sify noted that she was "at her best with great performance".She went on to win the Nandi Special Jury Award and the Filmfare Best Actress Award among other accolades.
Her next film, the action flick Billa, a remake of the 2007 Tamil namesake, itself a remake of the 1978 Hindi film Don, featured Shetty in a role contrary to that in Arundati. Idle brain noted, Anushka is good in slim figure and she is extremely glamorous in revealing dresses. Her final release in 2009 was her second Tamil feature film, the action masala flick Vettaikkaran with leading Tamil actor Vijay and it was a super hit at box-office.
She had an array of releases in 2010, with her Tamil release, the police story Singam co-starring Suriya emerging a huge blockbuster and remains her highest-grosser till date, while most of her her Telugu films performed poorly. Then she portrayed a prostitute in Krish's critically acclaimed anthology film Vedam, her first Telugu film of the year,winning accolades for her performance, including her second consecutive Filmfare Award and other awards as well, following which she was selected to reprise the character in its Tamil remake, Vaanam as well. Her next Telugu film, Panchakshari, was another heroine-centric film where she again performed double roles, however the movie failed at the box office. This was followed by the action comedy Khaleja, where she starred opposite Mahesh Babu for the first time in her career . Nagavalli, the Telugu remake of the Kannada film Aptharakshaka which she portrayed as famaous role as Chandramukhi which she paired again with Venkatesh and Ragada paired opposite Akkineni Nagarjuna followed, which all failed to make an impact at the box office. She also made special appearances in the movies Kedi and Thakita Thakita.
Success and stardom in Kollywood (2011-present)
Vaanam became her first 2011 release, which received positive critical response. A critic from Sify wrote that "Anushka is outstanding as the commercial sex worker as she is able to bring out a life-like performance."and other critics too highly praised her performance as Saroja. She next starred in A. L. Vijay's Deiva Thirumagal with Vikram for the first time in her career. The drama centers on the characters of Krishna, a mentally retarded father and his daughter Nila. The film became a critical and commercial success, fetching her laurels for her portrayal as Anuradha, an advocate.
In 2012,Anushka again co-starred in A. L. Vijay's action drama Thaandavam alongside Vikram and Amy Jackson. In The Hindu review film critic Malathi Rangarajan described her as "perfect ten for the choice of cast" and further stated that "the romance between Vikram and Anushka is a beautiful feature of Thaandavam."The movie did a great business.
After two years long gap in Telugu films, she made a grand comeback in 2012. She appeared alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna in Dhamarukam, a fantasy film. A critic from The Times of India said that Anushka "has little to do as far as performance goes and does a good job of upping the glam quotient".The movie became a Grand Hit .
Her first release in 2013 is Alex Pandian, an action-masala film, directed by Suraj, co-starring Karthi.Critics noted that Anuskha is colourful and glamourous in the movie. Her second release was Koratala Siva's Mirchi opposite Prabhas receives positive talk among the movie busters. Most of the critics praised her performance, also stated she looks glamoros and highligth the chemistry with Prabhas works wonder in the movie.The movie also became a sensational Blockbuster of Tollywood.
Upcoming projects
After the subsequent releases of her films in early of 2013. Then she also started signing magnum opus projects such as Selvaraghavan's Irandam Ulagam opposite Arya and for Singam II second time pairing opposite Suriya its a sequel for her past Blockbuster movie Singam along with actress Hansika Motwani which set to release for summer. She has signed another mega budget heroine oriented Gunashekar's bilingual Rani Rudrama Devishe portrayed the role of kakatiya dynasty queen ruler rani Rudhramadevi opposite actor Rana Daggubati, which is set to start shooting in February 2013.After all these movies Anushka also signed SS Rajamouli's trilingual movie Baahubali pairing opposite for the third time popular actor Prabhas also magnum opus project.
Dubbing
For the first time in her career she dubs her own voice for herself in the movie Mirchi and also she is set her voice to dubs for herself in the movie Irandam Ulagam is a blingual movie under direction Selvaragavan. She also taking Tamil lessons classes.
Brand endorsement
In addition of films, sweety also endorses a large number of brands. She is the brand ambassador for head and shoulder in South. She also the brand ambassador of some jewellery stores like MBS Jewellers. She also endorsed the Colgate brand in Tamil and Telugu by Replacing Trisha Krishnan alongside with stylish star Allu Arjun.
Filmography
Year Film Role Language Notes
2005 Super Sasha Telugu
2005 Maha Nandi Nandini Telugu
2006 Vikramarkudu Neeraja Goswami Telugu
2006 Astram Anusha Telugu
2006 Rendu Jothy Tamil
2006 Stalin Telugu Special appearance
2007 Lakshyam Indu Telugu
2007 Don Priya Telugu
2008 Okka Magaadu Bhavani Telugu
2008 Swagatham Shailu Telugu
2008 Baladoor Bhanumathi Telugu
2008 Souryam Swetha Telugu
2008 Chintakayala Ravi Sunitha Telugu
2008 King Telugu Special appearance
2009 Arundhati Arundhati / Jejamma Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
Nandi Special Jury Award
2009 Billa Maya Telugu
2009 Vettaikkaran Susheela Tamil
2010 Kedi Telugu Special appearance
2010 Singam Kavya Mahalingam Tamil
2010 Vedam Saroja Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
2010 Panchakshari Panchakshari / Honey Telugu
2010 Thakita Thakita Herself Telugu Special appearance
2010 Khaleja Subbalakshmi Telugu
2010 Nagavalli Chandramukhi Telugu Nominated— Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu
2010 Ragada Shirisha Telugu
2011 Vaanam Saroja Tamil
2011 Deiva Thirumagal Anuradha Ragunathan Tamil Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Tamil
2012 Saguni Anushka Tamil Special appearance
2012 Thaandavam Meenakshi Tamil
2012 Dhamarukam Maheshwari Telugu
2013 Alex Pandian Divya Tamil
2013 Mirchi Vennela Telugu
2013 Singam II Kavya Duraisingam Tamil Post-production
2013 Irandam Ulagam Tamil Post-production
2013 Varna Telugu Post-production
2013 Rudhramadevi Rudrama Devi Tamil
Telugu Filming
2014 Baahubali Tamil
Telugu Pre-production
Awards and nominations
Year Category Award Film Result
2009 Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu Filmfare Awards South Arundhati Won
Nandi Special Jury Award Nandi Awards Won
CineMAA Award for Best Actress (Jury) CineMAA Awards Won
Ugadi Award for Best Actress Gemini Ugadi Awards Won
Santosham Best Actress Award Santosham Film Awards Won
Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine Vijay Awards Vettaikaran Won
2010 Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu Filmfare Awards South Vedham Won
CineMAA Award for Best Actress (Jury) CineMAA Awards Won
Santosham Best Actress Award Santosham Film Awards Won
Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu Filmfare Awards South Nagavalli Nominated
Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine Vijay Awards Singam Nominated
Award for Best Actress Bharatamuni Awards Panchakshari Won
2011 Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil Filmfare Awards South Deivathirumagal Nominated
SIIMA Award for Best Actress – Tamil South Indian International Movie Awards Nominated
Vijay Award for Favourite Heroine Vijay Awards Won
Vijay Award for Best Actress Vijay Awards Nominated
Jaya Award for Best Actress Jaya Awards Won
ITFA Best Actress Award International Tamil Film Awards Vaanam Nominated
Edison Award for Best Actress Edison Awards Nominated
2012 Edison Awards for Best Actress Edison Awards Thaandavam Nominated
Best Heroine Awards T. Subbarami Reddy's Lalitha Kala Parishath -Tv9 Awards Dhamarukam Won
Other Awards and Honours
2011: Kalaimamani Award by Tamil Nadu State Government
2011: TSR Lalitha Kala Parishath Award
2012: Ranked as most desirable woman of times
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