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Genelia
Born
Genelia D'Souza
Other namesgeenu, Harini,gene
Years active2003—present
Height5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Websitewww.geneliafans.com

Genelia D'Souza (Born in Mumbai, India) is a young actress in India. She is a Christian by birth .Her parents originally hail from Mangalore, Karnataka and later moved to Mumbai. She has acted over a dozen films in South Indian Cinema.Kishore is her biggest fan.

Career

Genelia studied at Apostolic Carmel High School in Bandra, a suburb in Mumbai. After school, she joined the St. Andrews College, Bandra to pursue a Bachelor's Degree. Mumbai-based Genelia starred in the big budgeted Boys by top director Shankar. She starred opposite fellow débutante Siddharth. The film was Shankar's only flop in his career and it failed to launch her career. The only person who shot to stardom from this film was Bharath.

She left Kollywood for a while to concentrate on the Tollywood industry, starring in other successful films including, Satyam, Masti, Samba and Sye. She followed it up with a pairing with popular actor Venkatesh in Subhash Chandra Bose. She returned to the Tamil industry with the Sachein with Vijay.It was a mediocre movie that beat Mumbai Express and lost to Chandramukhi which were all released on April 14, 2005. An important information about this movie is that it was shot at brisk speed as it was an interim project for Vijay, squeezed between Thirupachi and Sivakasi, with him pairing for the first time with Asin in the latter while his lucky lady, Trisha was his lead lady in the earlier mentiond. In Telugu, Happy opposite Allu Arjun was a hit. Bommarillu, with Siddharth Narayan, is a super hit and won Best Movie Award in the Santosham Film Awards. Chennai Kadhal, her Tamil project did average business.[1] She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai. Recently, she won the Filmfare Award as a Best Actress for her performance in the block buster Telugu movie Bommarillu for the year 2006. She acted in her first Kannada film Satya In Love in 2008. The film grossed close to 4 crores in its opening weekend creating a new record in the Kannada film industry.

Awards & Nominations

Won

Nominated

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Won

Won

FNCC Awards

Won

Filmography

Year Film Role Language Co-Stars Notes
2003 Tujhe Meri Kasam Anju Hindi Ritesh Deshmukh Remake of Telugu Cinema Nuvve Kaavaali
Boys Harini Tamil Siddharth Narayan, Bharath Dubbed into Telugu as Boys
Satyam Ankitha Telugu Sumanth
2004 Masti Bindhiya Hindi Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh
Samba Sandhya Telugu Jr. NTR, Bhoomika Chawla Dubbed into Tamil as Samba
2005 Naa Alludu Gagana Telugu Jr. NTR, Shriya Saran Dubbed into Tamil as Madhurai Mappilai
Sachein Shalini Tamil Vijay, Bipasha Basu, Linda Arsenio
Subhash Chandra Bose Anitha Telugu Venkatesh, Shriya Saran
Sye Indhu Telugu Nitin, Shashank Dubbed into Tamil as Kazhugu
2006 Happy Madhumathi Telugu Allu Arjun, Manoj Bajpai Dubbed into Malayalam as Happy
Raam Lakshmi Telugu Nitin, Hrishitaa Bhatt
Bommarillu Hasini Telugu Siddharth Narayan, Neha Bamb Winner:Telugu Filmfare Award for Best Actress
Winner:Santosham Award for Best Actress
Chennai Kadhal Narmadha Tamil Bharath
2007 Dhee Pooja Telugu Vishnu Vardhan Babu
2008 Mr. Medhavi Swetha Telugu Raja
Satya In Love Veda Kannada Shivarajkumar
Santosh Subramaniam Tamil Jayam Ravi Remake of Telugu Movie Bommarillu
Ready Telugu Ram Filming
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na Aditi Hindi Imran Khan Filming

References

  1. ^ "Genelia in 'Mr.Medhavi'". Genelia.info. Retrieved 11 December. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); External link in |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)