Bhumika Chawla

Bhumika Chawla
Bhumika Chawla
Born	Rachna Chawla; 21 August 1978 (age 46); New Delhi, India
Other names	Gudiya ; Bhoomika ; Bhumika Thakur ; Bhumi
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	Bharath Thakur (2007–Present)

Bhumika Chawla (born Rachna Chawla on 21 August 1978) is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu (2000) and has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in over thirty films in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Malayalam. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed performances in Kushi, Okkadu (2003), Tere Naam, Missamma, Gandhi, My Father and Anasuya.

Early life

Chawla was born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India and completed her schooling there. Her father was an Army officer. She moved to Mumbai in 1997 and started her career with Ad films and Hindi music video albums. She appeared in the Zee TV series Hip Hip Hurray.^[1]

Career

Chawla started off her film career in the Telugu film industry, starring in the feature film Yuvakudu (2000) alongside actor Sumanth. Her second release, Kushi (2001), in which she starred opposite Pawan Kalyan was a box office success, winning her the Filmfare Best Actress Award (Telugu) following which she acted in several films in Telugu, including Okkadu (2003) opposite Mahesh Babu and Simhadri (2003) opposite Jr. NTR, which became two of the year's highest grossers in Telugu.^[2] Meanwhile, she made her debut in the Tamil film industry as well, starring in the film Badri (2001) opposite actor Vijay, which was followed by her second Tamil film Roja Kootam (2002).

After a number of critically and commercially successful films in the South, Chawla starred in her first Bollywood film, Tere Naam (2003), alongside Salman Khan. The film was one of the year's highest grossers. It was a critical success and her performance in the film won her many positive notices as well as several nominations for Best Debut at different award ceremonies. She was nominated for her first Filmfare Best Actress Award and won the Best Debut trophy at the Zee Cine Awards ceremony.^[3]

Subsequently, she got to star in a number of Hindi films as Run (2004), a remake of the same-named Tamil film, Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha (2004), again opposite Salman Khan, Silsilay (2005) and Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005) alongside Amitabh Bachchan. She returned to Telugu, acting in the films Naa Autograph (2004) (a remake of the Tamil film Autograph) and Jai Chiranjeeva, alongside Chiranjeevi and Sameera Reddy. Whilst Chawla's performance in the former won her accolades and the CineMAA Jury Award for Best Actress, the latter went to become a super hit film.

In 2006, Chawla appeared in the Tamil film Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, alongside real-life couple Surya and Jyothika which became a big hit worldwide, whilst playing a vital role in the Hindi film Family - Ties of Blood, in which she shared screen space with Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, and starring in the Telugu fantasy film, Mayabazar. Following which, she acted in the Hindi film Gandhi, My Father as Gulab Gandhi and enacted the title roles in the Telugu films Sathyabhama, in which she played a woman who suffers from Short-term memory loss,^[4] and Anasuya, a crime thriller, and in the Bhojpuri film, Gangotri (2007 film), a sequel to the successful 2006 Bhojpuri film Ganga, acting again alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

In 2008, she made her debut in the Punjabi film industry, starring in Yaariyan, opposite Gurdas Maan, following which she debuted in Malayalam as well, starring in Bhramaram alongside Mohanlal. Currently, she is working on half-a-dozen films in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, which include Thangar Bachan's Kalavadiya Pozhudugal opposite Prabhu Deva in Tamil, Yagam alongside Navdeep and Sathyaraj in Telugu and Classmates, a remake of the Classmates (film), in Hindi.

Personal life

Bhumika Chawla married her long-time boyfriend and Yoga teacher Bharat Thakur on 21 October 2007 at Devlali, Nashik in a Gurdwara.^[5] She went regularly to Thakur's courses and is said to have dated him for four years, before eventually marrying him.^[6]The couple has a son born on February 2014.^[7]^[8] Bhumika has two siblings; one brother, who is an army officer, and one sister, both elder to her.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2000	Yuvakudu	Sindhu	Telugu
2001	Badri	Janaki	Tamil
2001	Khushi	Madhumitha	Telugu	Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu
2001	Snehamante Idera	Yuvrani Padmini	Telugu
2002	Roja Koottam	Mano	Tamil
2002	Vasu	Divya	Telugu
2003	Okkadu	Swapna Reddy	Telugu
2003	Missamma	Meghana	Telugu	Nandi Award for Best Actress
2003	Simhadri	Indu	Telugu
2003	Tere Naam	Nirjara Bharadwaj	Hindi	Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut
2003	Aadanthe Ado Type		Telugu	Special appearance
2004	Run	Jhanvi Choudhry	Hindi
2004	Samba	Nandu	Telugu
2004	Naa Autograph	Divya	Telugu
2004	Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa	Dhani	Hindi
2005	Silsilay	Zia Rao	Hindi
2005	Dil Jo Bhi Kahey...	Dr. Gayarti Pandey	Hindi
2005	Jai Chiranjeeva	Neelima	Telugu
2006	Sillunu Oru Kaadhal	Ishwarya	Tamil
2006	Family - Ties of Blood	Dr. Kavita	Hindi
2006	Mayabazaar	Anupama	Telugu
2007	Gandhi, My Father	Gulab Gandhi	Hindi
2007	Sathyabhama	Sathyabhama	Telugu	Nandi Special Jury Award
2007	Gangotri	Gangotri	Bhojpuri
2007	Anasuya	Anasuya	Telugu	Santosham Best Actress Award
2008	Swagatham	Vidhya KK	Telugu
2008	Mallepuvvu	Malleshwari "Malli" Kanneganti	Telugu
2008	Yaariyan	Simran	Punjabi
2009	Bhramaram	Jaya	Malayalam
2009	Naa Style Veru	Parvati	Telugu
2009	Amaravathi	Amaravathi	Telugu
2010	Yagam	Nandini	Telugu
2010	Thakita Thakita	Professor	Telugu	also Producer
2010	Collector Gaari Bharya	Indira Gautam	Telugu
2012	Godfather		Kannada	Special appearance
2013	Buddy	Padma	Malayalam
2013	Chithirayil Nilachoru		Tamil
2014	Laddu Babu	Madhavi	Telugu
2014	April Fool	Swapna	Telugu	^[9]
2015	Alivelu Manga	Alivelu Manga	Telugu	Filming
2015	Rathrimazha		Malayalam	Filming
2015	Love You Alia		Kannada	Filming
2015	Kalavadiya Pozhudugal	Jayanthi	Tamil	Delayed

References

^ "Hip Hip Hurray!". rajshri.com. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
^ "Telugu mid-year report". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
^ "Nominees for the 49th Manikchand Filmfare Awards 2003". The Times Of India. March 2008.
^ "Interview with Bhumika Chawla". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
^ "Bhumika Chawla weds yoga guru Bharat". Screenindia.com. Retrieved 21 October 2007. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
^ "Bhumika weds Bharath on Oct 25 th". Oneindia. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
^ http://www.telugu.cinemalead.com/news-id-bhumika-chawla-laddu-babu-28-02-143014.htm
^ http://www.iqlikmovies.com/news/2014/02/28/Actress-Bhumika-Chawla-blessed-with-a-baby-boy/news/3396
^ "Jagapathi, Bhumika in April Fool – Telugu Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

External links

Bhumika Chawla at IMDb

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[1] "Hip Hip Hurray!". rajshri.com. Retrieved 6 August 2009.

[2] "Telugu mid-year report". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 August 2009.

[FF-3] "Nominees for the 49th Manikchand Filmfare Awards 2003". The Times Of India. March 2008.

[4] "Interview with Bhumika Chawla". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 6 August 2009.

[BT-5] "Bhumika Chawla weds yoga guru Bharat". Screenindia.com. Retrieved 21 October 2007. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

[6] "Bhumika weds Bharath on Oct 25 th". Oneindia. Retrieved 6 August 2009.

[7] ttp://www.telugu.cinemalead.com/news-id-bhumika-chawla-laddu-babu-28-02-143014.htm

[8] ttp://www.iqlikmovies.com/news/2014/02/28/Actress-Bhumika-Chawla-blessed-with-a-baby-boy/news/3396

[9] "Jagapathi, Bhumika in April Fool – Telugu Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress
1972–1980	Jayalalithaa (1972) Vanisri (1973) Vanisri (1974) Vanisri (1975) Jayasudha (1976) Jayasudha (1977) Talluri Rameshwari (1978) Sujatha (1979) Jyothi (1980)
1981–2000	Radhika (1981) Jayasudha (1982) Jaya Prada (1983) Suhasini (1984) Vijayashanti (1985) Lakshmi (1986) Vijayashanti (1987) Bhanupriya (1988) Vijayashanti (1989) Vijayashanti (1990) Sridevi (1991) Revathi (1992) Vijayashanti (1993) Aamani (1994) Soundarya (1995) Tabu (1996) Vijayashanti (1997) Soundarya (1998) Soundarya (1999) Richa Pallod (2000)
2001–2018	Bhumika Chawla (2001) Sadha (2002) Asin (2003) Trisha (2004) Trisha (2005) Genelia D'Souza (2006) Trisha (2007) Swathi Reddy (2008) Anushka Shetty (2009) Anushka Shetty (2010) Nayanthara (2011) Samantha (2012) Nithya Menen (2013) Shruti Haasan (2014) Anushka Shetty (2015) Samantha (2016) Sai Pallavi (2017) Keerthy Suresh (2018)
2020–present	Sai Pallavi (2020–2021) Mrunal Thakur (2022) Keerthy Suresh (2023)

v t e Nandi Special Jury Award
1983–1990	Vijayachander (1983) Karthik (1987) Kallu Chidambaram (1988) Chiranjeevi (1988) Venkatesh (1988) Jagapathi Babu (1990)
1991–2000	Naresh (1992) Suman (1997) Ravi Teja (1999) Venu Thottempudi (1999) AVS (2000) Srihari (2000) Nagarjuna (2000) Manjula Ghattamaneni (2001) Mahesh Babu (2001)
2001–2010	Surya (2001) N. T. Rama Rao Jr (2002) Ravi Teja (2002) Mahesh Babu (2002) Pavan Malhotra (2003) Saritha (2004) Mahesh Babu (2004) Allu Arjun (2004) Sneha (2005) Priyadarshini Ram (2005) Vadde Naveen (2005) Gangaraju Gunnam (2006) Genelia D'Souza (2006) Ram Charan (2007) Bhumika Chawla (2007) Allu Arjun (2008) Anushka Shetty (2008) Genelia D'Souza (2009) Ram Charan (2009) Srikanth (2009) Manchu Manoj (2010) Sunil (2010) Samantha Ruth Prabhu (2010)
2011–present	Nagarjuna (2011) Charmy Kaur (2011) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (2012) Lakshmi (2012) Gautham Vasudev Menon (2012) Anjali (2013) Nithya Menen (2015) Nani (2016)