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Jyothika is a Actor Indian born on 18 october 1978 at Mumbai (Inde)

Jyothika

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Birth name Jyothika Sadanah
Nationality Inde
Birth 18 october 1978 (46 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Creator of 2D Entertainment
Awards Filmfare Awards South

Jyothika Saravanan (née Jyothika Sadanah on 18 October 1978) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil films. She also acted in a few Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. She gained prominence for her performances in Kushi, Perazhagan, Chandramukhi and Mozhi, winning one Filmfare and three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She is also a recipient of the Kalaimamani award. Jyothika married co-actor Suriya in September 2006 after being engaged in a relationship for several years. She made a comeback in the movie 36 Vayadhinile (2015), which got good appreciation from the critics, especially for her performance.

Biography

Jyothika was born to Chander Sadanah, a film producer Seema Sadanah, in Mumbai, India. Actress Nagma is her half-sister. She completed her schooling in Learner's Academy, Mumbai. She later majored in Psychology at the Mithibai College in Mumbai. She also has a sister Roshini (born Radhika) and a brother Suraj, who is working as an assistant director for Priyadarshan.

Jyothika married actor Suriya on 11 September 2006, with whom she was paired in seven films; Poovellam Kettuppar, Uyirile Kalanthathu, Kaakha Kaakha, Perazhagan, Maayavi, June R and Sillunu Oru Kaadhal. The couple have two children, daughter Diya (born 10 August 2007) and son Dev (born 7 June 2010).

Usually with

Suriya
Suriya
(9 films)
Vivek
Vivek
(11 films)
Jeeva
Jeeva
(4 films)
Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jyothika (47 films)

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Actress

36 Vayadhinile, 1h55
Directed by Rosshan Andrrews
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Jyothika, Rashin Rahman, Abhirami, Nassar, Ilavarasu, Delhi Ganesh
Roles Vasanthi Thamizhselvan
Rating68% 3.442193.442193.442193.442193.44219
36-year-old Vasanthi Tamizhselvan (Jyothika) is a UD clerk in the Revenue Department. Her husband is Tamizhselvan (Rahman) who works in Akashvaani. Tamizhselvan aspires to emigrate to Ireland, but Vasanthi can't accompany him as most Irish companies turn down her job applications because of her age being a problem.There is nothing interesting about her life; she leads a mundane life but she craves for a change.
Nagavalli
Nagavalli (2010)
, 2h39
Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Anushka Shetty, Richa Gangopadhyay, Shraddha Das, Poonam Kaur, Jyothika
Roles Ganga Kailash
Rating45% 2.2753452.2753452.2753452.2753452.275345
An ancient painting of Chandramukhi, alias Nagavalli (Anushka Shetty), floats away to a distant place, where it finally comes into the hands of a village painter. The painter takes it home to restore it. When his wife asks him to sell the painting, he becomes furious, saying that he wouldn't sell it off even at the cost of his life. The next day, the painter is shown to be dead under mysterious circumstances, possibly being a suicide. The painting is then sold off to a dance competition, which was distributed as a prize to Bharatanatyam dancer Gayathri (Kamalinee Mukherjee), her husband and her family. Gayathri lives in a palatial house in Tirupathi with her husband, father Shankar Rao (Sharat Babu), mother Parvathi (Prabha), sisters Geetha (Shraddha Das) and Gowri (Richa Gangopadhyay), maternal uncle Appa Rao(Dharmavarapu Subramanyam), his wife and maternal cousins Pooja(Poonam Kaur) and Hema(Suja) happily.
Seetha Kalyanam
Directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Genres Romance
Actors Jayaram, Bheeman Reghu, Jyothika, Geetu Mohandas, Siddique, Bindu Panicker
Roles Nimisha
Rating43% 2.151252.151252.151252.151252.15125
Sreeni (Jayaram), a simpleton has a high paying job in Bangalore. His mother, who is traditional to the core, is looking for the perfect match for him. Sreeni is a butt of the joke among his female colleagues and they tease him by pretending to flirt with him. The leader among them is Nimisha (Jyothika). Their relationship is purely platonic. Meanwhile, his mother succeeds in finding a traditional girl in Abhirami (Geethu Mohandas); brought up in an Aghraharam.
Manikanda
Manikanda (2007)

Directed by Sundar C.
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Arjun Sarja, Jyothika, Pasupathy, Uma Shankari, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vadivelu
Roles Mahalakshmi/Madhumita
Rating41% 2.06832.06832.06832.06832.0683
Mozhi
Mozhi (2007)
, 2h35
Directed by Radha Mohan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jyothika, Prakash Raj, Swarnamalya, Vatsala Rajagopal, M. S. Bhaskar
Roles Archana
Rating80% 4.0400054.0400054.0400054.0400054.040005
Karthik (Prithviraj) and Viji (Prakash Raj) are close friends, who are keyboard players in music director Vidyasagar’s team. They are brilliant in their work of re-recording and background scores. They are fun-loving, witty and share a great rapport. They come to live in an apartment complex where they meet a handful of interesting people. Their neighbour and flat secretary, Ananthakrishnan (Brahmanandam) is not too happy about Karthik occupying the flat and asks him to vacate as bachelors are not allowed to live there. Preethi (Neelima Rani), a girl from one of those apartments, is head over heels in love with Karthik.
Pachaikili Muthucharam, 2h27
Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Jyothika, Andrea Jeremiah, Milind Soman, VTV Ganesh, Gautham Vasudev Menon
Roles Smitha / Geetha
Rating62% 3.1462853.1462853.1462853.1462853.146285
Venkat (R. Sarathkumar), a medical representative, is a happily married person with a son. His wife Kalyani (Andrea Jeremiah) is very loving and both of them along with their son Nanda (Armaan) have a perfect life. That is, until their son falls sick and things between the husband and wife cool down a bit. Kalyani begins to spend more time with their son Nanda and starts to ignore her husband involuntarily. Venkat feeling a bit lonely and neglected walks in and out of his monotonous life without complaining much. He tries to understand his wife's feelings.
Raakilipattu
Directed by Priyadarshan
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Jyothika, Tabu, Sharbani Mukherji, Lakshmi Narayan, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Major Ravi
Roles Josephine

Josephine (Jyothika), her best friend Radhika (Sharbani Mukherjee) and their friends are pranksters in a ladies' college. Like other college girls, they sing songs, break rules and wreak havoc. They also have a grudge against Gita, another girl from the college.
Saravana
Saravana (2006)

Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Silambarasan, Jyothika, Prakash Raj, Five Star Krishna, Nagesh, Easwari Rao
Roles Sadhana
Rating51% 2.5575652.5575652.5575652.5575652.557565
The movie begins with the engagement of Saravana's sister (Tharika). The house is full of joy and laughter, awaiting the return of Saravana from college. However, when Saravana (Silambarasan) returns, the family members are shocked. He has brought home a distraught and frightened girl, whom he introduces as his friend, Sadhana (Jyothika).
Shock
Shock (2006)

Directed by Harish Shankar
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Ravi Teja, Jyothika, Tabu, Konidela Nagendra Babu, Subba Raju, Brahmanandam
Roles Madhurima
Rating54% 2.712752.712752.712752.712752.71275
Sekhar (Ravi Teja) and Madhurima (Jyothika) are happily married couple who work for an advertising company. Nagesh (Subbaraju) and Divakar (Ravi Kale) are notorious encounter specialists. They shoot Sekhar mistaking him to be a Maoist. After realizing their mistake, they frame him as Maoist by planting proof. Lawyer Dharma Reddy (Kota) cheats on his client Sekhar and makes sure that he gets 8-year imprisonment. Madhurima meets Geeta (Tabu) – an investigative journalist. As Madhurima and Geeta unite to get clues, the encounter specialists force Madhurima to commit suicide. In the end, Sekhar kills Nagesh & Divakar.
Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, 2h55
Directed by N.Krishna
Genres Romance
Actors Suriya, Jyothika, Bhumika Chawla, Shriya Sharma, Vadivelu, Santhanam
Roles Kundavi
Rating70% 3.546943.546943.546943.546943.54694
Kundavi (Jyothika) was brought up in a small village called Ambasamudram. She, along with her two friends, decide to have a love marriage. However she is not so successful. Her father arranges her marriage to Gautham (Surya Sivakumar) against her wishes. Both look gloomy during the wedding due to obvious reasons.
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, 2h54
Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, Prakash Raj, Bidushi Dash Barde, Rajashree, Kamalinee Mukherjee
Roles Aradhana
Rating78% 3.9462653.9462653.9462653.9462653.946265
Rani (Bidushi Dash Barde), the daughter of former Chennai police officer Arokiya Raj (Prakash Raj), tells her father over the phone that she will back home in 20 minutes. As she leaves the telephone booth, she is approached by someone. The screen then cuts to black and we find out that Rani does not come home. The following morning Arokiya Raj finds a finger hanging at his door. Police reports confirm that it is his daughter Rani's finger. He calls Raghavan (Kamal Hassan), his old friend, for investigation. Raghavan handles the case and they eventually find the body of Rani in a forest in the city outskirts. The doctor's report states that the killer bisected Rani’s body with a surgical knife, proving that the murderer has a strong medical background. Following the trauma of losing their only daughter, Arokiya Raj and his wife move to New York.
Vikramarkudu, 2h41
Directed by S. S. Rajamouli
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Ravi Teja, Anushka Shetty, Ajay, Brahmanandam, Jyothika, Vineet Kumar
Roles Vikram's Wife (Archive Footage)
Rating76% 3.8447453.8447453.8447453.8447453.844745
Athili Sathi Babu (Ravi Teja) is a small-time thief and crook who is crazy about acts of daredevilry who falls in love with Neeraja (Anushka Shetty) who is in Hyderabad to attend a marriage. Sathi Babu makes his way into her heart and she also starts loving him. Sathi Babu tells her the truth about him being a thief and resolves to give up crime forever. But before that, he decides to swindle one last person for a large sum of money along with his con-friend Duvva (Brahmanandam). He tricks a woman on a railway station (Not really station, it is bus stand) and flees with a trunk. This leads Sathi Babu to Neha (Baby Neha), a young girl who was in the trunk instead of the wealth he thought was in the trunk, who thinks that satibabu is her father. Flummoxed by what is happening, but forced to keep Neha with him as a police officer Inspector Mahanti (Rajiv Kanakala) keeps his eye on him.
June R
June R (2006)
, 2h
Genres Drama
Actors Jyothika, Kushboo Sundar, Saritha, Biju Menon, Suriya, Siddharth Venugopal
Roles June R
Rating47% 2.385192.385192.385192.385192.38519
June R (Jyotika), an orphan, was born in the month of June, for which she was named. She works in an advertising agency. One day she happens to come across a middle-aged woman (Saritha) hurt badly in an accident. She admits her in hospital and tells the doctor that it is her mother Rajalakshmi in order to save her life from the regular hierarchical rules of the hospital. Coming to Rajalakshmi (named by June) who happens to be Mrs. Raniammal, a widowed woman who strives to bring up her only son Arun (Biju menon) whereas Arun smitten by his wife's words for the wealth and money of his mother, plans to send her away from his home to an orphanage in order to settle with his wife in New York City. Deeply hurt, Raniammal finds solace in June's company, who also longs for a motherly love since childhood. June decides to take Rajalakshmi to her house and calls her mom. Both together (June and Rajalakshmi) cherish life who once were starved for love. later her son comes back again to take his mother back, Rajalakshmi realising her sons evil thoughts refuses to get back to him. later on Rajalakshmi's refusal he visits June and quarrels with her to give back his mother, June baffles with his sudden love for his mother. this implies an emotional entangle between the both meanwhile Rajalakshmi falls sick and June on seeing Raniammal's pathetic condition brings her brother (Ravikumar) whom she wanted to meet before she dies. On visiting Rajalakshmi's home town she unveils the mystery behind his sudden love for his mother. now entrant Amudha (Kushboo) a noted and leading lawyer aids June to get back her new mother legally, prostrating Arun's wicked thoughts in the law of court . at last the judgement favours June though June succeeds in her mission of getting back her mother, but fate has some storm in its store, June finds Rajalakshmi dead when she comes back. Now comes Raja (actor Suriya who plays a cameo ), a rich client of June's advertising agency falls in love with her who consoles her on this uncompensable loss and takes her along with him, just the way her mother Rajalakshmi wished.
Bhadra
Bhadra (2005)

Genres Action, Romance
Actors Ravi Teja, Meera Jasmine, Arjan Bajwa, Prakash Raj, Pradeep Rawat, Linda Arsenio
Rating67% 3.3948353.3948353.3948353.3948353.394835
Bhadra (Ravi Teja) and Raja (Arjan Bajwa) are the thickest of friends. When Raja comes to the city to visit Bhadra, Bhadra notices Raja's sister, Anu (Meera Jasmine), and is attracted to her instantly. When Raja visits his home village, Bhadra visits along with him. Anu, who returns from London, is impressed by Bhadra, who continually impresses her, based on her tastes. He gets along well with Raja's and Anu's family, in the meanwhile convinces them that he would make a prospective groom for Anu.