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Malashri is a Actor Indian born on 10 august 1973 at Bangalore (Inde)

Malashri

Malashri
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Birth name Sri Durga
Nationality Inde
Birth 10 august 1973 (51 years) at Bangalore (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South

Sri Durga (born 10 August 1973), known by screen name as Malashri, is an Indian film actress. She has worked predominantly in Kannada films in addition to Telugu and Tamil films. A leading actress of Kannada cinema in the late 1980s and 1990s, Malashri garnered praise for her portrayal of a homely Indian girl and character roles. She was popularly called Kanasina Rani ("Dream Girl") in the media.

Malashri began her career as a child artiste and has appeared in 34 films of Tamil and Telugu. She made her debut in a lead role with the Kannada film Nanjundi Kalyana(1989). Her portrayal of a haughty, shrewish woman in the movie won her many accolades heralding her as one of the top actresses in Kannada Cinema. She went to establish herself as a leading actress in Kannada cinema with the films Gajapathi Garvabhanga (1989), Policena Hendthi (1990), Kitturina Huli (1990), Rani Maharani (1990), Hrudaya Haadithu (1991), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, Ramachaari (1991), Belli Kalungura (1992), Solillada Saradara (1993) and Gadibidi Aliya (1995). In the 2000s, Malashri began to work exclusively in action films like Chamundi (2000), Kannadada Kiran Bedi (2009), Shakti (2012), Veera (2013) and Ganga (2015).

Biography

Malashri was born and brought up in Madras (now Chennai)into a telugu speaking family. She shot to fame with Nanjundi Kalyana in 1989 but her personal life hit an all time low the same year when her mother died in a road accident. She had an affair with actor Sunil, her co-star in many films. But in 1994 she met with a car accident when her car got hit by a truck. While Malashree suffered multiple injuries, Sunil died within an hour. It was rumoured that they even had plans of getting married. She is currently married to film producer Ramu and they have a daughter Ananya . Her sister Subhashri was also an actress, who appeared in South Indian films.

Usually with

Doddanna
Doddanna
(7 films)
Mukhyamantri Chandru
Mukhyamantri Chandru
(7 films)
ಹಂಸಲೇಖ/Hamsalekha
ಹಂಸಲೇಖ/Hamsalekha
(6 films)
Avinash
Avinash
(6 films)
Upendra Kumar
Upendra Kumar
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Malashri (42 films)

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Actress

Gharshane
Gharshane (2014)
, 2h11
Directed by Dayal Padmanabhan
Genres Thriller
Actors Malashri, Ashish Vidyarthi, Tarun Chandra, Suchendra Prasad
Roles Nethravathi

Malashri Plays a CCB officer who cracks down the wrong people.
Kannadadda Kiran Bedi
Kannadadda Kiran Bedi (2008)
, 2h39
Actors Malashri, Srinivasa Murthy, Rangayana Raghu, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sayaji Shinde
Roles Kiran Bedi/Bellary Bhagyalakshmi

A police constable, Venkatappa (Srinivasa Murthy) meets Bellary Bhagyalakshmi (Malashri), a fraud and tells her his daughter, Kiran Bedi's (Malashri) story. Kiran was a police officer in Bangalore and resembled Bellary. There is a crime nexus run by Bhoopathy (Ashish Vidyarthi), his partners Naga (Kote), Mobile Nachappa (Rangayana Raghu), D'Souza and Muni in Bangalore. Bhoopathy's daughter Vicky murders a young civil service student, Shweta. Bhoopathy hides Vicky in Bhadramma's (Telangana Shakuntala) house. Kiran finds Vicky and kills him and Bhadramma. Bhoopathy, in a fit of rage, manages to kill Kiran. Venkatappa now requests Bellary to become Kiran Bedi and finish Bhoopathy and his associates. Bellary accepts after listening to the story and getting money for it. Bellary targets the whole nexus of Bhoopathy and slowly starts taking them down. But soon Bellary's identity is revealed in the court. Full of remorse, she enters civil services and becomes a real police officer finishing Bhoopathy.
Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya
Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya (1996)
, 2h19
Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao
Genres Romantic comedy, Fantasy
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Shilpa Shetty, Malashri, Brahmanandam, Amrish Puri, Kaikala Satyanarayana
Roles Ganga
Rating60% 3.0489153.0489153.0489153.0489153.048915
The film is about Ravi Chandra (Venkatesh), the film's hero and Sagara Kanya (Shilpa Shetty), a mermaid. Malashree plays Ganga, Ravi's cousin who loves him. They stay with some comedians in a house near the seashore. Kaikala Satyanarayana, the villain of the film, tries to acquire a ship which drowned with a lot of treasure on board.