Madhavi (actress)

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Madhavi is a famous South Indian film actress, who played the heroine role for 17 years in five languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi.

Director K. Balachander introduced her in a supporting role in his superhit Telugu film Marocharithra (1979). In both films, she showed remarkable sensitivity as a lonely wealthy woman who falls in love with Kamal Haasan. Director K. Balachander was impressed with her performance in both films to introduce her to the Tamil film industry in the film Thillu Mullu (1981) with Rajinikanth. By the end of the decade, she was starring opposite superstar Amitabh Bachchan in the Hindi film Agneepath (1990). She was once a Miss India participant.

Madhavi later acted alongside Kamal Haasan in Raja Paarvai, Tik Tik Tik, Kaakki Chattai, Mangamma Sabadham. Other films with Rajinikanth included Garjanai, Thambikku endha ooru, Viduthalai, un kannil neer vazhindhaal.

Being talented, she showed her ability in movies like Needhi dhevan Mayakkam and Nirabaraadhi.

In 1996, she married businessman Sharma, who is half-Indian and half-German, and moved to New Jersey to raise her three children and assist her husband in his business. Although, she has retired from films, she has indicated that she still feels the urge to act when she sees good films.^[1]

[edit] Sources

1. http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/aug-06-02/07-08-06-madhavi.html

[edit] External link

Madhavi at the Internet Movie Database