Namitha Kapoor
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| Namitha Kapoor | |
| Born | May 10, 1981 Surat, Gujarat  |
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| Occupation | Actress, Model |
Namitha Kapoor[1] (Tamil:நமிதா கபூர்)is a popular South Indian actress. She started out by participating in the Femina Miss India Contest. She was born on May 10, 1981 in Surat, India. She has acted in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi films. Although she started out in Telugu movies, she became famous after the Tamil film Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth. She starred in Tamil Film "Aai" the song "Arjuna Arjuna" along with Sarath Kumar, which ended up as a big hit.this movie dubbed in hindi as Nayi Baazi (going to release very soon). Being tremendously well endowed and very voluptuous, she's constantly cast in almost all her films, entirely for skin show. Her screen name for the first two Telugu movies was Bhairavi.[2] She was crowned Miss Surat in 1998 and came fourth in the Miss India contest during the year 2001 along with Trisha Krishnan and Celina Jaitley, who was crowned Miss India Universe. She has also appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning.
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[edit] Biography
Born and raised in Kurichi, Real name Namita M Vankawala, studied at Ratnam Arts College, Surat. Punjabi-speaking Namitha is another actress in the long list of heroines who made it in Telugu and Tamil movies. Her father is a businessman and her mother is a housewife. She became popular after acting in the Tamil film Engal Anna with Vijayakanth. After being crowned Miss Surat in 1998, she participated in the Miss India contest in 2001. she also won people's favourite award to win miss india world title.It brought Namitha roles in the Telugu film industry. After entering Tollywood, she immediately grabbed the attention of Telugu film lovers with Sontham and acted in Gemini as Bhairavi though the films didn’t fare well in the box office. Namitha. appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning. She has also Tamil and Malayalam films to her credit. She is a Taurean, stands six foot (5'11) tall and weighs about 92 kilos (200 pounds). She may well become Indian movie industry's answer to Lucy Lawless (She is known to be quite fearless in real life too).[3]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Language | Film | Co-Stars | Director | Role |
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| 2008 | Tamil | Indira Vizha | Srikanth | Rajeshwar | Announced |
| 2008 | Tamil | 1977 | Sarath Kumar | Madhuravan | Announced |
| 2008 | Tamil | Kettavan | Silambarasan, | Nandakumar | Filming |
| 2008 | Tamil | Idi | Sundar C | Sakthi Chidambaram | Filming |
| 2008 | Tamil | Thee | Sundar C | Kicha | Filming |
| 2008 | Tamil | Perumal | Sundar C | Vincent Selvah | Filming |
| 2008 | English | Maya | Sunny Malick | Eric Manning | Post Production |
| 2008 | Kannada | Indra | Darshan | H.Vasu | |
| 2008 | Tamil | Pandi | Raghava Lawrence | Madhuravan | |
| 2008 | Tamil | Sandai | Sundar C | Sakthi Chidambaram | |
| 2008 | Tamil | Billa | Ajith | Vishnuvardhan | C.J |
| 2007 | Tamil | Azhagiya Tamil Magan | Vijay, Shriya Saran | Bharathan | Dhanalakshmi |
| 2007 | Tamil | Naan Avanillai | Jeevan, Sneha, Namitha, Jyothirmayi, Keerthi Chawla | Selva | Monika Prasad |
| 2007 | Tamil | Vyapari | SJ Suryah, Tamanna, Namitha | Shakti Chidambaram | |
| 2006 | Kannada | Neelkanta | Ravichandran | Om Sai Prakash | |
| 2006 | Tamil | Nee Venunda Chellam | Ramesh, Gajala | ||
| 2006 | Tamil | Thagapansamy | Prasanth, Pooja Umashankar | ||
| 2006 | Tamil | Pachchak Kuthira | Parthiban | ||
| 2006 | Hindi | Love Ke Chakker Mein | |||
| 2006 | Tamil | Kovai Brothers | Sibiraj, Sathyaraj | ||
| 2005 | Tamil | Englishkaran | Sathyaraj | ||
| 2005 | Tamil | Aanai | Arjun Sarja, Keerthi Chawla | ||
| 2005 | Telugu | Nayakudu | Dr. Rajsekhar | Kodi Ramakrishna | |
| 2005 | Tamil | Bambara Kannaley | Srikanth, Arthi Agarwal | cameo | |
| 2005 | Tamil | Chanakya | Sarath Kumar | ||
| 2005 | Tamil | Aei | Sarath Kumar | ||
| 2005 | Telugu | Aithe Enti | Soma Vijayaprakash | ||
| 2004 | Telugu | Oka Radha Iddaru Krushnula Pelli | Prabhu Deva, Srikanth | ||
| 2004 | Tamil | Engal Anna | Vijayakanth | ||
| 2003 | Telugu | Oka raju Oka Rani | Raviteja | ||
| 2002 | Telugu | Gemini | Vickram | saran | |
| 2002 | Telugu | Sontam | Aryan Rajesh,Rohit | Sreenu Vitla |
[edit] Trivia
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- She is the only daughter in her family.
- She loves White and Black colours. White roses are her favourite flowers.
- She swims and plays badminton in her free time. She used to coach swimming for kids.
- She Often appears on front covers of Tamil magazines (i.e. once every 3 weeks)[4].
- She is a promoter for Gadgetguru.
- Born in Surat[5], brought up in Bombay, first starred in a Tamil movie by Malayalam director Siddhique.
- Has appeared in TV commercials for Himami cream & hand soap, Arun Ice Cream, Manikchand
Gutka, and Nile herbal shampoo.
- She was a judge in the dance show maanada mayilada on Kalaignar TV. Along with famous choreographers Kala Master and Brinda Master.
- She replaced Simran on Maanada Mayilada.
