Shruti (actress)

Shruti
Native name	ಶ್ರುತಿ
Born	Girija Hassan, Karnataka, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present

Shruti, born as Girija, is a South Indian film actress. She has acted in about 120 Kannada films and several movies in other South Indian languages such as Tamil and Malayalam. Having won four Filmfare Awards and three State awards, she was one of the reigning actresses in the 1990s.

Early life

Born in a Kannada speaking family in Karnataka, Shruti's birth name is Girija. She was rechristened as Shruti by the famous actor-director Dwarakish who introduced her as a leading star for his 1990 film Shruti.

Career

Shruthi was in Puttur in her early ages of life. Shruti started her cinema career as a supporting actress and acted in Kannada movie Aasegobba Meesegobba as Shivarajkumar's sister. Later in the year 1990, she acted as heroine in the movie Shruti directed and produced by Dwarakish. This movie was a successful one running over 25 weeks. Some of the most famous and successful Kannada movies from Shruti are, Shruti, Taayi Illada Tavaru, Veerappa Nayaka, Gauri Ganesha, Bombat Hendthi (Karnataka State award Winner), Muddina Maava, Midida Hrudayagalu. Soon after these films, Shruti was stereotyped for tear jerking roles in many Kannada films. She won her first Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress for the movie Aagatha (1995) directed by Suresh Heblikar.

In her career spanning for more than two decades, she acted with all the leading male stars in the film industry of her times like Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Dr.Ambrish, Shivarajkumar, Shashikumar, Ramesh Aravind, Jaggesh, Devaraj, Sunil, Abhijeeth Ram Kumar and others.

Her Tamil film Kalki (1996) directed by the ace director K. Balachander won her the Filmfare Award and also the Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Actress.

Shruti made her small screen debut in the Malayalam serial "Sthreethvam" aired on Surya TV during 2005. Also,her Tamil daily serial, Karthigai Pengal aired on Sun TV from July 2012.

Personal life

Shruti was married to film director S. Mahendar for 11 years and divorced in 2009.^[1] Post her divorce, she was romantically linked with Chakravarthy, a journalist-turned-director and they married in June 2013.^[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Language	Notes
1989	Swantham Ennu Karuthi	Malayalam
1990	Nambidre Nambi Bitre Bidi	Kannada	Credited as Priyadarshini
1990	Aasegobba Meesegobba	Kannada
1990	Shruthi	Kannada
1991	Gauri Ganesha	Kannada
1991	Nagu Nagutha Nali	Kannada
1991	Punda Prachanda	Kannada
1991	C. B. I. Shiva	Kannada
1992	Sindhoora Thilaka	Kannada
1992	Bombaat Hendthi	Kannada
1992	Chitralekha	Kannada
1992	Shambhavi	Kannada
1992	Ksheera Saagara	Kannada
1993	Abhijith	Kannada
1993	Alimayya	Kannada
1993	Dakshayini	Kannada
1993	Durga Pooje	Kannada
1993	Ranjitha	Kannada
1993	Kempaiah IPS	Kannada
1993	Rupaayi Raja	Kannada
1993	Midida Hrudayagalu	Kannada
1993	Muddina Maava	Kannada
1993	Amruta Sindhu	Kannada
1993	Parugo Parugu	Telugu
1994	Rashmi	Kannada
1994	Rasika	Kannada
1994	Jaana	Kannada
1994	Sammilana	Kannada
1994	Time Bomb	Kannada
1995	Thumbida Mane	Kannada
1995	Maangalya Sakshi	Kannada
1995	Mojugara Sogasugara	Kannada
1995	Taayi Illada Tavaru	Kannada
1995	Aagatha	Kannada	Winner, Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress Winner, Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada
1996	Karpoorada Gombe	Kannada
1996	Thavarina Thottilu	Kannada
1996	Kalki	Tamil	Winner, Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress Winner, Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil Kalki
1997	Oral Mathram	Malayalam	as Devika Menon
1998	Bhama Satyabhama	Kannada
1998	Kottaram Veettile Apputtan	Malayalam
1998	Elavamkodu Desam	Malayalam	as Nandini,the princess
1998	Goonda Mattu Police	Kannada
1998	Jagadeeshwari	Kannada
1998	Tavarina Kanike	Kannada
1999	Veerappa Nayaka	Kannada
2000	Soorappa	Kannada
2000	Kadlimatti station master	Kannada
2000	Mahathma	Kannada
2000	Swalpa Adjust Madkolli	Kannada
2001	Amma Ninna Tholinalli	Kannada
2001	Gattimela	Kannada
2001	Jenu Goodu	Kannada
2002	Annayya Thammayya	Kannada
2003	Swantham Malavika	Malayalam
2004	C. I. Mahadevan 5 Adi 4 Inchu	Malayalam
2004	Gowdru	Kannada	Winner, Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress
2005	Rama Shama Bhama	Kannada
2005	Ben Johnson	Malayalam
2005	Pandu Ranga Vittala	Kannada
2005	Maanikyan	Malayalam
2006	Sirivantha	Kannada
2006	Shyamam	Malayalam
2006	Saira	Malayalam
2008	Navashakti Vaibhava	Kannada
2008	Avva	Kannada
2008	Nandadeepa	Kannada
2008	Akka Thangi	Kannada
2009	Chellidaru Sampigeya	Kannada
2011	Sri Naga Shakthi	Kannada
2011	Take It Easy	Kannada
2011	Puttakkana Highway	Kannada	Winner, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress
2011	Aidondla Aidu	Kannada
2012	Sri Kshetra Adichunchanagiri	Kannada
2012	Rambo	Kannada
2012	Kalpana	Kannada
2013	Gombegala Love	Kannada
2015	Ond Chance Kodi	Kannada
TBA	Pellaniki Premalekha Priyuraliki Subhalekha	Telugu
TBA	Home Stay	Hindi Kannada

Television

Sthreetvam (Malayalam) – Surya TV – 07.00PM Prime Time, aired during the year 2005
Karthigai Pengal (Tamil) – Sun TV – 10.00PM Prime Time

References

↑ "Actress Shruthi applies for divorce". indiaglitz. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
↑ "Kannada star Shruthi marries at Kollur Temple". Daijiworld. 6 June 2013.

External links

Shruti at the Internet Movie Database
Sruthi at MSI

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress

1968–1980	Kalpana (1968) Kalpana (1969) Bharathi (1970) Kalpana (1971) L. V. Sharadha (1972) Aarathi (1973) Jayanthi & Nandini (1974) no award (1975) Aarathi (1976) Jayanthi (1977) Aparna Narang (1978) Aarathi (1979) Vaishali Kasaravalli (1980)

1981–2000	Aarathi (1981) Jayanthi (1982) Padma Vasanthi (1983) Abhinaya (1984) Roopa Devi (1985) Jayanthi (1986) Geetha (1987) no award (1988) Saritha (1989) Sudha Rani (1990) Tara (1991) Sudha Rani (1992) Vinaya Prasad (1993) Lakshmi (1994) Shruti (1995) Prema (1996) Shilpa (1997) Jayamala (1998) Soundarya (1999) Tara (2000)

2001–present	Anu Prabhakar (2001) Soundarya (2002) Bhavana (2003) Radhika (2004) Shruti (2005) Pavitra Lokesh (2006) Tara (2007) Umashree (2008) Radhika Pandit (2009) Anu Prabhakar (2010) Ramya (2011) Bhavana (2012) Nirmala Chennappa (2013) Nivedhitha (2014)

Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress

1972–1979	Jayalalithaa (1972) Jayalalithaa (1973) Lakshmi (1974) Sujatha (1975) Sujatha (1976) Sujatha (1977) Latha (1978) Shoba (1979)

1980–1989	Saritha (1980) Sridevi (1981) Poornima Jayaram (1982) Lakshmi (1983) Saritha (1984) Radha (1985) Radhika (1986) Unknown (1987) Unknown (1988) Unknown (1989)

1990–1999	Radhika (1990) Gautami (1991) Revathi (1992) Revathi (1993) Revathi and Nagma (1994) Manisha Koirala (1995) Shruti (1996) Meena (1997) Kausalya (1998) Ramya Krishnan (1999)

2000–2009	Jyothika (2000) Laila (2001) Simran (2002) Laila (2003) Sandhya (2004) Asin (2005) Bhavana (2006) Priyamani (2007) Parvathy (2008) Pooja (2009)

2010–2019	Anjali (2010) Anjali (2011) Samantha (2012) Nayantara (2013)

Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress

1967–1980	K. R. Vijaya (1967) Padmini (1968) Sowcar Janaki (1969) K. R. Vijaya (1970) no award (1971) no award (1972) no award (1973) no award (1974) no award (1975) no award (1976) Latha (1977) Lakshmi (1978) Saritha (1979) Suhasini (1980)

1981–2000	Sridevi (1981) Saritha (1982) no award (1983) no award (1984) no award (1985) no award (1986) no award (1987) Saritha (1988) Raadhika (1989) Revathy (1990) Kushboo (1991) Sukanya (1992) Meena (1993) Rajashree (1994) Kushboo (1995) Shruti (1996) Meena & Devayani (1997) Roja (1998) Simran (1999) Devayani (2000)

2001–present	Sneha (2001) Meena (2002) Laila (2003) Jyothika (2004) Jyothika (2005) Priyamani (2006) Jyothika (2007) Sneha (2008)

Filmfare Award for Best Kannada Actress

1972–1989	Kalpana (1972) Jayanthi (1973) Aarathi (1974) Aarathi (1975) Jayanthi (1976) Manjula (1977) Shobha (1978) Aarathi (1979) Ashwini (1980) Aarathi (1981) Saritha (1982) Suhasini (1983) Suhasini (1984) Saritha (1985) Saritha (1986) Saritha (1989)

1990–2009	Suhasini (1990) Malashri (1991) Sudha Rani (1992) Lakshmi (1993) Shruti (1995) Shilpa (1996) Suhasini (1997) Jayamala (1998) Tara (1999) Sudha Rani (2000) Prema (2001) Soundarya (2002) Meena (2003) Soundarya (2004) Vidya Venkatesh (2005) Ramya (2006) Rashmi (2007) Radhika Pandit (2008) Radhika Pandit (2009)

2010–present	Radhika Pandit (2010) Ramya (2011) Priyamani (2012) Amulya (2013)