

After the talk shows ended, she returned to acting in films. Lakshmi took a break from acting to host two talk shows, including the Tamil talk show Achamillai, Achamillai. Balachander's supervision, she made her directorial debut with a remake of Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film): the Kannada film Makkala Sainya (Tamil version Mazhalai Pattalam (1980)) She has performed in more than 400 films and has also been involved in politics. She played Aishwarya Rai's grandmother in Jeans (1998) and Kareena Kapoor's grandmother in Hulchul (2004). When her career as a leading lady ended in the 1980s, she started playing supporting roles as a mother and later as grandmother. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (1977), becoming one of the first South Indian actresses to win in that category for a Tamil film. Most of the films based on TaRaSu novels based on the life of middle class young couples.Īfter her success in Julie, however, she didn't star in many Hindi films and instead concentrated on doing more South Indian films. Their pair was considered the right recipe for success. They acted together in more than 25 films. Ananth Nag and Lakshmi are considered one of the all-time greatest pairs in South Indian cinema. She acted with almost all the leading actors and Stars of South India, but it was her combination with popular actor Anant Nag in 70s and 80s that really struck a chord with the audience. Rajkumar, Mohan Sharma, MG Soman, Kamal Hassan,Mammooty, Mohanlal to name a few.

She has acted in many successful films paired with Nithya Haritha Nayakan (Evergreen Hero) Prem Nazir, Dr. She won Filmfare Awards for Best Actress for her performance in Chalanum and Mohiniyottam. Īfter the success of her debut Malayalam film Chattakari, she starred in many other films in Malayalam. In the Telugu film Panthulamma, she is credited with giving one of her best performances. She is a versatile actress with a glamorous touch. In addition to a Filmfare Best Actress Award, she also won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for the "most outstanding work of the year", for her work in Julie. Chattakari (1974) was remade in Hindi as Julie (1975) and in Telugu as Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975).
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Movie Chattakari has the distinction of being the first Malayalam film to run continuously for 40 weeks in a Bangalore theatre. Lakshmi rose to fame from her first Malayalam movie Chattakari(1974) which won her Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress. She established herself as a successful and popular actress in South India in the 1970s acting in all four South Indian languages: Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. She took a young role of Valli in the movie Her first film was Sri Valli, a Tamil film released in 1961. Lakshmi was nine when she started acting in films. Her mother Kumari Rukhmini was a Tamil actress, whose mother Nungambakkam Janaki was also an actress. Lakshmi was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to veteran Telugu film maker Yaragudipati Varada Rao of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, whose films dealt with important social issues. After appearing as a lead actress for more than a decade she switched over to character roles. Lakshmi made her Bollywood debut in the year 1975, with the women-centric Julie, the remake of Malayalam film Chattakari. She has won one National Film Award for Best Actress, nine Filmfare Awards South, three Nandi Awards, Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress, Karnataka State Award for Best Actress for the movie Hoovu-Hannu, the Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards and various other state awards. She then went on to appear in a number of commercially successful films in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and various other languages. In 1974, she starred in her first Malayalam film Chattakari which went on to become blockbuster throughout India.

Starting to act at the age of 15, she made her silver screen debut as an actress with the Tamil film Jeevanaamsam in 1968, in the same year she was starred in the Kannada film Goadalli CID 999 starring Dr. Lakshmi Narayan (born Yaragudipati Venkatalakshmi on 13 December 1952) is an Indian actress known for her work in Indian film industry.
