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Kasthuri Wiki, Age, Husband, Boyfriend, Height, Weight, Biography



 Kasthuri Shankar father Shankar was an engineer from IIT and her mother, Sumathi, was an advocate. She has a daughter who is a leukaemia survivor.

Kasthuri Shankar is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada language films.

After winning the Miss Madras 1992 beauty pageant, Kasthuri began an acting career through Kasthuri Raja's Aatha Un Koyilile (1991). In the early 2010s, she made a comeback and took on roles as a supporting actress and as a television host.

Birth Name :    Shanmathi

Screen Name : Kasthuri

Date of Birth : May 1, 1974

From :             Chennai, India

Settled in:        Nashville, TN, USA

Spouse:           Dr.Sreekumar? (Citation needs to be validated)

Alma Matter : Adarsh, Ethiraj College for Women

Accomplishments

  • Rank holder in board exams
  • A state level hockey champion
  • An RD cadet in air-force wing
  • BBC's Mastermind India 2000 quiz finalist
  • Won Miss Chennai in 1992, and a participant of Miss India 1994
  • A successful Model
  • A fine actress with over 60+ films to her credit
  • An entrepreneur, distributor and event manager in US
  • A writer and political thinker
  • Above all, a great mom and wife


Career

During her education at Ethiraj College for Women, Kasthuri became interested in modelling and later went on to win the Femina Miss Madras beauty pageant for 1992. She received film offers and subsequently made her acting debut through Kasthuri Raja's Aatha Un Koyilile (1991), where she portrayed a wealthy girl in a village. She continued to work in small budget Tamil films such as the horror drama Rasathi Varum Naal (1991) and Manivannan's Government Mappillai (1992), before working alongside Prabhu on more mainstream films such as Gangai Amaran's Chinnavar (1992) and P. Vasu's Senthamizh Paattu (1992). During the same period, she worked on her first Telugu and Malayalam films as a lead actress. After garnering popularity for her early films, she was cast opposite Rajinikanth in P. Vasu's Uzhaippali (1993), but was later dropped from the project.

In the mid-1990s, Kasthuri was the subject of a 30-minute documentary film Kasthuri: A South Indian Film star made by Richard Breyer and N. C. Rajamani. Kasthuri then continued to work as the lead actress in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films, notably appearing in successful films such as the horror drama Athma (1993), the political satire Amaidhi Padai (1995) and as the title character in Chinna Mani (1995). At the height of her popularity, her Telugu film Merupu (1996) co-starring Anand and Vikram, was dubbed and released in Tamil as Miss Madras, owing to her success in the competition.

Kasthuri was then cast alongside Kamal Haasan in Shankar's action drama Indian (1996), where she portrayed a pivotal supporting role a poor student. She later won critical acclaim for her role as Akkalamma in the Telugu devotional film, Annamayya (1997), where she starred alongside Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishnan. She then appeared opposite Prashanth in Agathiyan's romantic drama Kaadhal Kavithai (1998), and won attention for her performance in a song. As her roles diminished in Tamil and Telugu films, Kasthuri began to take up supporting roles towards the end of her first stint.

In the late 2000s, Kasthuri returned to India owing to her mother's ailing health and decided to make a comeback as an actress. However, several of the films that she signed during the period were dropped or unreleased including Selva's Nootrukku Nooru, Milind Rau's Kadhal 2 Kalyanam and Venkat's Kadhirvel, where she was signed to perform in an item number. Her first release during her second stint was the action drama Malai Malai (2009), and she followed it up with a single song appearance in the comedy Thamizh Padam (2010). Throughout the mid-2010s, she continued to shift base between the US and India, and acted in more films in guest appearances and in single song appearances. She also notably portrayed a key supporting role as an investigative agent in Adhik Ravichandran's Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan (2017), appearing alongside Silambarasan. The film garnered fanfare prior to release, but the commercial failure of the film saw a proposed sequel cancelled.

Television

Kasthuri works as quiz master at staged events and on television. She had taken an early interest during childhood in participating in quiz events, and later continued making competitive appearances, and notably appeared as a contestant on BBC's Mastermind India in 2000. She later made a comeback to hosting television-based quiz shows in the 2010s, and worked on Vina Vidai Vettai for Puthuyugam TV.

After rejecting the opportunity to appear on the Tamil reality television show Bigg Boss Tamil in 2018, she joined the third season of the show in 2019 as a wildcard contestant.

After that,she made her comeback to Telugu audience in Intinti Gruhalakshmi serial which airs on Star Maa now. It is her 1st debut into TV serials.

Activism

Kasthuri is an active commentator regarding social issues through an occasional column with the Times of India and via Twitter, and her tweets have sometimes elicited debate in the media. In early 2017, she questioned Rajinikanth's ability as a potential politician, and her opinion garnered criticism from the actor's fans. In late 2018, she criticised Rajinikanth's ignorance over the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and engaged in a further exchange with Rajinikanth's supporters. Kasthuri spoke out as a part of the Me Too movement in India, suggesting that her reluctance to give into patriarchal behaviour meant that she was removed from several film projects. She revealed that one male actor took a particular vengeance against her for her rebuff to his advances, and subsequently made it difficult for her to work on other projects.

In 2014, she was photographed as a part of Jade Beall's book The Bodies of Mothers: A Beautiful Body Project. The images from the shoot were later illegally shared by Indian websites, and Kasthuri announced that she would take legal action against the sites.

Filmography

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
1991Aatha Un KoyilileKasthuriTamil
ChakravarthyPraseethaMalayalam
Rasathi Varum NaalRadhaTamil
1992Government MappillaiMallaria
ChinnavarMeena
Urimai OonjaladugiradhuUma
Senthamizh PattuShanmathi
AbhiramiDhanam
Gang WarKaveriTelugu
1993Rakkayi KoyilVellaiyammaTamil
Pudhiya MugamRaja's first wife
Pass MarkShanthi
AathmaUma
Udan PirappuSumathi
Nippu RavvaBharathiTelugu
Enga MuthalaliKalyaniTamil
1994Amaidhi PadaiThayamma
Watchman VadivelRadha
Raja PandiPonnuthaayi
Thendral Varum TheruNalini
JaanaKasturiKannada
1995Sindhu BathShobanaTamil
Chinna ManiChinna Mani
KolangalUma
God FatherArunaTelugu
AgrajanSreedeviMalayalam
RadholsavamChempakam
Aniyan Bava Chetan BavaAmmu
1996Ibbara Naduve Muddina Aata-Kannada
IndianKasthuriTamil
KrishnaLizy
Soggadi Pellam-Telugu
MerupuPrema
1997ChilakkottuduKasturi
Ratha Yatra-
AnnamayyaAkkalamma
Maa aayana Bangaram
1998Mangalya PallakkuSeethalakshmiMalayalam
Thutta MuttaDr. SeemaKannada
One Man ArmyKasthoori
SnehamRadhikaMalayalam
Kaadhal KavidhaiSwapnaTamil
1999HabbaAnuKannada
SuyamvaramUmaTamil
PanchapaandavarNandiniMalayalam
2001Engalukkum Kaalam VarumPoojaTamil
Dosth-Special appearance in the song "Hey Sal Sal"
Akasa VeedhiloPadmaTelugu
Premakke SaiVedhaKannada
2002Adheena-Malayalam
2009Malai MalaiLakshmiTamil
2010Thamizh Padam-Special appearance in the song "Kuthuvilakku"
Gudu Gudu GunjamMalleeshwariTelugu
Don SeenuLakshmi
2011PathinaaruIlavarasiTamilGuest appearance
Thoonga Nagaram-Special appearance
2012NaangaChithra
2013Azhagan Azhagi-Special appearance in the song "Ethuvarai Vaanam"
Naan Rajavaga PogirenBharathi
2014VadacurrySatish's sister in law
Naan Ponnu Ondru Kanden-Special appearance in the song "Othaya Retaya"
2017Anbanavan Asaradhavan AdangadhavanRuby
SamanthakamaniKrishna's motherTelugu
2018Traffic RamasamyWitness in courtTamilGuest appearance
Thamizh Padam 2-Special appearance in the song "Vaa Vaa Kaama"
2020Velvet NagaramGauri
ThamilarasanFilming
Television
YearTitleRoleLanguageChannelNotes
EshtadanamMalayalamDD MalayalamSerial
Kaiyalavu ManasuTamilSerial
2000Mastermind IndiaContestantTamilBBC
2010Sun Kudumbam Awards 2010HostSun TV
2013-14Vina Vidai VettaiHostPuthuyugam TV
2014Vina Vidai Vettai JuniorsHostPuthuyugam TV
2019Bigg Boss Tamil 3ContestantStar VijayEvicted
Day 63
2020–PresentIntinti GruhalakshmiTulasiTeluguStar MaaSerial

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