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Meenakshi Seshadri is a Actor Indian born on 13 november 1959 at Sindri (Inde)

Meenakshi Seshadri

Meenakshi Seshadri
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Birth name Shashikala Seshadri
Nationality Inde
Birth 13 november 1959 (64 years) at Sindri (Inde)

Meenakshi Seshadri is an Indian film actress and dancer who mainly appeared in Hindi films. Meenakshi has appeared in range of movies from comedy, drama, and action to romance. She won the Miss India contest in 1981 at age 17, the youngest woman to be crowned Miss India.

Sheshadri made her film debut in Painter Babu (1983) and received wider public recognition with the film Hero (1983), which was followed by a number of films in the 1980s and 1990s. She was noted for her performances in films, including Bewafai, Meri Jung (1985), Swati (film), Dacait (1987), Inaam Dus Hazaar (1987), Shahenshah (1988), Mahaadev(1989), Jurm (1990), En Rathathin Rathame, Ghayal (1990), Damini (1993), Duet and Ghatak (1996) among others. Whereas she received immense critical acclaim for her films like Swati (1986), Dahleez (1986), Satyamev Jayate (1987 film), Awaargi (1990) and Damini (1993), the role that became her identity. She went on to establish herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses in the 1980s and 1990s, acknowledged for several of her performances, her beauty, and her accomplished dancing. She is often cited as one of the most beautiful actresses to have ever appeared in Indian cinema.

After the release of her film Ghatak, she left the film industry to raise her children, since then she has been out of the limelight and does not appear on television and films any more. She resides in the US, with her husband and children. However she has been partially active in the US where she runs her dance school "Cherish Dance School". Recently a documentary was also made on her life called Meenakshi Accept Her Wings, the documentary depicted the transitional lifestyle of dancer, actress to a homemaker.



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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Meenakshi Seshadri (65 films)

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Ghayal Once Again
Directed by Sunny Deol, Rahul Rawail
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sunny Deol, Om Puri, Murali Sharma, Prachi Desai, Dharmendra, Vidya Balan
Roles Varsha (flash back)
Rating61% 3.0995853.0995853.0995853.0995853.099585
The film will take-off from where the first version left off.
Swami Vivekananda
Directed by Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about religion
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, Pradeep Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Mammootty
Roles the young woman who desires to marry Narendranath Datta and later becomes Sannyasini
Rating70% 3.5247953.5247953.5247953.5247953.524795
The film mainly captures the events of Vivekananda's life from his birth to 1897, when he returned to India from the West. The film begins with the birth of Narendranath Datta (pre-monastic name of Swami Vivekananda) and shows the neighbors and relatives of Datta family celebrating the event. It immediately moves to the scene where Narendranath sees his father Vishwanath Datta is donating money, clothes, food to poor and distressed people. Seeing this, young Narendranath asks his father to give him something too, and his father tells him to go and look at mirror and find what he had already given him. Following his father's suggestion, Narndranath goes to the room, sees his image in the mirror.
Ghatak: Lethal, 2h38
Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri, K. K. Raina, Sanjay Batra
Roles Gauri
Rating74% 3.747263.747263.747263.747263.74726
Kashi (Sunny Deol) is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful son of Shambhu Nath (Amrish Puri) living in Banaras. Shambhu Nath who was a freedom fighter awarded with Tambra Patra, is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi comes to Mumbai with his father for his medical treatment of throat and stays with his brother Shiv Nath (K. K. Raina). Kashi meets Gauri (Meenakshi Seshadri) and starts liking her. He learns that the colony is being terrorized by a tyrannical gangster named Katya (Danny Denzongpa) along with his other six brothers. Before Kashi's arrival, a resident named Sachdev (Om Puri) tries to initiate revolt against Katya but gets ruthlessly killed by him, thereby making Malti (Ila Arun), wife of Sachdev, go mad. Katya and his brothers become enemy with Kashi when he beats up their goons when they were beating up Malti. Shambhu Nath is later diagnosed with throat cancer and has only a few days to live.
Duet
Duet (1994)
, 2h36
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Meenakshi Seshadri, Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Ramesh Aravind, Charle, Mohan Raman
Roles Anjali
Rating64% 3.241483.241483.241483.241483.24148
In a bridge across a sea, saxophone music is heard which is played by Guna. He recollects about the tragedy which happened two years back in his life.
Aadmi Khilona Hai
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Meenakshi Seshadri, Govinda, Laxmikant Berde, Sulabha Deshpande
Roles Punam Verma
Rating49% 2.4918552.4918552.4918552.4918552.491855
Sharad and Punam are devastated when they learn that Punam can not be a mother. Ganga helps Punam to solve this problem. Unfortunately, when Sharad gets a job, they find that Ganga helped them for hidden reasons and it is time for payback.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (1993)
, 3h
Directed by J.P. Dutta
Actors Sunil Dutt, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Raveena Tandon
Roles Madhu (Jaswant's love interest)
Rating59% 2.950582.950582.950582.950582.95058
The film is about two warring royal Kshatriya Rajput families in Rajasthan, India, based in Mirtagarh and Surjangarh . The Mirtagarh family's head Bhavani Singh (Sunil Dutt) is killed by the Surjangarh family's head Prithvi Singh (Dharmendra), which causes a bloody feud between the two families spreading over two generations.
Aaj Ka Goonda Raaj
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Meenakshi Seshadri, Sharat Saxena, Raj Babbar, Dalip Tahil, Satish Shah, Rakesh Bedi
Roles Shalu Sharma
Rating53% 2.6705352.6705352.6705352.6705352.670535
Raja, though he is righteous, honest, tough, a daredevil and educated, was an unemployed young man. With no work on hand he squanders his time with his four friends. This naturally upsets his family members: his dadi and elder brothers Amar and Ravi who care and worry for him.
Aapathbandavudu
Directed by K. Viswanath
Actors Meenakshi Seshadri, Sarath Babu, Jandhyala‌, Vijayachander, Allu Rama Lingiah, Geetha
Roles Hema
Rating78% 3.922213.922213.922213.922213.92221
Madhava (Chiranjeevi), is a loyal friend, servant, and cowherd to Hema (Meenakshi Seshadri) and her father (Jandhyala). He also performs in dramas, in which he portrays Lord Shiva. Hema's father is a school teacher and a great poet. However, since his classical poetry is no longer popular, he cannot find a publisher to print his poems. Even though Hema and Madhava love each other, neither realizes this due to societal divisions of caste & economic class. Hema is the first to realize her love during a drama where she portrays the role of Lord Shiva's consort, but suppresses her feelings owing to societal divisions.
Damini – Lightning, 2h56
Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, Vijayendra Ghatge, Rohini Hattangadi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Roles Damini Gupta
Rating77% 3.8959553.8959553.8959553.8959553.895955
Shekhar Gupta (Rishi Kapoor), a rich businessman, falls in love at first sight with Damini (Meenakshi Sheshadri). They get married and Damini moves into his palatial bungalow. One day, she witnesses Shekhar's younger brother, Rakesh, raping the maid-servant and rushes to tell Shekhar. Shekhar rushes over to prevent the sexual assault but is too late. The Gupta family conspire to cover up this shameful incident. But Damini decides to inform the police. The matter is taken up in court and Damini is asked to testify. Damini is portrayed as a mentally unstable person and confined in a mental institution for two weeks by a judicial order. Unable to bear the mental torture in the institution, she escapes and runs into a down-and-out alcoholic lawyer, Govind (Sunny Deol), who has the rape case re-opened. The maid-servant dies in hospital and the police write her death off as a suicide. But Govind is able to prove otherwise. It is up to Damini, Govind and Shekhar to provide justice to the victimised girl.
Akayla
Akayla (1991)
, 3h
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Seshadri, Aditya Pancholi, Shashi Kapoor
Roles Seema
Rating52% 2.611472.611472.611472.611472.61147
Inspector Vijay Verma (Amitabh Bachchan) is a very lonely cop whose only family is a younger brother Ajay Verma (Aditya Pancholi) who is studying abroad. He also has two good friends Shekhar (Jackie Shroff) and Seema (Meenakshi Seshadri). One day when he arrests the criminal mastermind Tony Briganza (Keith Stevenson), he is shocked when Tony is released from police custody because his corrupt lawyer shows the court a videotape showing him at a completely different place so therefore he couldn't have committed the crime. From this day on they become enemies and Vijay is hot on Tony's trail every time he commits a crime.