Shriya Saran is an Indian actress and model who has appeared mostly in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi language films. She made her acting debut with the Telugu film Ishtam (2001) and had her first commercial success with Santosham (2002).[1][2] The following year, she made her Hindi cinema debut with a supporting role in Tujhe Meri Kasam, alongside Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza.[3] It was followed by the commercially successful crime drama Tagore (2003), in which she was paired opposite Chiranjeevi.[4] The same year, she played a supporting role in the Tamil-Telugu bilingual film Enakku 20 Unakku 18,[a] which marked her debut in Tamil cinema.[3] In 2005, she had ten releases including Mazhai, S. S. Rajamouli's Chatrapathi, and Mogudu Pellam O Dongodu, in which she was among the only three characters of the film.[5] Saran's solitary release as a lead actress in 2006 was the Tamil film Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam.
In 2007, Saran was paired opposite Rajinikanth in S. Shankar's Sivaji.[3] It was the most expensive film in Indian cinema and went on to become the highest grossing Tamil film to that point.[6][7][8] The same year, she made a comeback to Hindi cinema with Mohit Suri's Awarapan, where she played a Muslim woman.[9] Following that, she made her American cinema debut with James Dodson's The Other End of the Line (2008),[3] in which she played an Indian woman who works in a call centre.[10] Her subsequent releases include the Tamil films Kanthaswamy (2009) and Kutty (2010), and Pokkiri Raja (2010), which marked her debut in Malayalam cinema.[11]
In 2012, Saran starred in Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children, an English adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. The following years, she played a princess in Roopa Iyer's period fantasy drama Chandra; the film was shot simultaneously in Kannada and Tamil.[12] In 2014, she played dual roles in the Telugu drama film Manam. Saran received critical acclaim for her performance and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress – Telugu Award at the 62nd Filmfare Awards South.[13][14] The following year, she appeared opposite Ajay Devgn in Drishyam, the Hindi remake of the Malayalam film of the same name, which became a box office success.[15]
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- ^ "Triple treat treads on weak script". The Hindu. 10 September 2005. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Panchali willing, is Rajni' – Twist in Sivaji tale prevents a model-superstar wedding". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 20 June 2007. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ G Tilak, Sudha (29 June 2007). "Cult star steers India's priciest film". BBC News. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ Chu, Henry (13 July 2007). "Bollywood isn't India's only show-biz player". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ Pandohar, Jaspreet (19 June 2007). "Awarapan (2007)". BBC. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ J Pais, Arthur (31 October 2008). "Desperate over Shriya!". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ Nagarajan, Saraswathy (30 April 2010). "Summer entertainers". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ^ "Shriya plays Princess in Costliest Bilingual "Chandra"". The Times of India. 7 July 2012. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ M. Borah, Prabalika (23 May 2014). "Manam: Smiles all around". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ^ Kumar, Hemanth (23 May 2014). "Ram Charan is all praise for Manam". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ^ "'Drishyam' box-office: The Ajay Devgn-starrer makes Rs 60.5 crore in 17 days". The Times of India. 11 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
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