Rambha

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Vijayalakshmi (Telugu: విజయలక్ష్మి/రంభ born June 5, 1974),^[1] best known by her stage name Rambha, is an Indian film actress. She has acted in over 100 South Indian films and also in Bollywood films. She had done several successful films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali and Bhojpuri films. She paired up with popular actors like Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Rajnikanth, Kamal Hassan, Mammootty, Kalabhavan Mani, V. Ravichandran, Karthik Muthuraman, Jayaram, Mithun Chakraborty, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty and Govinda. She appeared as a Judge on Kalaingar TV's Maanada Mayilada.

Personal life

Born as VijayaLakshmi in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, Rambha married Indran Pathmanathan, the founder and chairman of Magickwoods, a kitchen and bathroom manufacturing firm based in Canada, on April 8, 2010, in Tirumala. Her Mother Tongue is Telugu. She is also the brand ambassador of her husband's firm, which has manufacturing facilities in Canada, India & China. She gave birth to a last child a "daughter" in Toronto on January 14, 2011.^[2][3]

Career

Rambha started her career with the – 1990 Kannada movie Server Somanna opposite Jaggesh. The same year she acted in a Malayalam film Sargam opposite Vineeth. She again paired up with Vineeth in Champakulam Thachan. She then entered Bollywood and was paired up with popular heroes.

Her second Tamil movie Ullathai Allitha, which remains her biggest hit till date, gave her a major breakthrough in her career. It was from this movie she started doing glamour roles which instantly won her numerous fans. She even had a nickname 'Thoday azhagi' (Gorgeous Thighs). She had huge success in South Indian films from the mid 90s till early 2000s. People loved her glamour roles and especially her 'thundering' thighs and a gorgeous smile in the silver screen. She also had very tough competition at that time with hugely popular heriones like Simran, Roja, Meena and Nagma all in their prime. While approaching the mid 2000s Rambha started losing her magical touch as age slowly started catching up and a new crop of young heroines started their reign in Tamil films.

Rambha started her career as a producer with help of her brother for Three Roses! in which Jyothika, Laila and Rambha are the lead characters. Unfortunately the film failed in the box office despite Rambha acting glamorously.

Rambha has acted in several languages and maintained a successful balance in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Bengali. She is currently concentrating on Bhojpuri films. Her latest film in Malayalam titled Paayum Puli in 2007 got good reviews. Despite being in the mid 30s she did one of her most glamorous roles for this film. Most of her movies are successful. She has acted in two Bengali films and now she has three Hindi films.

Filmography

Bhojpuri films

• Ram Balram
• Purav Aur Pachhim
• Rasikaa Balma

References

External links

• Rambha (actress) at the Internet Movie Database