Which Malayalam actress has acted in Bollywood movies?

 List of Malayalam actress who has acted in Bollywood movies

1. Nayanthara

Nayanthara has debut in bollywood film Jawan starring Shahrukh Khan and Vijay Sethupathi

2. Asin Thottumkal

Though Malayali background, she is very popular in Tamil and Hindi films

She has acted with mega stars actor in Ghajini (2008) Aamir Khan, Ready (2011) Salman Khan and Khiladi 786 and Housefull 2 Akshay Kumar

3. Shobana

One of the versatile malayalam actress and also dancer Bharatanatyam in 90s time legendary . National award won actress, primarily known for her prolific work in Malayalam Tamil and Telugu cinema. However, she has made notable contributions to Hindi films throughout

In bollywood film industry, her debut film was Classic Amar Prem (1972) as a child artist

Other main lead as an adult actress Mitr My Friend (2002), Apna Asmaan (2007), Mere Baap Pehle Aap (2008)

4. Parvathy Thiruvothu

Parvathy Thiruvothu has starred in two prominent Bollywood films: the romantic comedy Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017) and the mystery thriller Kadak Singh (2023)

5. Nithya Menon

(starred in Mission Mangal, 2018 space mission film, main lead actor Akshay Kumar

6. Vidya Balan

Vidya Balan was born in the Palakkad district of Kerala. However, she is of Tamil descent, belonging to a Tamil Brahmin (Palakkad Iyer) family, and was raised primarily in Mumbai. Her most of the films are bollywood films especially romantic and versatility role, content driven roles.

Her notable film Hamari Adhuri Kahani and Dirty Picture, Mission Mangal

7. Lena

Many of you might unnotice her, she has acted in Airlift (2016) starring Akshay Kumar, her role was Deepti Jayarajan

She portrayed the wife of George Kutty (played by Prakash Belawadi), a conservative and initially complaining Malayali expatriate couple trapped in war-torn Kuwait during the 1990 Gulf War.

Many outsider from other states do not know about Lena, but she is very popular in Malayalam film industry, known for supporting cast, brave character roles.

8. Malavika Mohanan

Malavika Mohanan debuted in Bollywood with Majid Majidi’s critically acclaimed film Beyond the Clouds (2017). She recently expanded her Hindi film presence with the action-thriller Yudhra (2024), where she starred alongside Siddhant Chaturvedi. She primarily acts in Tamil, Malayalam films.

8. Anaswara Rajan

She has acted in Yaariyan 2, main lead actress, She is just New Gen actress from Kerala and has Youth Fan base, Debuted in 2017, Malayalam film Udaharanam Sujatha. Anaswara Rajan has long way to go to showcase her acting skills,

9. Priya Prakas Varrier

Priya Prakash Varrier plays a character named Devi in the 2023 coming-of-age drama film Yaariyan 2, Hindi remake of the Malayalam hit Bangalore Days (2014)

10. Priyamani

Her notable Hindi projects include a key supporting role in Shah Rukh Khan's blockbuster Jawan (2023), a significant part in the true-story drama Maidaan (2024), and the critically praised film Article 370 (2024).

She has appeared in cameo song in Chennai Express Movie (2013)

11. Keerthy Suresh

Though leading Kollywood actress despite Malayali background Keerthy Suresh made her Bollywood debut in the action-thriller Baby John (2024), where she starred alongside Varun Dhawan. The film, which is an official remake of the Tamil hit Theri (2016)

12. Pearly Maaney

Pearle Maaney's only Bollywood movie is the 2020 dark comedy crime film Ludo Directed by Anurag Basu, she played the role of Sheeja Thomas in the film, starring alongside an ensemble cast that included Abhishek Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, and Pankaj Tripathi. It released on Netflix.

She has acted in Several Malayalam film and other job profile is lyricist, television presenter.

Are there any old Bollywood movies that are still enjoyable to watch today? If so, which ones and why?

 Recently I had to recharge my jio sim to keep it activated (I use it as secondary sim) and got a JioHotstar subscription free. I explored a few movies and shows but didn't find anything interesting. Then I stumbled upon ‘Anand’, released in 1971 from Bollywood.

Source: The Indian Express

The movie revolves around a patient Anand who is diagnosed with a disease and has only a few months to live. He decided to stay the last few months of his live in Bombay. Amitabh is a depressed doctor who hates his job for the lack of his power to save lives of people who often suffer from incurable diseases. He usually stayed rude, thought people as the reason for their own problem and had negative overview of life. That is when Anand met him and started staying with him, he slowly changed the view of Amitabh towards life and people. Amitabh once again started smiling and laughing. Unfortunately Ananad due to his disease passed away. Though before so he met a bunch of people, including Amitabh and changed their lives. This movie offers a broad viewpoint towards life.

Bollywood actresses and their Premature marriages

People who criticize the current age gap difference between actor and actresses, shouldn't forget that 70s, 80s, 90s was the hay day of not only age gap, but marriages between co actors.

Dimple Kapadia was 16 when, Rajesh Khanna who was 31 and a well established superstar, married each other.

Divya Bharti also, was 18 when she married sajid nadiadwala who was a producer.

People got the concept of nepotism after 2017-18, but it became a nationwide topic in 2020 after Sushant's death. But you shouldn't forget that nepotism have existed since forever. Just like this, age gap was also a even more problematic issue in 80s , 90s.

Even during saif ali Khan's first marriage when he was 20, kareena kapoor had attended the function as she was 10. And in 2010 they started dating and married in 2012.

To say age is just a number, is a fallacy.

Even if two 16 years old individuals are marrying eachother, that's still acceptable than have a 35 year man marrying a 16 or 18 year old. Age matters.

Still, there are some exceptions like jay mehta and juhi chawla.

People today troll juhi for marrying a rich guy, as they don't understand that they actually had a pretty normal relationship before marriage and even after they married, jay mehta was okay with not announcing it as it could have affected juhi's career.

What are some strange facts about some popular Bollywood actors?

 

• Shatrugan Sinha's daughter Sonakshi looks like his ex Reena Roy.

• Mahesh Bhatt's daughters Pooja & Alia Bhatt's have an age gap of 21 years.

• Sridevi apparently tied rakhi to Boney Kapoor before getting married.

• Sridevi & Boney Kapoor's elder daughter Janhvi Kapoor was born after 3 months of their wedding.

• Rekha wears vermilion even though she isn't married.

• Kareena Kapoor attended Saif Ali Khan's first wedding when she was just 10.

• Shraddha Kapoor scored 95% in her 12th boards.

• Ajay Devgn & SRK are Chainsmokers.

Why did Helen, the Bollywood actress, leave Prem Narayan Arora and marry Salim Khan?

 Helen married Prem Narayan Arora who was 27 years older than her. She was only nineteen years old at the time of the marriage. The marriage lasted of 16 years.

According to reports, P. N. Arora was accused of using Helen’s money. Helen was doing well in the film industry and there used to be a lot of clashes between the two regarding financial issues.

P. N Arora was misusing Helen’s wealth. He had taken the entire control and custody of her wealth. Besides this, Helen had even handed the control of her properties to Arora who even threw Helen out of her own house.

As time passed Helen struggled to find work due to changing industry trends where heriones began performing their own glamourous dance numbers. As a result, Helen was left almost penniless and at one stage did not had funds to pay for her rented house.

Helen sought help from veteran actor Dilip Kumar and writer Salim Khan. On the instance of Dilip Kumar, underworld don Karim Lala intervened and helped Helen to claim her house back.

Finally, Helen divorced P. N. Arora in 1974 on her 36th birthday and married Salim Khan in 1981.

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Who are some of the Marathi actors and actresses who have worked in Bollywood movies?

 List of Marathi actors who have worked in Bollywood movies

Ritiesh Deshmukh.

Sayaji Shinde

He is prominently popular in South Indian film, despite Marathi Background. Sayaji Shinde is a versatile Indian actor renowned for his powerful supporting and antagonist roles in Hindi

Shool (1999) as Bachhu Yadav Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha (2024)Antim: The Final Truth (2021)Big Brother (2007)Market (2003) as MunnabhaiCalcutta Mail (2003) as Supratik

Nana Patekar

Shreyas Talpade

Atul Kulkarni

Atul Kulkarni's mother tongue is Marathiz although he was born in Belgaum, Karnataka, he was raised and educated in Maharashtra.

Sachin Khedekar

Mahesh Manjrekar

Subodh Bhave

Made his Bollywood debut playing the character Madhav Rajadhyaksha opposite Rani Mukerji

Siddharth Jadav

Ashok Saraf

Vijay Patkar

Upendra Limaye

Late actor laxmikanth Bede

Late actor Vikram Gokhale

Sachin Pilgaonkar

Saurabh Gokhale

Sharad Kelkar

Shashank Shende

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⭐List of Marathi Actresses who have worked in Bollywood

Madhuri Dixit

Even though she is bollywood actress, many people assume that she is hindi speaking background, but NO, she was born into a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family in Bombay to Shankar and Snehlata Dixit

Mrunal Thakur

One of the leading bollywood actress, high demand who is ruling in Hindi and Telugu films despite she is Marathi. She was born in Dhule. She comes from a Marathi-speaking family.

She began her film career with Marathi films such as Hello Nandan and Vitti Dandu before moving to Hindi and Telugu cinema., however she has acted in Numerous hindi films like Super 30, Love

Love Sonia (2018), Batla House (2019), Dhamaka (2021), Jersey (2022) – Gumraah (2023)

Sharvari

New Generation Bollywood Actress who is known for works in Hindi films, making her acting debut in the Amazon Prime series The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye (2020) and her theatrical breakthrough in the hit horror-comedy Munjya (2024) and Vedaa (2024) starring John Abraham

Even though she has worked in Hindi films, Sharvari Wagh's mother tongue is Marathi, born and raised in Mumbai to a Marathi family, and has publicly shared that she actively speaks Marathi at home

Sonali Bendre.

Sonali Kulkarni

Sai Tamhankar

Amruta Khanvilkar

Renuka Shahane

Padmini Kolhapure

Urmila Matondkar

Padmini Kolhapure

Saiee Manjrekar

Saiee Manjrekar made a brief appearance as a child artist in the 2012 Marathi film Kaksparsh. While she has built a prominent career in Hindi and Telugu cinema with films like Dabangg 3, Major, and Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha, she has not yet starred as a lead in a full-length Marathi feature film,

Pooja Sawant.

She played the lead role of Shankara in this Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Chuck Russell, starring alongside Vidyut Jammwal.

Vaidehi Parshurami

is primarily a Marathi film actress who has also made notable appearances in Bollywood. Her major Hindi film credits include the action-thriller

Wazir (2016) and the blockbuster action-comedy Simmba (2018), where she played the pivotal supporting character Aakruti Dave.

Shriya

Shriya Pilgaonkar's mother tongue is Marathi, Born and raised in Mumbai, she belongs to a renowned Maharashtrian family Pilgaonkar.

Supriya Pilgaonkar