Shruti
Also Known As: Girija, Shruthi
Biography: Girija (born 18 September 1975), known by her screen name Shruti, is an Indian actress, television personality and politician. As an actress, she is known for her work in Kannada cinema and has appeared in over 100 films. She is currently serving as chief secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party's women's wing in its Karnataka cadre. In addition to Kannada, Shruti has appeared in a handful Tamil and Malayalam films. She was among the leading actresses in Kannada cinema during the 1990s and has won three Karnataka State Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards South in her career spanning over 25 years. She is known for performance in films such as Gauri Ganesha (1991), Aagatha (1995), Kalki (1996), Gowdru (2004), Akka Thangi (2008) and Puttakkana Highway (2011). She is sister of actor Sharan. In 2016, she won the third season of the reality television show Bigg Boss Kannada. Shruti joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2008. She was made the chairperson of the Karnataka Women and Child Development Corporation before being removed in 2009. In 2013, she joined the Karnataka Janata Paksha which eventually merged in 2014 with the BJP.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hassan, Karnataka, india
Birthday: September 18, 1975
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Gender: Female
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Rathnan Prapancha
Overview: Rathnakara is an insurance agent living a mundane life with his unapologetically loud mother Saroja. An uncomfortable truth about his life leads him to go on a trail to find his world. What does he learn eventually?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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Rasika
Overview: Rekha is in love with the village simpleton Krishna. However, the rivalry between Krishna's mother and Rekha's father poses a hurdle.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1994-06-03
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Jaana
Overview: Ravishankar, a bank manager, is transferred to Bengaluru where he falls in love with the CM's daughter, Kasturi. Ravi decides to step up when the terrorists kidnap her to settle scores with the CM.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1994-08-31
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Pandu Ranga Vittala
Overview: Vithala gets married to two women, who are both unaware of each other's existence. He strives hard to keep them happy but encounters various obstacles in his endeavour.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2005-12-30
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Rama Shama Bhama
Overview: Rama, a married man, has an affair with Priya who pursues him despite knowing about his wife. When his friend Shama learns of the affair, the latter decides to reunite him with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2005-12-09
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Veluchami
Overview: Veluchami, an orphan, is raised by Periya Ayya along with his own daughter. When Periya decides to give away his daughter to the local temple, Veluchami marries her by force to save her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1995-01-15
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Pellaniki Premalekha Priyuraliki Subhalekha
Overview: A woman finds out that her husband is having an affair with an old college friend of hers. Soon, they hatch a plan to teach him a lesson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1992-06-09
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Bachchan
Overview: Bharat alias Bachchan is a kind-hearted real estate businessman, who is the MD of the Bharat Property Solutions. He is deeply in love with Anjali (Bhavana), who is doing MS in Bellary and wants to deliver honest service to the needy people. But her wish becomes an obstacle for a mining mafia don.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2013-04-11
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Muddina Maava
Overview: Vijay, a village chairman, marries a poor girl, Lakshmi, against his family's wish. Vijay's brother-in-law is enraged for not marrying his daughter and devises a plan to defame him.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Nagu Naguta Nali
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Sowbhagya Devathe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1996-01-24
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Oral Mathram
Overview: Shekhara Menon (Thilakan) is retired income tax officer from Mumbai and has now settled in a remote village in Kerala. He owns some land and a house where he and his three daughters live together and leads a calm, silent and happy life. Menon owns a smaller house adjacent to his own which is given for rent, Hareendran (Mammootty) is a struggling small time contractor and comes in as a new tenant to the rented house.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1997-06-22
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Amma Ninna Tolinalli
Overview: Amma Ninna Tolinalli movie tells about the relation between mother and child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Karpoorada Gombe
Overview: Karpoorada Gombe is a 2000 Kannada film directed by S Mahender and produced by Chandrashekhar. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, Shruti, Lokesh and Doddanna in lead roles. Music was composed by Hamsalekha.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-16
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Punda Prachanda
Overview: Punda Prachanda is a 1991 Kannada film directed by Sudhindra Kallola. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, Shruti, Vanitha Vasu and Lakshmi in lead roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-18
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C.B.I Shiva
Overview: Three educated but unemployed youths campaign for a politician and help him win an election. When the politician does not give them a job as promised, they hatch a plan to make him toe the line.
Genres: Action
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1991-07-18
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Kaatera
Overview: Set against the rustic backdrop of the 1970s, unfolds the tale of farmers confronting challenges that intricately shape the course of their lives.
Genres: Action Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2023-12-29
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Kalki
Overview: Chellammaa (Geetha), a singer, is wedded to a chauvinistic, sadistic industrialist named Prakash (Prakash Raj). She is unable to beget a child and hence is the target of hurting words from Prakash and his mother. When he prohibits her from singing, it is the last straw for her and they divorce. He marries Karpagam (Renuka), a doormat wife, while Chellammaa stays single, with a cook Kokila (newsreader Fathima Babu in her first movie appearance) around to help her. Kalki (Shruti) works in an ad agency and is relentlessly pursued by co-worker and model Paranjothi (Rahman) but she not only rejects him but debunks love and sentiments. Chellammaa becomes friends with Kalki after a few encounters and Kalki moves in as a paying guest. But she strikes up a friendship with Prakash and as the result of an affair with him, she ends up bearing his child. What happens of this leads up to the climax.
Genres: Romance Family Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-11-10
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Kottaram Veettile Apputtan
Overview: The film tells the story of a rich orphan - Apputtan, a generous and liberal man. He helps settle the financial woes of people in the village. He is attracted to a girl whose education he has been sponsoring. But her response to his love after becoming a doctor at his expense, was something Apputtan had least expected.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1998-11-30
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Gauri Ganesha
Overview: Lambodara, an unemployed witty young man takes advantage of weaknesses in people to his monetary benefit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-15
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Kalpana
Overview: Raghava is a fun-loving youngster who enjoys playing cricket with his friends. But at night he is afraid of ghosts and is always confined to his home under the care of his mother (Umashri). His brother (Achyuth Rao), sister-in-law (Shruthi) and their children live together in the same house. When Raghava and his friends go in search of another ground to play cricket, they find an abandoned field, which, it turns out, is haunted. At home, his mother and sister-in-law witness some strange happenings. With the help of a temple priest, they confirm the presence of a ghostly spirit haunting their home. Raghava begins to act funny and shows effeminate behaviour which is when the presence of the ghost is identified. The film goes on to unravel the mystery of the ghostly Kalpana and her relationship with Raghava.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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C.I. Mahadevan 5 Adi 4 Inch
Overview: Cochin Hanifa plays the title role of CI Mahadevan, who goes to a village where a bomb blast in a school bus has created terror in the hearts of the villagers. He is being assisted by a bunch of policemen working in the local police station. These policemen are more concerned about their personal matters than the problems faced by the public. How Mahadevan unravels the mystery behind the blast with the help of these policemen is the crux of the story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2004-02-21
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Alimayya
Overview: Anand reluctantly agrees to marry Lakshmi. Just when the two are settling into happy matrimony, trouble erupts owing to differences between their parents.
Genres: Family Romance Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Dandupalya 3
Overview: Director Srinivas Raju’s world of Dandupalya, as seen in the first two films of the series, will finally come to an end. The third film in the series will mark the end of the franchise, which has received a great deal of critical acclaim in both Kannada and Telugu.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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College Kumar
Overview: Shivakumar works as a peon in an office and strives to ensure that his son Kumar fulfils his dreams. When the pressure gets to Kumar, he starts to rebel against his father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Bhajarangi 2
Overview: When a group of lost villagers chance upon a Guruji at a shrine, he begins to narrate the story of two unlikely heroes, Anji and Bhajrangi, who lived across two different timelines.
Genres: Action Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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ACT-1978
Overview: Geetha, a pregnant widow, goes to a government office as part of her long and continuous ordeal to get money from a government scheme that is hers. What seems to be a normal day of bureaucracy and corruption goes awry when she lands up with a bomb strapped to her stomach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Ksheera Sagara
Overview: When Urmila, an actress, is murdered in cold blood, her lookalike, Usha, and Raju, an assistant director, fall in love as they set out to find the culprit.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1992-03-19
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Rambo
Overview: Car brokers Kitty and Premkumar come across a vehicle that contains a corpse. Soon, they learn that the body has a pen drive that holds information about a terrorist plot.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Urvashi
Overview: A 1995 kannada movie directed by Amardeva starring Nikhil and Shruthi in the lead roles. Based on the novel of same name by Goruru.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1995-08-07
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