Prema (Kannada actress)

Prema (born Neravanda Chetticha Prema on 6 January 1977) is an Indian film actress. She has worked as a lead actress in numerous Kannada films besides Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films. She has appeared in many commercially successful and critically acclaimed feature films. She was a top Kannada heroine at the turn of the century and has received the Karnataka State Film Award and Filmfare Best Actress awards for her performances in Kannada films. She has featured in Om and Yajamana, which are the two major blockbuster and highest-grossing films of their time in Kannada Cinema.

Prema
Born
Neravanda Chetticha Prema

(1977-01-06) 6 January 1977
Bangalore, India
OccupationActress
Years active1994–2009
2017–Present

She has shared screen space with stalwarts like Vishnuvardhan, Shivrajkumar, V. Ravichandran, Upendra, Saikumar, Ramesh Aravind, Mohanlal, Vikram, Venkatesh, Jagapati Babu and Mohan Babu. She has also starred opposite many newer actors in her career.

Personal life

Prema was born on 6 January 1977 into Neravanda family, of the Kodava community to Chetticha and Kavery, in military hospital, Bangalore. She received high school education in Mahila Seva Samaja High School and completed her Pre-university course in Murnad junior college, Kodagu. As a student she was involved actively in sports and represented her school and college in high jump and volleyball events at the national level.[1] Her younger brother Neravanda Aiyappa was a cricket player who represented Karnataka in Ranji Trophy. Her younger sister Indu NC lives in Dubai.[2] Prema is married to Jeevan Appacchu. She recently filed a divorce petition against him in the Family Court, Bangalore in March 2016.[2][3][4]

Film career

Prema began her career in the Rajkumar camp in 1995 starring opposite Shivarajkumar in Savyasachi and Raghavendra Rajkumar with Aata Hudugaata respectively. Though both films did not perform well at the box-office, she was given the lead role in yet another Shivarajkumar starrer Om directed by Upendra. The film turned out to be a blockbuster and also got her the Karnataka State Award for Best Actress.

In 1996 she acted in the Sunil Kumar Desai directed Nammoora Mandara Hoove co-starring Shivarajkumar and Ramesh Aravind. In the same year, she branched out to Malayalam and Telugu film industries. Her Malayalam debut in The Prince opposite Mohanlal. Dharma Chakram was her Telugu debut film.

In 1999 she starred in hit films which catapulted her to the top spot in Kannada movie. Chandramuki Pranasakhi, Upendra and V. Ravichandran's Naanu Nanna Hendthiru in Kannada and the Telugu language film, Devi which collected Rs. 18 crores at the box-office and was dubbed into Hindi as well.

2000 saw 6 releases of her films of which Yajamana opposite Vishnuvardhan was a runaway hit

2001 proved lucky again with the female-centric Kanasugara, the remake of Tamil film Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen, which fetched her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She also won other awards for her portrayal of a simple girl who becomes a famous singer.

Her main release in 2002 was Sunil Kumar Desai's musical Parva co-starring Vishnuvardhan and Roja Selvamani. In 2003, she was praised by critics for her complex role in Singaaravva. In 2004, in Apthamitra, the remake of Malayalam Manichitrathazhu by P. Vasu, though her role was secondary to that of the legend star Soundarya, Prema played the leading lady of Vishnuvardhan.

She shared screen space with Vishnuvardhan in seven films - Yajamana, Apthamitra, Jamindaru, Kshana Kshana, Ekadantha, Parva, Ellaranthalla Nanna Ganda.

Post her marriage in 2006, Prema cut down her film assignments. Her last release was Shishira in 2009.

She has, thus far, acted in more than 70 movies in Kannada and more than 28 movies in Telugu. In 2017 she made her comeback in Upendra matte baa.

Awards

Filmography
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year NoFilmRoleLanguageNotes
1995 1SavyasachiKannada
2OmMadhuriKannadaKarnataka State Film Award for Best Actress
3Aata HudugaataKannada
4Police PowerKannada
1996 5Nammoora Mandara HooveSumaKannadaUdaya Film Award for Best Actress
6Gaajina ManeKannada
7The PrinceSwarnaMalayalam
8Dharma ChakramSurekhaTelugu
9Jagadeka VeeruduPremaTelugu
10Adirindi GuruTelugu
1997 11Atta Nee Koduku JagrattaTelugu
12Korukunna PriyuduTelugu
13ChelikaaduLikhitaTelugu
14OmkaramTelugu
15Ellaranthalla Nanna GandaKannada
1998 16Thutta MuttaPoojaKannada
17KauravaKannada
18Shanti Shanti ShantiSuzyKannada
19Maa Avida CollectorTelugu
20Dheerga Sumnagali BhavaTelugu
21Kangalin VaarthaigalTamil
1999 22Chandramukhi PranasakhiSahanaKannadaCinema Express Award for Best Actress
23ChandrodayaDivyaKannada
24Naanu Nanna HendthiruManishaKannada
25UpendraKannada
26ZPremaKannada
27DeviDeviTeluguGemini Film award for Best Actress
28Raghavayya Gari AbbayiTelugu
29Eetharam NehruTelugu
2000 30Naga DevatheKannada
31Maya BazaarKannada
32Nuvve KavaliTeluguCameo appearance
33Ammo Okato TaarikuTelugu
34Rayalaseema Ramanna ChowdaryNagasulochanaTelugu
35Nannavalu NannavaluKannadaAsianet Kaveri Film Award for Best Actress
(also for Yajamana and Chandramuki Pranasakhi)[5]
36Chiru NavvuthoTelugu
37Uttara Dhruvadim Dakshina DhruvakuNandiniKannnada
38YajamanaSangeethaKannadaETV Film Award for Best Actress
39Daivathinte MakanAnjaliMalayalam
2001 40Anjali GeethanjaliAnjaliKannada
41KanasugaraKannadaFilmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada
42Premi No.1Kannada
43Kothigalu Saar KothigaluKannada
44Grama DevatheKaveriKannada
45NeelambariKannada
46Prematho RaaSandhyaTelugu
47Devi PutruduGoddessTelugu
2002 48BalaramaKannada
49ChelviChelviKannada
50TaporiKannada
51JamindaruKannada
52MarmaSudhaKannada
53ParvaSumaKannada
54KambalahalliKannada
55MutthuKannada
56PremaPremaKannada
57SingaaravvaSingaravvaKannada
2003 58Mooru Manasu Nooru KanasuKannada
59Ai Naan Bhishma KanoKannada
60Sri Renuka DeviKannada
61Ananda NilayaKannada
62VijayadashamiKannada
63Thaye BhuvaneshwariTamil
64Lavve PasagaliKannada
65Janaki Weds SriramTelugu
2004 66ApthamitraSoumyaKannada
67AzhagesanNandhiniTamil
2005 68Inspector JhansiJhansiKannada
69RanachandiKannada
70Pandu Ranga VittalaKannada
71Devi AbhayamTelugu
72AyodhyaTelugu
2006 73A Aa E EeKannada
2007 74EkadanthaBhaktiKannada
75Kshana KshanaPhalguniKannada
76DheeTelugu
2008 77SundarakandaSeethaTelugu
78 Navashakthi Vaibhava Goddess Chamundeshwari Kannada
79KrishnarjunaTelugu
2009 80Anjani PutruduTelugu
81ShishiraKannada
2017 82Upendra Matte BaaSathyabhamaKannada[6]

References
  1. Lasrado, Richard. "Madikeri: Keen on a Silver-screen Comeback, Talented Prema Trashes Rumours of Illness". mangalorean.com. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  2. "Prema weds Jeevan!". Sify. 24 March 2006. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. "Actress Prema files for divorce". ManoramaOnline. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  4. "Kannada actress Prema files for divorce". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  5. "Lifetime Achievement award for Rajkumar". The Times of India. 14 May 2001. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  6. Sharadhaa, A. (23 May 2016). "Upendra, Prema combination back after 17 years". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
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