Madhu Shalini is an Indian film actress and model, who has appeared in Telugu and Tamil language films

Tamil cinema

Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...

. She has previously worked as a television anchor as well.

Career

Madhu Shalini was born and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, her father being a businessman and her mother an advocate. Like her mother she also learned Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi is a Classical Indian dance form Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also popular all over South India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka of Krishna district that borders the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form, it acquired the...

, before taking part in a beauty contest, which she incidentally won and which paved her way for a modelling career. After working as a television anchor for a short while, she soon ventured into film business, turning an actress.

She made her feature film debut with the 2005 Telugu film Naa Pranam Kante Ekkuva directed by music composer Shashi Preetam, which was largely panned by critics. Her next film, E. V. V. Satyanarayana's Kithakithalu

Kithakithalu

Kithakithalu is a comedy genre telugu movie which was released for summer 2006 and tickled the whole Telugu film industry aka Tollywood and fared well at box-office...

opposite Allari Naresh

Allari Naresh

Allari Naresh is an Indian film actor who stars in Tollywood films. He is the son of Telugu veteran director and producer EVV Satyanarayana. He got the tag Allari before his name after the success of his first film. But his debut film in Tamil, Kurumbu which was a remake of Allari.-Film...

, released in 2006, went to become a very successful venture. The same year, she had appeared in two more Telugu films, namely Teja's

Teja (film director)

Teja is an Indian film director, writer, producer and cinematographer. He directed many blockbusters Such as Jayam, Nijam, Nuvvu Nenu, Chitram etc. He is one of the most popular and top directors of tollywood. He has won many awards. Director Teja made a slam-bang entry into Tollywood with a...

 Oka V Chitram as part of an ensemble cast, and Aganthakudu. 2007 she starred in the Telugu action comedy State Rowdy, a remake of the successful Tamil K. S. Ravikumar

K. S. Ravikumar

K. S. Ravikumar is an Indian film director and actor, primarily working in Tamil cinema. He has directed numerous films ranging from comedy and drama to action thrillers. His film Dasavathaaram went on to gross $16 million worldwide in the first four weeks and eventually became one of the...

-directorial Ethiri, with Madhu Shalini essaying a Brahmin girl character, played by Kanika in the original. She made her Tamil film debut later that year with the low-budget feature Pazhaniappa Kalloori, which released without publicity and vanished shortly.

She later signed to play the lead female in D. Sabhapathy

Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy

Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy, also known and credited as S. D. Saba, and Saba Kailash, is a Indian film director, mainly working in the Tamil film industry.-Filmography:-External links:...

's Telugu project Happy Journey, while she also agreed to appear in the director's next Tamil venture, Pathinaaru, which, despite being heavily delayed, became her next release. Though the film received mixed reviews and fared averagely at the box office, Madhu Shalini's performance as Indhu received positive reviews, with critics citing that she performed her role "with consummate ease", was "adequate in her role", and acted "like a pro". Her subsequent release, Karalu Miriyalu, likewise, released to negative reviews, while her performance, however, met with favorable remarks from critics, with one reviewer claiming that she "looks pretty and dishes out a pleasing work", further noting that it was a pity that she does not get to work in any "big projects". She eventually got her big break as she was cast by noted National Film Award-winning filmmaker Bala

Bala (director)

Bala is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Bala is frequently credited with having "revolutionized Tamil cinema", through his realistic, dark and disturbing films that have garnered high critical acclaim...

 for his comedy flick Avan Ivan

Avan Ivan

Avan Ivan is a 2011 Tamil comedy-drama film written and directed by Bala, who with this project directs his fifth feature film. The film stars Vishal Krishna, Arya, Janani Iyer and Madhu Shalini in the lead roles. The film, produced by Kalpathi S. Agoram's AGS Entertainment, features music by...

. She disclosed that Bala selected her without even audition

Audition

An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performing artist.Audition may also refer to:* The sense of hearing* Adobe Audition, audio editing software...

ing her, after numerous girls were auditioned for the role, with none of them measuring up to Bala's expectations. Madhu Shalini would play a college student in the film, for which she did not apply any makeup, while also dubbing

Dubbing (filmmaking)

Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...

 for herself for the first time. She has been signed by Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer...

 for his upcoming directorial Department

Department (film)

Department is an upcoming Hindi-language film directed and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film was expected to go on floors by 20 June 2011.-Cast:* Amitabh Bachchan as Sarjerao Gaikwad , plays the role of a ex-criminal turned politician....

, which would mark her debut in Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 and feature her as a female gangster

Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster....

 alongside Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

, Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...

 and Rana Daggubati

Rana Daggubati

Rana Daggubati is an Indian actor. Better known as Rana, he was born on 14 December 1984 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is the son of film producer D. Suresh Babu, the latter being the elder son of D. Ramanaidu. Venkatesh is D. Ramanaidu's younger son. Rana is also nephew of another Tollywood actor...

.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2005	Andarivaadu Andarivaadu Andarivaadu is a 2005 Tollywood comedy film directed by Srinu Vytla. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Rimi Sen, Tabu and Prakash Raj. This movie was a disaster. Till date it was the only unanimous critically panned film in Srinu's career...		Telugu Telugu language Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...	Special appearance
	Naa Pranam Kante Ekkuva	Chandrika	Telugu
	Nayakudu Nayakudu Nayakudu may refer to :* Damarla Chennappa Nayakudu was a Telugu Nayaka of Srikalahasti and Vandavasi.* Katha Nayakudu - 1969 Telugu film.* Vishwanatha Nayakudu - 1987 Telugu film....		Telugu	Special appearance
2006	Kithakithalu Kithakithalu Kithakithalu is a comedy genre telugu movie which was released for summer 2006 and tickled the whole Telugu film industry aka Tollywood and fared well at box-office...	Rambha	Telugu
	Oka V Chitram		Telugu
	Aganthakudu	Chitra	Telugu
2007	State Rowdy	Vimala Sarma	Telugu
	Pazhaniappa Kalloori	Malli	Tamil Tamil language Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
2008	King King (2008 film) King is a 2008 Indian Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna, Trisha Krishnan, Arjan Bajwa , and Mamta Mohandas. The film was directed by Sreenu Vaitla and produced by D Sivaprasad Reddy.-Plot:...		Telugu
2011	Pathinaaru	Indhu	Tamil
	Kaaralu Miriyalu	Shreya Aravind	Telugu
	Avan Ivan Avan Ivan Avan Ivan is a 2011 Tamil comedy-drama film written and directed by Bala, who with this project directs his fifth feature film. The film stars Vishal Krishna, Arya, Janani Iyer and Madhu Shalini in the lead roles. The film, produced by Kalpathi S. Agoram's AGS Entertainment, features music by...	Thenmozhi	Tamil
	Happy Journey		Telugu	Post-production
	Department Department (film) Department is an upcoming Hindi-language film directed and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film was expected to go on floors by 20 June 2011.-Cast:* Amitabh Bachchan as Sarjerao Gaikwad , plays the role of a ex-criminal turned politician....	Naseer	Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Filming

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