Meenakshi Sheshadri

Meenakshi Sheshadri

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Meenakshi Sheshadri Profile

  • Name:
  • Meenakshi Sheshadri
  • Other Name:
  • Shashikala Seshadri
  • Born:
  • November 16, 1963
  • Spouse:
  • Harish

Meenakshi Sheshadri Biography

Meenakshi  Sheshadri is one among the most sought heroines of Bollywood in 1980’s. She was the youngest winner of Miss.India crown that time. When she won the Miss India title in 1981, she was only 17. Very soon she landed in film industry. Her first movie was a bi-lingual – Painter babu opposite Rajiv Goswami, youngest sibling of Manoj Kumar. But she rose to flame with the release of her second movie Hero paired with Jackie Shroff. It was directed by Subhash Ghai and was the debut movie of Jackie. Both the story line and songs were catchy. Songs like Tu Mera Jaanu Hai, Ding Dong and Lambi Judai hit the top 10 list that time.

 

Though she was a model she was a trained classical dancer too. She was proficient in Kathak, Kuchipudi, Bharat Natyam and Odissi. Now she is running an institution in New York that teaches these art forms. During her acting career she was paired opposite almost all leading actors of that time. Meenakshi was a common face at that time. She was famous for her dance steps in song picturation too. A few top movies of her career include Shehan Shah opposite Big B, Ghatak opposite Sunny Deol, Hero opposite Jackie Shroff, Damini opposite Rishi Kapoor, Admi khilowna hai opposite Govinda, Bewafai opposite Rajani kanth and Mere Jung opposite Anil kapoor.

 

As an actress, we witnessed different shades of this classically well trained actress through Damini. In this movie she played the role of a village girl who gets married to a businessman Rishi Kapoor. This movie handled the dedicate case of a rape victim and how Meenakshi fights against her whole family to give justice to her maid who was a minor. This movie released in 1993 was directed by Rajkumar Santhoshi who is famous for such films with discuss social issues and women empowerment.

 

In 1997, she was paired opposite Sunny Deol in Ghatak for which Sunny Deol earned his first national award. She acted in one more movie titled, Do rahein and left industry for ever marrying investment banker Harish. Now we shall wait for her return so that we can see her performances onscreen again.    

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Updated: May 28, 2018

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