Lakshmi (actress)

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Laxmi (sometimes credited as Lakshmi Narayan or just Lakshmi) is a South Indian actress, best known for her title role in the Hindi hit film Julie (1975 film) for which she won the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

[edit] Career

Her mother was an actress, and her father was also involved in films, and they eased her into films. She was only fifteen when she started acting in films. She became a star in South India in the 1970s and has acted in all four South Indian languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. Her Malayalam hit Chattakari (1974) was remade in Hindi as Julie (1975) and in Telugu as Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). After her success in "Julie," however, she didn't make many Hindi films and instead concentrated on doing more South Indian films. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for the Tamil film Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (1977). When her career as a leading lady ended in the 1980s, she started playing supporting roles as mother. In the 1990s, she played the grandmother role in Jeans (1998). She has also been involved in politics.

[edit] Personal life

Laxmi was married three times. Her first husband was Baskar, a marriage that was arranged by her parents when she was seventeen. Her only child, Aishwarya, was born in the early 1970s. Her marriage ended in divorce, and she gained custody of her daughter, who later became an actress in the 1990s. Laxmi fell in love with her Chattakari leading man named Mohan, but that relationship ended. While she was shooting "Yen Uyir Kannamma," she and actor-director Sivachandran fell in love and got married. But that marriage ended in divorce.^[1]. She was married to her third husband. Her daughter gave birth to a baby girl in the late 1990s, making Laxmi into a real-life grandmother. She is now hosting a talk show called "achamillai, achamillai". Laxmi is dubbed as the south indian Oprah Winfrey. She has been crictised for advising others on the show as she herself did not have a rosy life. She was also crictised for marrying three times and still be able to live with dignity.

[edit] References

http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/facts/19-06-98/lovemari.htm