

They acted together in more than 25 films. Nag and Lakshmi are considered one of the all-time greatest pairs in South Indian cinema. She has acted with almost all the leading actors and stars of South India, but it was her combination with the famous Kannada star Anant Nag in the 70s and 80s that struck a chord with the audience. She won Filmfare Awards for Best Actress for her performances in Chalanum and Mohiniyaattam. Īfter the success of her debut Malayalam film Chattakari, she starred in many other films in Malayalam. Her acting in the Telugu film Panthulamma is often credited as one of her best performances. She is known for her versatility as an actress and for the glamorous outlook she embodied. In addition to a Filmfare Best Actress Award, she also won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for the "most outstanding work of the year", for her work in Julie. Chattakari (1974) was remade in Hindi as Julie (1975) and in Telugu as Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). This has the distinction of being the first Malayalam film to run continuously for 40 weeks in a Bangalore theatre.
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Lakshmi rose to fame with her first Malayalam movie Chattakari (1974), which won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress. She established herself as a successful and popular actress in South India in the 1970s, acting in all four South Indian languages: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Her father, Yaragudipati Varada Rao, was a Telugu producer, director, thespian, screenwriter, editor and actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil cinema. Her mother Kumari Rukmini was a Tamil actress. Lakshmi was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.


Her performance in Mithunam (2012) is regarded as one of the "100 Greatest Performances of the Decade" by Film Companion. In 1974, Her debut Malayalam film, Chattakari went on to become a blockbuster throughout India. In the same year, she also debuted in Kannada and Telugu films with Goa Dalli CID 999 and Bandhavyalu, respectively. Her debut as an actress happened with the Tamil film Jeevanaamsam in 1968. She made her film debut through a Tamil film Sri Valli in 1961. Mahalakshmi (born 13 December 1952), known professionally as Lakshmi, is an Indian actress known for her works primarily in the southern film industry (distributing her acting career in almost each Dravidian language equally), along with some Hindi films.
