Bhumika Chawla

Bhumika Chawla (Telugu: భూమిక చావ్లా , Tamil: பூமிகா சாவ்லா, Hindi:भूमिका चावला, Urdu: بھُومِکا چاولا ; born 21 August 1978 as Rachna Chawla) is an Indian actress. She made her film debut in the Telugu film Yuvakudu (2000) and has since then worked in various Indian film industries and appeared in over thirty films in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi andMalayalam. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed performances in Kushi, Tere Naam, Missamma, Gandhi, My Father and Sathyabhama.Early life

Chawla was born in a Punjabi family in New Delhi, India and completed her schooling there. Her father was an Army officer. She moved toMumbai in 1997 and started her career with ad films and Hindi music video albums. She appeared in the Zee TV series Hip Hip Hurray.^[1]

[edit]Career

Chawla started off her film career in the Telugu film industry, starring in the feature film Yuvakudu (2000) alongside actor Sumanth. Her second release, Kushi (2001), in which she starred opposite Pawan Kalyan was a box office success, following which she acted in several films in Telugu, including Okkadu (2003) opposite Mahesh Babu and Simhadri (2003) opposite Jr. NTR, which became two of the year's highest grossers in Telugu.^[2] Meanwhile, she made her debut in the Tamil film industry as well, starring in the film Badri (2001) opposite actorVijay, which was followed by her second Tamil film Roja Kootam (2002).

After a number of critically and commercially successful films in the South, Chawla starred in her first Bollywood film, Tere Naam (2003), alongside Salman Khan. The film was one of the year's highest grossers. It was a critical success and her performance in the film won her many positive notices as well as several nominations for Best Debut at different award ceremonies. She was nominated for her first Filmfare Best Actress Award and won the Best Debut trophy at the Zee Cine Awards ceremony.^[3]

Subsequently, she got to star in a number of Hindi films as Run (2004), a remake of the same-named Tamil film, Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa(2004), again opposite Salman Khan, Silsilay (2005) and Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005) alongside Amitabh Bachchan. She returned to Telugu, acting in the films Naa Autograph (2004) (a remake of the Tamil film Autograph) and Jai Chiranjeeva, alongside Chiranjeevi and Sameera Reddy. Whilst Chawla's performance in the former won her accolades and the CineMAA Jury Award for Best Actress, the latter went to become a super hit film.

In 2006, Chawla appeared in the Tamil film Jillendru Oru Kadhal, alongside real-life couple Surya and Jyothika, whilst playing a vital role in the Hindi film Family - Ties of Blood, in which she shared screen space with Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, and starring in the Telugufantasy film, Mayabazar. Following which, she acted in the Hindi film Gandhi, My Father as Gulab Gandhi and enacted the title roles in the Telugu films Sathyabhama, in which she played a woman who suffers from short-term memory loss,^[4] and Anasuya, a crime thriller, and in the Bhojpuri film, Gangotri, a sequel to the successful 2006 Bhojpuri film Ganga, acting again alongside Amitabh Bachchan.

In 2008, she made her debut in the Punjabi film industry, starring in Yaariyan, opposite Gurdas Maan, following which she debuted inMalayalam as well, starring in Bhramaram alongside Mohanlal. Currently, she is working on half-a-dozen films in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, which include Thangar Bachan's Kalavadiya Pozhudugal opposite Prabhu Deva in Tamil, Yagam alongside Navdeep and Sathyaraj in Telugu and Classmates, a remake of the same-named Malayalam film, in Hindi.

[edit]Personal life

Bhumika Chawla married her long-time boyfriend and noted Yoga expert and teacher Bharat Thakur on 21 October 2007 at Devlali, Nashik in a Gurdwara.Her elder brother is an army officer.Her elder sister is married.^[5] She went regularly to Thakur's courses and is said to have dated him for four years, before eventually marrying him.^[6]

[edit]Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2000	Yuvakudu	Sindhu	Telugu
2001	Badri	Janaki	Tamil
	Khushi	Madhumitha	Telugu	Winner, Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actress
	Snehamante Idera	Yuvrani Padmini	Telugu
2002	Roja Koottam	Mano	Tamil
	Vasu	Divya	Telugu
2003	Okkadu	Swapna Reddy	Telugu
	Missamma	Meghana	Telugu	Winner, Nandi Award for Best Actress
	Simhadri	Indu	Telugu
	Tere Naam	Nirjana Bharadwaj	Hindi	Winner, Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Actress Nominated - Star Screen Award for Best Actress
	Aadanthe Ado Type		Telugu	Special appearance
2004	Run	Jhanvi Choudhry	Hindi
	Samba	Nandu	Telugu
	Naa Autograph	Divya	Telugu	Winner, CineMAA Jury Award for Best Actress
	Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa	Dhani	Hindi
2005	Silsilay	Zia Rao	Hindi
	Dil Jo Bhi Kahey...	Dr. Gayarti Pandey	Hindi
	Jai Chiranjeeva	Neelima	Telugu
2006	Sillunu Oru Kaadhal	Ishwarya	Tamil
	Family - Ties of Blood	Dr. Kavita	Hindi
	Mayabazaar	Anupama	Telugu
2007	Gandhi, My Father	Gulab Gandhi	Hindi
	Sathyabhama	Sathyabhama	Telugu	Winner, Nandi Special Jury Award
	Gangotri	Gangotri	Bhojpuri
	Anasuya	Anasuya	Telugu	Winner, Santosham Best Actress Award
2008	Swagatham	Vidhya KK	Telugu
	Mallepuvvu	Malleshwari Kanneganti (Malli)	Telugu
	Yaariyan	Simran	Punjabi
2009	Bhramaram	Jaya	Malayalam
	Naa Style Veru	Parvati	Telugu
	Amaravathi	Amaravathi	Telugu
2010	Yagam	Nandini	Telugu
	Thakita Thakita	Professor	Telugu
	Collector Gaari Bharya	Indira Gautam	Telugu
	Kalavadiya Pozhudugal	Jayanthi	Tamil	Filming
	Bheeshma		Telugu	Filming
	Alivelu Manga	Alivelu Manga	Telugu	Filming
	Rathrimazha		Malayalam	Filming
	Classmates		Hindi	Delayed

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