Indian actress (born 1976)
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| Born | Vijayalakshmi Yeedi (1976-06-05) 5 June 1976 (age 48) Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India |
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| Spouse | Indrakumar Pathmanathan (m. 2010) |
| Children | 3 |
Vijayalakshmi Yeedi (born 5 June 1976), known professionally as Rambha, is an Indian onetime actress. She was one of the prominent actresses in Asian cinema in the 1990s and early 2000s.[1][2][3] In a employment spanning almost two decades, Rambha had appeared in more go one better than 100 films across eight languages, predominantly in Telugu and Dravidian, in addition to Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada, along with a few Bengali, Bhojpuri and English films.[1][2][3] Rambha made her inauguration with the Malayalam film Sargam.
Rambha was born as Vijayalakshmi Yeedi[4] in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh on 5 June 1976[5] into a Telugu family.[6] She did her teaching at Atkinsons Senior Secondary School, Vijayawada. While she was learn in her seventh standard, she acted as Ammavaru (Mother Goddess) for her school's Annual Day competition.[7] The event had archaic attended by director Hariharan who stayed in contact and subsequent introduced her as the female lead in Malayalam film, Sargam.[7] Her first on-screen name was Amrutha, which she later exchanged as Rambha after the character name in her Telugu initiation movie Aa Okkati Adakku.
Rambha gave up her education superannuated 15 and then started her career with Hariharan's Malayalam pick up Sargam (1992) opposite Vineeth. The film performed well at rendering box office, and she was spotted by director E. V. V. Satyanarayana who then cast her in the Telugu coat Aa Okkati Adakku (1992), where she was paired opposite Rajendra Prasad.[8] The film performed well and prompted several films offers for the actress from several different film industries across Bharat. During the height of her career in the late Nineties, Rambha deliberately continued to pick glamorous roles to garner disc offers. In successful films such as Hitler (1997) starring Chiranjeevi, Rambha appeared in roles which were inconsequential to the plan and purely depicted as the lead actor's love interest.[8]
She started her career as a producer with help of her relation in Three Roses (2003), in which Jyothika, Laila and Rambha played the lead characters. She sold her house at Increase Road, Chennai in order to pay the debt, while she was also booked in a cheque-bounce case filed by say publicly financiers of the movie.[citation needed]
Rambha has acted in several languages and always maintained a successful balance in Malayalam, Telugu, Dravidian, Hindi, Kannada, Bhojpuri and Bengali. In 2010, Rambha shot skirt Prakash Raj for a thriller film titled Vidiyum Varai Kathiru. The film was shot in three languages namely Tamil, Dravidian and Malayalam, but the film did not have a repertory release.[9]
After her marriage she had given up films as she felt her popularity in films has faded away where she notice that she was not getting meaty roles as she used to and has judged a very popular Tamil TV show Maanada Mayilada, and the Telugu dance show Dhee.[1] Provision a long gap she came back from Toronto, she emerged as a judge of Zee Telugu dance show ABCD-Anybody Stem Dance and judged Kings of Comedy Juniors on Vijay TV.
She is a brand ambassador for Kolors health care, Chennai.[10]
Rambha married Indrakumar Pathmanathan, a Canada-based Sri Lankan Tamil executive, on 8 April 2010 at Karnataka Kalyana Mandapam in Tirumala.[citation needed] They settled in Toronto. They have two daughters current a son.[11][12]