Malashri

About Malashri

Malashri is an actor working in Kannada cinema and Telugu cinema. Clapnumber holds 48 titles for Malashri, from Neela Malargal in 1979 to Night Curfew in 2024. By decade, that is 1 in the 1970s, 4 in the 1980s, 35 in the 1990s, 3 in the 2000s, 3 in the 2010s and 1 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly action and drama.

Biography

Malashree (born Sridurga Pandey) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Kannada cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Telugu and Tamil language films. "She has appeared in 100 and more films in a career spanning three decades." . She began her career as a child artiste and starred in the 1979 Tamil film Imayam. She made her debut as an adult in the 1989 Kannada-language film Nanjundi Kalyana. In the following years, she established herself as one of Kannada cinema's top heroines. She had been called, by the media and fans, "Kanasina Rani" (Queen of dreams). She is popular for playing diverse roles in women-centric movies many of which were highly successful at the box-office. Her debut film Nanjundi Kalyana with Raghavendra Rajkumar was a major box office success, which was her breakthrough. Throughout the '90s, she starred in several successful films like: Gajapathi Garvabhanga (1989), Policena Hendthi (1990), Kitturina Huli (1990), Rani Maharani (1990), Mruthyunjaya (1990), Hrudaya Haadithu (1991), Ramachaari (1991), Belli Kalungura (1992), Solillada Saradara (1993) and Gadibidi Aliya (1995), establishing herself as one of the top heroines of the Kannada film industry. In 1992, she starred in 19 films, breaking the 24-year-old record of highest releases in Kannada in a lead role in a single year, held by Dr. Rajkumar. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1991 for her performance as a young woman inflicted with an incurable heart disease in the movie Hrudaya Haadithu. In 2015, she won her first Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress for her action-oriented role in Ganga.