The Modern Savithri of South Indian Industry

The Modern Savithri of South Indian Industry

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Some of the celebrities are remembered for their natural acting and immaculate beauty. Soundharya Raghu the amazing actress will always remain in people hearts.

This Kannada beauty’s childhood name was Saumya Satyanarayan and born on 18th July 1972 at Bangalore. She discontinued her M.B.B.S. and then married to G. S. Raghu, who is a Software Engineer.  Within a few years, she was able to rule the southern film industry and worked with top stars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna, Ramesh Arvind, Venkatesh, and Mohanlal. Soundarya and Venkatesh took the holy bondage in the film such as Pavithra Bhandham, Intlo Illalu Vantintlo Priyuralu and any more. This onscreen couple stayed forever live in audience hearts as Sharukh khan and Kajol in Bollywood. She was probably the most successful actress after Savitri in the history of Telugu cinema and is often called “Savitri of modern Telugu cinema” because of her screen presence and phenomenal success.

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She was the successful heroine of the movie industry and renowned as the Queen of Telugu cinema in her popular years of success and the industry considered her as the golden hand for her tremendous success. Soundarya’s first movie was the Kannada film Gandharva in 1992. She was one of the most prominent actresses of 1990’s. Through her versatile acting skills of her times, she always holds the responsible roles in her movies. She preferred performance-oriented roles and took a tough stand on glamor, throughout her career. These unique features worked out completely in her favor and struck a chord with a wide audience base, earning her immense popularity in the state of Andhra Pradesh. She made 114 movies, predominantly in Telugu, in a span of twelve years. Her immaculate beauty and performances made her on of the successful commercial heroines.

Her performance made her cast around 10 film releases each year, most of them in Telugu, from 1993 to 2001, which reflects her path a breaking success. After the entry of next generation, her career path slowed down a bit, but even later she went on acting seven films each year till 2004. Besides being acknowledged for her skill, her directors and co-stars describe her as an honest, grounded and loving person.

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Kannada Actress Soundarya is also well known for her philanthropic activities. She used to participate in the Public Welfare Programs. She has entirely developed village named Gangigunte in Mallibagilu Taluk which belongs to Kolar District.Not only this she also had an orphanage under her brother Amarnath’s guidance.

Kannada Actress Soundarya always wished of doing well for the publicAmara Soundarya Social and Educational Trust which is also known as ASSET which was found and being run by Soundarya’s Husband Raghu and her sister in law Nirmala Amarnath. In addition, the school, Amara Soundarya Vidyalaya, is maintained by her trust i.e. ASSET and her own home in Dollar’s Colony in Bengaluru is now being used as a school.

For her astounding performance, Soundarya received many awards in various languages. She received “National Film Award for Best Feature Film” as the best producer in 2003, five Film fare awards as the best actress in five years and three Nandi Awards for the best actress.

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During the peaks of her career, this beautiful Actress died in plane crash in Jakkur aero drum. She was about to leave to Karim Nagar in Andhra Pradesh. But unfortunately, Kannada Actress Soundarya died in the plane crash along with her brother Amarnath in the year 2004. It was a very ridiculous and cruel ending of this amazing actress who had wide popularity and tremendous goodwill among Andhra Pradesh.

Though it’s been years, soundarya’s performance and beauty made her stay forever in audience hearts and the Telugu movie industry still didn’t forget the roles she starred with her innocent smile.