indian celebrities: Sumalatha

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Sumalatha

Sumalatha began acting at age 15, after winning an Andhra Pradesh beauty contest in 1979. She appeared in many Tamil and Telugufilms early in her career. She was Rajinikanth's second heroine besides Rati Agnihotri in films like Murattu Kaalai and Kazhugu. Most of her Telugu films are with Chiranjeevi.She received the best actress Nandi Award for her role in Sruthilayalu in 1987. She is a close friend of actress Suhasini Maniratnam, her co-star in a Telugu movie. The friendship between the two provided the material for a candid scene in the film, when director Kodandarami Reddy noticed Suhasini combing Sumalatha's long hair on the train journey to the film set. Reddy asked his cameraman, Ashok Reddy, to film the two and added the scene to the movie's final cut.^[1]Sumalatha reportedly speaks six languages, and has acted in four.