Meera Jasmine (born Jasmine Mary Joseph on 15 February 1984) is an Indian actress from Kerala. She won India's National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her role in 2003 Malayalam film Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilaapam. Meera Jasmine is the highest paid Malayalam actress.[citation needed]
Born as Jasmine Mary Joseph to Joseph Philip and Aleyamma in Kuttappuzha, Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. She is a Syrian Christian by birth.She has two sisters and two brothers. She completed her schooling in Mar Thoma Residential School in Tiruvalla, before her entry into films.
A chance meeting with Malayalam screenwriter Lohithadas gave way to her debut in Malayalam Cinema through the film Soothradharan in 2001.
Soothradharan did not do well at the box office. However, she continued to receive offers from Malayalam and Tamil film-makers, including the 2002 Tamil films Run and Bala.The success of Run made her a well-known star in Kollywood. She acted in a number of Tamil movies with...
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Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram is a Tamil-language movie directed by Suresh Krishna and released in 2007. It stars Dhanush in the lead role and he is supported by Meera Jasmine and Archana. The music was rendered by Gurukiran. It is a remake of Kannada film, Jogi. The movie revolved around a woman who comes to the city from her village in search of her presumably lost son. Azhagu Sundaram (Dhanush) is a young village lad who is the only son of his parents. His mother (Archana) dotes on him. Azhagu's father dies of some disease and he moves to Chennai in search of a job. Sequence of events leads to Azhagu Sundaram being re-christened as Parrattai and is forced to wield the knife. From an innocent youth from a rural area, he goes on to become a gangster. As ever, he is the don with the heart of gold, who commands respect from people around him. Meanwhile Parattai's mother leaves her village in search of her son and comes to the city. Are they destined to meet each other? The search,...
Thirumagan (2006) is a forthcoming Tamil film directed by Ratnakumar. The film stars S.J. Suryah, Meera Jasmine, Malavika, Karthika and Prreethi Varma in the lead roles. The film will be shot completely in Tirunelveli. The film is said to be village story based on the relationships between a father and son. ...
Aakasha Gopuram is a forthcoming Malayalam film directed by famous director K.P.Kumaran. The film stars Mohanlal in lead. Nitya is the heroine. This film is inspired from the renowned Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen's play named Master Builder. Bollywood film producer Manu Kumaran is producing this film and expected to be shot in England. Aakasha Gopuram is scheduled for 2007 October release is also preparing to participate in many International film festivals including Berlin and Cannes film festival in next January.Other than Mohanlal and Nitya, Bharat Gopi, Manoj.K.Jayan, Srinivasan, Geethu Mohandas and Shwetha Menon are also doing major roles in this film. The film is shot in London. Director of Photography : Santosh ThundiyilThe film has a unique theme and has romance,lust and greed. It has a philosophical vein too. A new combination of Mohanlal and Nitya is seen in this film....
Bhadra(Telugu: భద్ర) is a Telugu film released on May 12,2005 and was directed by debutant director Boyapati Srinu. Ravi Teja and Meera Jasmine played the lead roles. The film was later remade into Tamil as Saravana with Silambarasan and Jyothika. Linda Arsenio danced in an item number.Bhadra (Ravi Teja) and Raja (Deepak) are the thickest of friends. Noticing Raja's beautiful sister Anu (Meera Jasmine) he visits his village to impress the girl. He gets along well with the family, in the meanwhile convinces them that he would make a prospective groom for Anu. When things fall are about to fall in place, rival factionist Veerayya (Pradeep Rawat) eliminates all members of Anu's family except her. Bhadra takes up the responsibility of Anu as he promised their family before their death. In the process, he also becomes a rival of Veerayya as he kills his younger brother (Subbaraju) and protects Anu. How he tackles the villain, and wins the lady's heart forms the remaining story.
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Sandakozhi (2005) is a Tamil film directed by debutant Lingusamy. The film stars Vishal, Meera Jasmine, Rajkiran, Lal and Suman Shetty. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film has become one of the huge hits in 2005. It is produced by GK Films Corporation. The story is about Balu (Vishal), who on a visit to his friend’s town, takes on the local dada Kasi (Lal). Balu, an engineering student, also falls in love with his friend’s sister Hema (Meera Jasmine). Kasi, after being at the receiving end of Balu’s macho ways, is smarting under the rebuff. He thirsts for revenge. So when Balu goes back to his own city, Kasi also goes there to extract blood for blood. But Balu is from no ordinary family. His father Dorai (Raj Kiran) is himself a powerful leader in his domain. So taking out Balu is not such an easy task. But Kasi wants revenge at any cost. So what happens? It is all action and racy entertainment after that. The soundtrack features 5 songs...
Gudumba Shankar (Telugu: గుడుంబ శంకర్) is a 2004 Telugu movie directed by Veera Shankar and produced by Nagendra Babu. Pawan Kalyan played the lead role as Meera Jasmine, Ashish Vidyarthi, and Sayaji Shinde played other vital roles. Music was scored by Mani Sharma.
Gudumba Shankar (Pawan Kalyan) is an orphan. He is a smalltime ruffian who makes his living by cheating people. On his way to Hyderabad, he accidentally meets Gowri (Meera Jasmine). Both of them are forced to travel together. A few more incidents make them good friends. Then Shankar realizes that Gowri is a girl who ran away from her house. By then, they start having feelings for each other.
Local rowdy Kumara Swamy (Ashish Vidyarthi) wants to marry Gowri forcibly, which is why she runs away from the home. Kumara Swamy finds out Gowri and takes her back to the house. Kumara Swamy is extremely superstitious and he heavily depends on the astrology of Parabrahma Swamy (Brahmanandam). Shankar blackmails Parabrahma Swamy and...
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Aayutha Ezhuthu (2004) is a Tamil feature film directed by Mani Ratnam. It stars Surya, Madhavan and Siddharth in the lead roles. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman. The title of the movie is the name of a Tamil alphabet letter, ஃ, represented by three dots as the film deals with three different personalities from completely different strata of society. The film calls for the involvement of the youth in the nation's highest decision making processes.
The film was made in Tamil and Hindi (as Yuva) simultaneously.
One fateful incident on Napier Bridge in Chennai changes three men's lives forever. Madhavan plays Inbashekar, a hitman who has no qualms about doing dirty dealings for money. He is assigned a job to shoot youth leader and student activist Michael (Surya Sivakumar), and succeeds on Napier Bridge, while Michael rides by on his motorbike. As Michael falls into the river, Arjun (Siddharth), a young student standing nearby is the sole witness of the...
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Anjaneya (2003) is a Tamil film directed by Maharajan. The film stars Ajith, Meera Jasmine, Raghuvaran, Ramesh Khanna, and Sarala. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Mani Sharma. DCP Paramaguru (Ajith) a nail police officer who fights with the scum of the society. He later masquerades as a thief to infiltrate into the underworld. The bad guys are surprised to find that Paramguru is the DCP, out to get them. So they all gang up against him. In this process a thrilling encounter takes place between the good and the evil. Paramaguru is helped in his fight against injustice by Divya (Meera Jasmine) who falls in love with him.
Swapnakoodu is a Malayalam super hit film released in (2003) directed by Kamal. the film stars Prithviraj, Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya, Meera Jasmine, Bhavana and Cochin Haneefa in lead roles. The movie was a trensetter in malayalam film industry. It's Songs was an instant hit. karuppinazhak was one among the hit songs from this movie. Was released in Tamil as Moondrum Pirai 2006.Kunjoonju, Deepu and Ashtamurthy are studying hotel management at Pondichery. Kunjoonju is a 'Kanjirappally Achayan' who is always after girls. But his 'thrill' for a girl ends the moment he finds that she is interested in him. Abbas, the trio's friend, arranges the top floor of a house for them to stay. The house is owned by Sophy and she stays there with her two daughters Kamala and Padma. All three guys fall for Kamala, but Kunjunju and Deepu join together and push Ashtamurthy out of the race by making him the 'Rakhi Brother' of Kamala. Kamala knows that Kunjunju is a flirt and so she tries to keep away...
Bala is a Tamil film.The film stars Shaam,Meera Jasmine in lead.The film also has Raghuvaran, Thilakan and Karunas.The film was an average hit. The song Theendi Theendi is really a tremendous hit. Bala is the favourite hit-man of gangster Pasupathi (Dev). If Bala is not zooming around in jeeps with a wild looking gang in it, parading down lanes with the same gang faithfully following a step behind him, or knocking down somebody or the other, he's successfully wooing Arthi, the girl he falls for at first sight. Not surprisingly, Arthi is the daughter of Jeyamani, a rival gangster. Ailing don Paranthaman (Thilakan), mentor of the two rivals, seeing his protégés at each other's throats, brings a compromise by suggesting that Arthi be married to Pasupathi's wayward son. Bala naturally becomes a pariah in both the camps, till of course it's alls well that ends well. Shaam has put in an effort in the fight scenes, but probably it's not really his fault if he couldn't make a convincing...
Run (2002) is a Tamil film directed by top director Linguswamy. The film stars R. Madhavan and Meera Jasmine. The film was praised by film critics as the story was an average one but it was told really well by the director, the crew and the cast itself.
Madhavan comes to Chennai to continue his studies. He meets Meera and falls in love with her. Despite her warning him that her brother Atul Kulkarni is a local rowdy, he begins to love her more. Her brother sets his men on Madhavan but he beats them up. And soon Meera too starts loving him. Finally Madhavan elopes with Meera and how he overcomes the brother's opposition forms the story.
The film was re-made in Hindi language by Boney Kapoor with the same name, starring Abhishek Bachchan (Siddharth)and Bhoomika Chawla (Jhanavi) in lead roles, while Jhanavi's brother was played by Mahesh Manjrekar (Ganpat).
The film has won the following awards since its release:
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