Rambha

Yeedi Vijayalakshmi (born 5 June 1976), known professionally as Rambha, is an Indian former actress. She was one of the prominent actresses in Indian cinema in the 1990s and early 2000s. In an acting career spanning almost two decades, Rambha had appeared in more than 100 films across eight languages, predominantly in Telugu and Tamil, in addition to Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada, along with a few Bengali, Bhojpuri and English films. .

Early life and background Rambha was born as Yeedi Vijayalakshmi in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh on 5 June 1976 into a Telugu family. She did her schooling at Atkinsons Senior Secondary School, Vijayawada. While she was studying in her seventh standard, she acted as Ammavaru (Mother Goddess) for her school's annual day competition. The event was attended by director Hariharan who stayed in contact and later introduced her as the female lead in Malayalam film, Sargam. The film performed well and led to several film offers for the actress from several different film industries across India. At the height of her career in the late 1990s, Rambha deliberately continued to pick glamorous roles to garner film offers. In successful films such as Hitler (1997) starring Chiranjeevi, Rambha appeared in roles which were inconsequential to the plot and purely depicted her as the lead actor's love interest.

After her marriage she gave up films as she felt her popularity in films had faded away as she noticed 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.

Personal life Rambha married Indrakumar Pathmanathan, a Canada-based Sri Lankan Tamil businessman, on 8 April 2010 at Karnataka Kalyana Mandapam in Tirumala. They settled in Toronto. They have two daughters and a son.

Filmography In the order of languages in which she appeared the most to the least.

Telugu

Tamil

Hindi Year Film Role Notes 1995 Jallaad Koyal Hindi Debut film1996 Jurmana Priya Kumar SaxenaDaanveer Chitra Jung Madhu 1997 Qahar Radha Judwaa Rupa Sajna 1998 Gharwali Baharwali Manisha Verma Bandhan Jyoti 1999 Main Tere Pyaar Mein Pagal Sonali 2000 Krodh Pooja Varma Beti No.1 Priya Bhatnagar 2001 Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta Tara 2002 Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani Nita Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai Cameo appearance 2004 Dukaan: Pila House Kasthuribai

Kannada

Year Film Role Notes1993 Server Somanna Sudha Kannada Debut film Kempaiah IPS Chempa 1999 O Premave Prema 2000 Panchali 2001 Baava Baamaida Geetha 2004 Sahukara Ranganayaki 2005 Pandu Ranga Vittala Rambha 2006 Gandugali Kumara Rama 2007 Anatharu Herself Cameo

Malayalam Year Film Role Notes1992 Sargam Thangamani Malayalam Debut film Champakulam Thachan Devi 1998 Sidhartha Hema 2003 Chronic Bachelor Bhama 2004 Mayilattam Mythili 2005 Kochi Rajavu Meenakshi 2007 Payum Puli Malli 2008 Kabadi Kabadi Pooja/SnehaDouble role 2011 The Filmstaar Rambha

Other language films Year Film Role Language Notes2005 Dada Meera Bengali Bengali Debut film Chita Rupa 2006 Refugee Julie 2007 Ram Balram Mausammi Bhojpuri Bhojpuri Debut film Rasik Balma Nandita Banke Bihari M.L.A. Lawyer Manya 2009 Quick Gun Murugun Mango Dolly English

Television