
Shruti
Acting
Biography
Girija (born 18 September 1975), known by her screen name Shruti, is an Indian actress, television personality and politician. As an actress, she is known for her work in Kannada cinema and has appeared in over 100 films. She is currently serving as chief secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party's women's wing in its Karnataka cadre. In addition to Kannada, Shruti has appeared in a handful Tamil and Malayalam films. She was among the leading actresses in Kannada cinema during the 1990s and has won three Karnataka State Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards South in her career spanning over 25 years. She is known for performance in films such as Gauri Ganesha (1991), Aagatha (1995), Kalki (1996), Gowdru (2004), Akka Thangi (2008) and Puttakkana Highway (2011). She is sister of actor Sharan. In 2016, she won the third season of the reality television show Bigg Boss Kannada. Shruti joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2008. She was made the chairperson of the Karnataka Women and Child Development Corporation before being removed in 2009. In 2013, she joined the Karnataka Janata Paksha which eventually merged in 2014 with the BJP.
Known For

Prominent celebrities in various fields, primarily from Karnataka, are invited to tell the story of their lives. Over steaming cups of coffee, Ramesh Aravind takes the audience on an inside journey with the celebrities through all walks of their lives.
Weekend With Ramesh

The Kannada version of the reality show where a number of contestants (known as "housemates") live in a purpose-built house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction, and the housemates who receive the most nominations faces a public vote out.
Bigg Boss

Chellammaa (Geetha), a singer, is wedded to a chauvinistic, sadistic industrialist named Prakash (Prakash Raj). She is unable to beget a child and hence is the target of hurting words from Prakash and his mother. When he prohibits her from singing, it is the last straw for her and they divorce. He marries Karpagam (Renuka), a doormat wife, while Chellammaa stays single, with a cook Kokila (newsreader Fathima Babu in her first movie appearance) around to help her. Kalki (Shruti) works in an ad agency and is relentlessly pursued by co-worker and model Paranjothi (Rahman) but she not only rejects him but debunks love and sentiments. Chellammaa becomes friends with Kalki after a few encounters and Kalki moves in as a paying guest. But she strikes up a friendship with Prakash and as the result of an affair with him, she ends up bearing his child. What happens of this leads up to the climax.
Kalki

Apputtan, a rich man, gives Ambili, a young woman, the financial help she needs to become a doctor. However, he soon finds himself falling in love with her.
Kottaram Veettile Apputtan

Bharat alias Bachchan is a kind-hearted real estate businessman, who is the MD of the Bharat Property Solutions. He is deeply in love with Anjali (Bhavana), who is doing MS in Bellary and wants to deliver honest service to the needy people. But her wish becomes an obstacle for a mining mafia don.
Bachchan

Rathnakara is an insurance agent living a mundane life with his unapologetically loud mother Saroja. An uncomfortable truth about his life leads him to go on a trail to find his world. What does he learn eventually?
Rathnan Prapancha

A woman finds out that her husband is having an affair with an old college friend of hers. Soon, they hatch a plan to teach him a lesson.
Pellaniki Premalekha Priyuraliki Subhalekha

Raghava is a fun-loving youngster who enjoys playing cricket with his friends. But at night he is afraid of ghosts and is always confined to his home under the care of his mother (Umashri). His brother (Achyuth Rao), sister-in-law (Shruthi) and their children live together in the same house. When Raghava and his friends go in search of another ground to play cricket, they find an abandoned field, which, it turns out, is haunted. At home, his mother and sister-in-law witness some strange happenings. With the help of a temple priest, they confirm the presence of a ghostly spirit haunting their home. Raghava begins to act funny and shows effeminate behaviour which is when the presence of the ghost is identified. The film goes on to unravel the mystery of the ghostly Kalpana and her relationship with Raghava.
Kalpana

Vithala gets married to two women, who are both unaware of each other's existence. He strives hard to keep them happy but encounters various obstacles in his endeavour.
Pandu Ranga Vittala

Karpoorada Gombe is a 2000 Kannada film directed by S Mahender and produced by Chandrashekhar. The film stars Ramesh Aravind, Shruti, Lokesh and Doddanna in lead roles. Music was composed by Hamsalekha.
Karpoorada Gombe

When a group of lost villagers chance upon a Guruji at a shrine, he begins to narrate the story of two unlikely heroes, Anji and Bhajrangi, who lived across two different timelines.
Bhajarangi 2

Cochin Hanifa plays the title role of CI Mahadevan, who goes to a village where a bomb blast in a school bus has created terror in the hearts of the villagers. He is being assisted by a bunch of policemen working in the local police station. These policemen are more concerned about their personal matters than the problems faced by the public. How Mahadevan unravels the mystery behind the blast with the help of these policemen is the crux of the story.
C.I. Mahadevan 5 Adi 4 Inch

Shivakumar works as a peon in an office and strives to ensure that his son Kumar fulfils his dreams. When the pressure gets to Kumar, he starts to rebel against his father.
College Kumar

Anand reluctantly agrees to marry Lakshmi. Just when the two are settling into happy matrimony, trouble erupts owing to differences between their parents.
Alimayya

Director Srinivas Raju’s world of Dandupalya, as seen in the first two films of the series, will finally come to an end. The third film in the series will mark the end of the franchise, which has received a great deal of critical acclaim in both Kannada and Telugu.
Dandupalya 3

Geetha, a pregnant widow, goes to a government office as part of her long and continuous ordeal to get money from a government scheme that is hers. What seems to be a normal day of bureaucracy and corruption goes awry when she lands up with a bomb strapped to her stomach.
ACT-1978

Vasudev, a miser, tries to control his pregnant wife's spending habits. Furious, she leaves him. Years later, unknowingly she rents a house opposite his.
Edurmaneli Ganda Pakkadmaneli Hendthi

Set against the rustic backdrop of the 1970s, unfolds the tale of farmers confronting challenges that intricately shape the course of their lives.
Kaatera

When Urmila, an actress, is murdered in cold blood, her lookalike, Usha, and Raju, an assistant director, fall in love as they set out to find the culprit.
Ksheera Sagara

A young man lands a job by making his employer believe that he is a man of traditional values. However, when suspected of lying, he makes up a false story about having an ill-mannered twin.