Actress Genelia D'Souza was born on August 6, 1987 in Mumbai. Coming from a Mangalorean Catholic family, she never thought of pursuing a career in movies. But her life changed after she did a commercial of Parker Pen with megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
The actress made her debut in 2003 with in Bollywood. Riteish Deshmukh was her co-star. She soon moved to the South where she became a leading lady with successive blockbusters.
The actress recalled how moving down to South was looked down upon in those days. She said she is happy to see that the boundaries have disappeared in the past few years. Genelia D'Souza was the perfect choice for the role of the bubbly, vivacious girl with her naturally chirpy personality.
She has worked with all top stars like Allu Arjun, Jr NTR, Thalapathy Vijay and more. Here is a list of her five South Indian movies that are fan favourites. This is considered to be one of the best films of Thalapathy Vijay and Genelia D'Souza's career.
Bipasha Basu was also a part of this film by John Mahendran. It ran in theatres for over 200 days. This was a campus love story and a remake of the Telugu movie .
Fans of Thalapathy Vijay feel is one of his best romantic movies. In Hindi, the film is dubbed as , a movie by top Tamil filmmaker S. Shankar was released in 2003.
The film was tagged as 'bold' when it got released but found wide appreciation with masses and critics. In the movie, Siddharth and Genelia D'Souza were paired together. She played the role of Harini.