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.
AR Rahman's music was a big highlight of the film. This 2006 movie was a romantic-comedy with great performances by Siddharth, Genelia D'Souza and Prakash Raj. It was about a son who is upset with his father due to his helicopter style of parenting.
was a huge success overseas. Both the actors won awards for this film. This 2008 movie won three Nandi Awards.
Ram Pothineni played the role of Chandu, a guy who is always ready to help someone. Genelia D'Souza was in the role of Pooja, an NRI who falls for Chandu in odd circumstances. There was a lot of comedy and family drama in this entertaining movie.
Brahmanandam and Nassar were parts of the movie too. This film came out in 2003, the same year as . was a huge blockbuster and gave Genelia D'Souza a great start in the Telugu movie industry.
Sumanth was the leading man of the film. Genelia D'Souza will be seen with Aamir Khan in the upcoming movie, It is going to release in December 2024. The movie deals about Down's Syndrome, and how it affects people in every walk of life.
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