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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Indian English Шаблон:Infobox person Abhirami (Шаблон:Audio) (née Divya Gopikumar; July 1983[1]) is an Indian actress, television host and reality show judge. She has acted predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam films and few credits in Telugu and Kannada films.

Abhirami went on to established herself as an leading actress in the 2000s across the Malayalam and Tamil language industries after appearing in films such as Sradha (2000), Middle Class Madhavan (2001), Charlie Chaplin (2002), Raktha Kanneeru (2003) and Virumaandi (2004). After a 10 year hiatus, she returned back to the film industry in 2014 and acted in multiple films as a supporting actress until 2021 where she got a role as one of lead actress in the film Maara after 17 years. She also became a reality show judge through the show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs (season 3).[2]

Early life and education

She was born as Divya Gopikumar[1] in July 1983, to Gopikumar and Pushpa[1][3] in Kerala.She attended Christ Nagar English High School and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, in Trivandrum and did predegree training from Mar Ivanios College, before graduating in programs for psychology and communications from the College of Wooster in Ohio.[4]

Her family migrated to the United States in 2004 when she got a job there. Her parents are yoga instructors in Ohio.[5]

Career

Abhirami made her debut in director Adoor Gopalakrishnan's film Kathapurushan.[6] While in college, Abhirami worked as a TV anchor for the program Top Ten which aired on the Asianet channel,[3] which according to Abhirami was "quite popular" and got her a film offer.[6] She also appeared in the 100-episode Malayalam serial Akshaya Pathram, directed by Sreekumaran Thampi.[6] She changed her screen name to Abhirami, the character name of the heroine of the film Gunaa, being "obsessed with the role and the name".[7]

She had a small role in the Malayalam film Pathram in 1999 and in the series Mercara directed by Jude Attipetty. Later she acted in the films Millennium Stars, Njangal Santhushtaranu, and Sradha before shifting to Tamil cinema. Her first Tamil film was Vaanavil (2001) opposite Arjun, which was a "big hit"[3] and was followed by Middle Class Madhavan and Samudhiram. A notable film in her career was Virumaandi, in which she appeared as a Tamil village girl from Madurai opposite Kamal Haasan.[1] Besides Tamil and Malayalam, she has appeared in Telugu and Kannada films and was a notable Tollywood actress.[8] In 2003, she appeared opposite Upendra in the film Raktha Kanneeru[9] and opposite Shiva Rajkumar in Sri Ram. In 2004, she retired from the film industry and settled in the United States for her studies. She went on to work as the marketing director of an MNC there.[10]

In 2013, Abhirami was the voice of Pooja Kumar in both parts of Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam[11] and she went on to host Rishimoolam, a talk show on the Tamil television channel Puthuyugam.[4][12] The following year, she returned to Malayalam films with Apothecary,Шаблон:Citation needed in which she played the role of a gynaecologist.[13] She also appeared in Ithu Thaanda Police playing the role of Sub-Inspector Arundhati Varma.

She has also anchored the reality show Made For Each Other on Mazhavil Manorama.

Personal life

Abhirami is married to Rahul Pavanan, grandson of writer Pavanan.[4][10][14] They adopted a child.[15]

Filmography

As actress

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List of films and roles
Year Title Role Language Notes Шаблон:Tooltip
1995 Kathapurushan Child Artist Malayalam
1999 Pathram Shilpa Mary Cherian
Njangal Santhushtaranu Geethu Sanjeevan
2000 Sradha Swapna
Millennium Stars Radha
Melevaryathe Malakhakkuttikal Devika Variyar (Devu)
2001 Megasandesam Kavitha
Vaanavil Priya Tamil
Middle Class Madhavan Abhirami
Dosth Anamika
Samudhiram Lakshmi
Charlie Chaplin Mythili Ramakrishnan
2002 Thank You Subba Rao Susi Telugu
Karmegham Maheswari Tamil
Samasthanam Aisha
2003 Laali Haadu Sangeetha Kannada
Raktha Kanneeru Chandra
Charminar Keerthi Telugu
Sri Ram Vasundhara Kannada
2004 Cheppave Chirugali Radha Telugu
Virumaandi Annalachmi Tamil
2014 Apothecary Dr. Nalini Nambiar Malayalam [16]
2015 36 Vayadhinile Susan Tamil Special appearance [17]
2016 Ithu Thaanda Police Arundhati Varma Malayalam
Ore Mukham Prof.Latha
2017 Chowka Indira Sharma Kannada
2018 Amar Akbar Anthony Amar's mother Telugu Special appearance
Ottakoru Kaamukan Meera Malayalam
2019 Dasharatha Krutika Kannada
Aniyan Kunjum Thannalayathu Bincy Malayalam
2020 Marjara Oru Kallu Vacha Nuna Chithira
2021 Maara Selvi Tamil Amazon Prime film
Sulthan Annalakshmi Cameo Appearance
Kotigobba 3 IAS Durga Kannada
2022 Nitham Oru Vaanam Krishnaveni Tamil
2023 Baba Black Sheep Eshwari
Are You Ok Baby? Vidhya [18]
Garudan Sreedevi Malayalam [19]
2024 Шаблон:Pending film Шаблон:Tba Tamil Announced [20]

As a dubbing artist

Television

References

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