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Rambha
Native name	Vijayalakshmi Yeedi
Born	(1976-06-05) 5 June 1976 (age 42) Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other names	Laksha, Lakshanika, Jaya
Occupation	Actress, Producer
Years active	1991–2011 2017-Present
Spouse(s)	Indrakumar Pathmanathan (m.2010-present)
Children	Laanya (b.2011) Sasha (b.2015) Shivin (b. 2018)
Parent(s)	Venkateshwara Rao Yeedi Usha Rani

Vijayalakshmi (born 5 June 1976) is an Indian film actress best known by her stage name Rambha. Throughout her career, Rambha acted in over 100 Indian films and worked across seven regional languages, while appearing alongside most of India's leading actors.^[1][2]

Early life and background

Rambha was born as Vijayalakshmi in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh on 5 June 1976 into a Telugu-speaking family. She did her schooling at Atkinsons Senior Secondary School, Vijayawada. While she was studying in her 7th standard, she acted as Amman for a song for her school's Annual Day competition.^[3] The event had been attended by director Hariharan who stayed in contact and later introduced her as the female lead in his film, Sargam.^[3] Her first on-screen name was Amrutha, which she later changed as Rambha after the character name in her Telugu debut movie Aa Okkati Adakku.

Career

Rambha gave up her education aged 15 and then started her career with Hariharan's Malayalam film Sargam (1992) opposite Vineeth. The film perform well at the box office, though she was spotted by director E. V. V. Sathyanarayana who then cast her in the Telugu film Aa Okkati Adakku (1992), where she was paired opposite Rajendra Prasad.^[4] The film performed well and prompted several film offers for the actress from several different film industries across India. During 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 as the lead actor's love interest.^[4]

She started her career as a producer with help of her brother in Three Roses (2003), in which Jyothika, Laila and Rambha played the lead characters. However, the film failed at the box office and she fell heavily into debt after the film's release.^[5] She sold her house at Mount Road, Chennai in order to pay the debt, while she was also booked in a cheque-bounce case filed by the financiers of the movie.^[6]

Rambha has acted in several languages and always maintained a successful balance in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Bhojpuri and Bengali. Her last film in Malayalam titled Paayum Puli in 2007 got good reviews and despite being in her mid 30s, she did one of her most glamorous roles for this film. Most of her movies are successful.
In 2010, Rambha shot alongside Prakash Raj for a thriller film titled Vidiyum Varai Kathiru. The film was shot in three languages namely Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam, but the film did not have a theatrical release.

After her marriage she had given up films and has judged a very popular Tamil TV show Maanada Mayilada, and the Telugu dance show Dhee.^[7] After a long gap she came back from Toronto, she appeared as a judge of Zee Telugu dance show ABCD-Anybody Can Dance and judged Kings of Comedy Juniors on Vijay TV.

She is a brand ambassador for Kolors health care, Chennai^[8] and also for her husband's firm based in Toronto.

Personal life

Rambha is married to Indrakumar Pathmanathan, chairman and chief executive officer of Magickwoods, a kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities manufacturing firm based in Toronto, Indyca Solutions (India) Private Limited and Indyca Exim Private Limited based in Kancheepuram.^[9] The Mehendi ceremony took place on April 7, 2010 at her residence in Saligramam, Chennai. She got married on 8 April 2010, at Karnataka Kalyana Mandapam in Tirumala and her wedding reception was on 11 April 2010 at Rani Meyyaiamma Hall, Chennai.^[10] The newly married couple went for honeymoon to Fiji and New Zealand.^[11][12] After marriage she got settled at North York, Toronto. She gave birth to a daughter, Laanya on 13 January 2011, and on 27 March 2015 she delivered another baby girl, Sasha.^[13][14] She gave birth to both of her daughters at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.^[15][13]

During July 2014, Rambha's sister-in-law booked a dowry harassment case against Rambha and her family for harassing her asking additional dowry.^[16] During May 2016, she came back to India with her daughters. She applied for a habeas corpus demanding 2.5 lakh Rupees money from her husband for maintenance of her daughters.^[17][18] Nearly a year after her return from Canada, with a hearing from Madras High Court, the couple decided to compromise and live together.^[19] After Rambha returned to India, she was summoned to appear before the court regarding the dowry harassment case.^[20] The actress delivered a baby boy on September 23rd 2018 in Toronto , Canada.

Filmography

As actress

In order of languages in which she acted the most to least number

Telugu

Tamil

Hindi

Malayalam

Kannada

Bhojpuri films

Bengali films

Television

References

External links

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  Rambha on IMDb