Sunday, November 7, 2010



Prema is an actress in the Kannada film industry. She has starred opposite Shivrajkumar, Mohanlal, Vishnuvardhan, Ravichandran, Upendra, Saikumar, Carrot Top, and Ramesh Aravind
Prema stepped into Kannada filmdom with the movie "Savyasachi" starring against Shivarajkumar in 1995.
Later from the block buster Om Prema gained a comfortable position in 1996 and she had been rated high in her capacity to emote any kind of role that's given to her.
She won a State Award Winner for the Category 'Best Actress' in 1996 for the movie Om. She has also bagged Filmfare ('Best Actress') award for the movie 'Kanasugara' in 2001. Other awards include Screen Videocon, Udaya TV, Devikarani, Chitrapremigala Sangha and Cinema Express award.
Prema, on the lines of some well-known actresses of the yesteryear, has the credit of having stayed away from controversies and affairs and enjoys a high reputation among movie-goers, esp, womenfolk.
Prema has also gone on to act in other languages. In 1996, famous Tamil Director Suresh Krishna casted her in his Malayalam movie, The Prince , opposite Superstar Mohanlal. Today she is has acted in five languages. Her Telugu language film, Devi made a collection of Rs. 18 crores and its dubbed version was released in Hindi language.
Currently, she has done an important role in Sundarakanda, a Bapu movie with Charmee Kaur as the main female lead.
She tied the knot with her boyfriend Jeevan Appachu who is also a Coorgi (Kodava), on Thursday, July 6, 2006.