Nov 13, 2017 - Sri Durga born on 10th August 1973, known by the screen name Malashri, is an Indian actress in the Kannada film industry. She is better.

1. Tamil Serial Actress Durga Wikipedia

Meri Durga is an Indian television series on Star Plus created by the director turned producer Ravindra Gautam along with producer Pradeep Kumar under their own banner Paperback Films starring Srishti Jain. The show premiered on 26 January 2017 and went off air on 17 March 2018.^[1][2][3][4]

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Plot[edit]

The story traces the journey of a girl (Durga) who aspires to become a runner. It revolves around the most beautiful and sensitive relationship of a father and his daughter. Highlighting the realities of life, Yashpal Choudhary (father) works as a peon in one of the schools in Haryana. His only dream is to fight against all the odds and educate his daughter Durga for a better future. But despite trying hard to study and prove herself, Durga couldn't reach Yashpal's expectations.Yashpal who works as a mere school peon has a very progressive viewpoint when it comes to educating a girl or a boy – unlike his other relatives. Durga, on the other hand, is a very lively and a positive 12-year-old who is enjoying her childhood in and around the corners of Haryana. She loves running behind kites, climbing on the mango tree. Besides enjoying her childhood, Durga tried very hard to fulfill her father's dream. But somehow she just couldn't understand the calculations and hence always found herself confused between alphabets and numbers. Influenced by her coach, Rana sir, Yaspal allows Durga to be an athlete. Durga emerges as the winner in the national race but her competitor, Arti who secures the 2nd position gets drugs mixed in her food. In the blood test, Durga is found to be on drugs and is expelled from running for 5 years. As the consequence, her innocent family faces the villagers' ire and Durga is so shocked that she quits running forever.

Five years later

After 5 years Durga is now grown up and she has the responsibility to take care of her family as well as her dreams too. She meets Sanjay Prince (SP), her old childhood friend. But things between them are not too good. When Sp finds out that Durga has joined the same college as him, he threatens her to leave the college but eventually, they fall in love. Later Durga gets to know that SP's mom, Gayatri Devi, had mixed drugs to her food five years back and tells the media. Gayatri Devi gets angry and influences SP to make him Durga's enemy and SP and Arti start a new play. In the midst of this, SP and Durga marry each other. After being tortured by SP and his family, Durga finds out that Gayatri was a national athlete who was expelled from the academy and helps her to keep it a secret. Eventually, SP gets to know that Durga is innocent and his mom was the behind her pains. The family comes together and Durga begins training for her nationals. Arti's father blackmails Durga that he will destroy her family if she takes part in the national race. He kidnaps her family on the day of the race but SP and Durga rescue the family and Durga wins the race. Durga gets admitted in the academy for being qualified for international games. She succeeds in her attempts.

Cast[edit]

Main Cast[edit]

• Srishti Jain as Durga Choudhary Ahlawat (Yashpal's adopted youngest daughter/ SP's wife)
• Paras Kalnawat as Sanjay Prince Ahlawat/SP (Durga's husband)
• Vicky Ahuja as Yashpal Choudhary (Durga's father)

Recurring cast[edit]

• Kate Sharma / Urfi Javed as Aarti (SP's childhood friend)
• Ankur Nayyar as Rana (Durga's coach)
• Rashmi Shaw /Mrigrash Dubey as Annapurna Yashpal Choudhary (Durga's mother/ Yashpal's wife)
• Rajiv Khanna as Brijpal Choudhary (Durga's uncle/ Yashpal's younger brother)
• Jyotika Kukrety as Sheela Brijpal Choudhary (Durga's aunt/ Brijal's wife)
• Amardeep Jha as Dadi
• Dolly Sohi as Gayatri Devi Ahlawat/Athlete Jassi (SP's mother)
• Rajiv Kumar as Neelkant Ahlawat (SP's father)
• Paras Sharma as Gagan Ahlawat (SP's brother)
• Jiya Chauhan as SP's Anjana Gagan Ahlawat (Gagan's wife)
• Aishwarya Sharma / Sonal Parihar / Swapnil Sengar as Amrita (Durga's older sister/ Yashpal's eldest daughter)
• Adhvik Mahajan as Madhav (Amrita's ex-lover/ Umang's father)
• Advait as Umang (Durga's nephew/Amrita's son)
• Ashna Kishore as Shilpa (Durga's cousin/ Brijpal's daughter)
• Ramansh Bundela Bantu Choudhary (Durga's cousin/ Brijpal's son)
• Raj Shrnagat as Manohar
• Prince Singh as 2/2 Bhagwat
• Raquib Arshad as SRK
• Ananya Agarwal as Young Durga
• Yash Mistry as Young Sanjay Prince
• Soham Jadhav as Young Manohar
• Sanjay Kaushik as Rishi
• Apala Bisht As Laxmi
• Rakhi Vijan as Subhadra
• Nandani Master as Srijita
• Mohsin as Bhagwat
• Mohammad Saud as Bansi
• Satya Tiwari as Sam
• Ritu Bhagwani As Tanvi
• Urmila Sharma As Rohini
• Tariq Khan As Kadam
• Vishal C. Bhardwaj as Purshottam Singhania
• Nia Sharma as Palasha Trivedi(Durga's friend)(October 2017-January 2018)
• Apurva Agnihotri as Coach Bhagat

References[edit]

1. ^'Ravindra Gautam: Meri Durga is a tale of a father's mind and heart – Times of India'.
2. ^Team, Tellychakkar. 'Star Plus' Meri Durga to launch on 26 January'.
3. ^Team, Tellychakkar. 'Vicky Ahuja spends time with real life school peons'.
4. ^'Meri Durga to go off air on March 17 – Times of India'. The Times of India. Retrieved 17 March 2018.

External links[edit]

• Meri Durga Streaming on Hotstar

Malashri (born as Sri Durga on 10 August 1973) is an Indian film actress. She has worked predominantly into Cinema of Karnataka in addition to Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema Malashri garnered praise for her portrayal of a homely Indian girl and character roles. She was popularly called Kanasina Rani ('Dream Girl') in the media.^[1] She was leading actress in 1980s and 1990s. She is also called Lady Super Star of Karnataka.

Malashri began her career as a child artiste and has appeared in 34 films of Tamil and Telugu. She made her debut in a lead role with the Kannada film Nanjundi Kalyana (1989). Her portrayal of a haughty, shrewish woman in the movie won her many accolades heralding her as one of the top actresses in Kannada Cinema. She went to establish herself as a leading actress in Kannada cinema with the films Gajapathi Garvabhanga (1989), Policena Hendthi (1990), Kitturina Huli (1990), Rani Maharani (1990), Hrudaya Haadithu (1991), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, Ramachaari (1991), Belli Kalungura (1992), Solillada Saradara (1993) and Gadibidi Aliya (1995). In the 2000s, Malashri began to work exclusively in action films like Chamundi (2000), Kannadada Kiran Bedi (2009), Shakti (2012), Veera (2013) and Ganga (2015) for which she won her first Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress.^[2]

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Career[edit]

Child artiste[edit]

Malashri began her career in films as a child actor after being roped in by the directors of her mother's films. She appeared in 34 films as a child actor, out of which she played the role of a boy in 26 of them.^[3] In a talk show, Majaa Talkies, she said that as a child, she was a fan of actor Amitabh Bachchan and would dress up like him, appearing as boy, which prompted directors to cast her in their films. Among them include the 1979 films, Imayam and Neela Malargal.^[4]

Lead roles[edit]

Writer and lyricist Chi. Udaya Shankar first introduced Malashri to Rajkumar family who were on the look out for a fresh face. In a lead role, she was introduced first by the Parvathamma Rajkumar, and cast her opposite her son Raghavendra Rajkumar for the film Nanjundi Kalyana (1989), who also rechristened her name as Malashri. She went on to act in two other films from Vajreshwari Combines, namely, Gajapathi Garvabhanga opposite Raghavendra again, and Mruthyunjaya with Shiv Rajkumar.

She took on the famous double role in Rani Maharani (immortalized earlier by Vanisri in Ganga Manga/Rani Vani and Sridevi in Chaalbaaz). With this film, she silenced her critics once and for all with a powerhouse performance. But it was not until her next film Hrudaya Haadithu that she openly won all praises from the masses, elite and critics alike. Her portrayal of a young girl inflicted with heart problem and her simple desires in life won her the Filmfare Best actress award in the year 1991. As she churned out hit after hit. Even director V. Ravichandran, who till then believed only in importing heroines from the film industries of other states, cashed in hugely on her popularity by casting her in Ramachaari (a remake of Tamil Hit Chinna Thambi). This enabled him to come out of the financial crisis he was facing due to the debacle of Shanti Kranti during that time.

However, in the mid-90s, Malashri had a string of less successful films like Prema Khaidi, Snehada Kadalalli, Megha Mandara, Harishina Kumkuma, and Solillada Saradara. She had a few comeback hits in the new millennium with 'angry woman' roles in Chamundi, Durgi and Kannada Kiran Bedi.

Tamil Serial Actress Durga Wikipedia

Personal life[edit]

Malashri was born and brought up in Madras (now Chennai).^[5] She shot to fame with Nanjundi Kalyana in 1989 but her personal life hit an all-time low the same year when her mother died in a road accident. She was in a relationship with actor Sunil, her co-star in many films.^[6] But in 1994 she met with a car accident when her car got hit by a truck. While Malashree suffered multiple injuries, Sunil died within an hour. It was rumoured that they even had plans of getting married.^[7] She is currently married to film producer Ramu and they have a daughter together, Ananya (b. 2001).^[8] Her sister Subhashri was also an actress, who appeared in South Indian films.

Filmography[edit]

Awards[edit]

Karnataka State Film Awards

• 2015 : Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress : Ganga

Filmfare Awards South

• 1991: Filmfare Award for Best Actress: Hrudaya Haadithu^[10]

Other awards

• 2011: NTR Award^[11]

References[edit]

1. ^'The name is star, super star'. The Times of India. 11 November 2008.
2. ^Karnataka State Film Awards, 2015: Full List
3. ^'I played a boy in 26 films: Malashri'. The Times of India. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
4. ^Malashri (17 August 2015). Majaa Takies - 17th October 2015 - ಮಜಾ ಟಾಕೀಸ್ - Full Episode (in Kannada). Colors Kannada. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
5. ^'Combat queen'. The Hindu. 17 April 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
6. ^'Malashree's comeback effort'. Rediff. 5 May 2000. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
7. ^'Kannada Actress Malashree Profile'. karnatakaspider. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
8. ^'IT'S MOTHER MALASHREE'. chitraloka.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2001. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
9. ^'Action queen returns with a new role'. The Indian Express. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
10. ^https://archive.is/20170208061710/https://archive.org/details/39thAnnualFilmfareKannadaBestActorActress
11. ^'Land for Telugu institute: Somanna'. The New Indian Express. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2015.

External links[edit]

• Malashri on IMDb