Anu Hasan

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Anu Haasan
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Anu Hasan in 2012
Born
Anuradha Chandrahasan

(1970-07-15) 15 July 1970 (age 54) [1]
Education BITS Pilani
Occupations
  • Actress
  • entrepreneur
  • presenter
  • writer
  • motivational speaker
Father Chandrahasan
RelativesSee Haasan family

Anu Haasan (born Anuradha Chandrahasan) is an Indian actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed Indira (1995) and has since appeared in many Tamil films, playing minor roles. She hosted the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu on the Tamil channel Vijay for three seasons.

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Early life

Anu did her schooling at St.Joseph's Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School, Trichy and RSK Higher Secondary School and earned a MSc degree in Physics and Management from BITS Pilani (1988–1993). [2] [3]

Career

By 2000, she ventured into television, [4] acting first in the series Anbulla Snehgidhiye, which was adapted from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's award-winning novel Sister of My Heart . [2] She then starred in a number of TV series like Avan Aval Avargal, Ammaavukku Rendula Raagu and Vivahita (Malayalam), following which she turned anchor for the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu (named after herself), aired on STAR Vijay. The show, which she hosted for over four years, soon became very popular and made her ultimately a household name in Tamil Nadu. [3]

In 2014 she joined the Ask How India social movement and made a series of videos pertaining to social issues. [5]

In addition, Anu has worked as a dubbing artiste, lending her voice for many non-Tamil-speaking actresses, including Raveena Tandon, Preity Zinta and Geetu Mohandas. [6]

She writes a monthly column for Just for Women (India) magazine.

Author

Books

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotes
1995 Indira Indira Tamil
2001 Aalavandhan/Abhay Vijay and Nandu's motherTamil/Hindi Guest appearance, Bilingual film
2002 Run Siva's sisterTamil Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
2003 Nala Damayanthi AmmuluTamil
Anjaneya Paramaguru's sisterTamil
2008 Akku AnuTamil
Santhosh Subramaniam TamilGuest appearance
Dhaam Dhoom SarasuTamil
2009 Sarvam Geetha EashwarTamilGuest appearance
Aadhavan AnuTamil
Evaraina Epudaina Venkat's sister-in-law Telugu
2010 Maanja Velu Mrs. BoseTamil
Irandu Mugam Sarveswaran's wifeTamil
Thottupaar Tamil
2011 Ko HerselfTamilCameo appearance
Red Building Where The Sun SetsEnglish
2012 Endukante... Premanta! Revathi Telugu
Dead PointAnwar's motherArabic
Ullam Tamil
2013KunthapuraGowri Iyer Malayalam
2014 1: Nenokkadine KalyaniTelugu
2017 Valla Desam AnuTamil
Is This NowMs. MurrayEnglish
2018 Keni SuganthiTamil
Chi La Sow Arjun's motherTelugu
2019VaakkuMalayalam
2020 Putham Pudhu Kaalai SarasTamil Amazon Prime film;
Segment Coffee, Anyone?
2023 Ustaad GayathriTelugu
Bubblegum RamyaTelugu
2025 Anaganaga Telugu

Television

TitleGenreRoleLanguage
Anbulla SnegithiyaeTV seriesTamil
Boom Boom ShakalakaTV seriesTamil
Ammaavukku Rendula RaaguTV seriesTamil
VivahitaTV series Malayalam
Koffee with Anu Talk showHostTamil
Rekha IPS TV seriesRekhaTamil
Tharkappu Kalai TheerathaTV seriesAppaTamil
Anu Alavum Bayam IllaiReality showHostTamil
En Samayal AraiyilReality showHostTamil
KannadiReality showHostTamil
Golmaal GourammaTV seriesKannada
Hollyoaks Soap opera Kameela English
Cucumber DramaShoona MerchandaniEnglish
My Jihad – Episodes 3 and 4DramaNoorEnglish
Ackley Bridge Soap operaEnglish
EastEnders Soap opera Fatima Inzamam English
Emmerdale Soap operaEnglish
Vaanga PesalamTalk showHostTamil
Bigg Boss 4 Reality showSpecial guestTamil

Dubbing artist

References

  1. "Unforgettable roles of yesteryear actress Anu Haasan". The Times of India. 15 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Sandpaper – The BITSAA Magazine". Sandpaper.bitsaa.org. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Metro Plus Madurai / Profiles : Spreading fragrance everywhere". The Hindu . 16 December 2006. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. "Interview with Anu Hasan : Goergo". Goergo.in. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  5. Video Series for Ask How India
  6. Archived 7 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "SouthWord".