Dheepa Ramanujam

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Dheepa Ramanujam
Born
Dheepa

NationalityIndian
Occupations
  • Actress
  • Playwright
  • Director
Years active1997-2003
2015-present
SpouseRamanujam

Dheepa Ramanujam is an Indian entrepreneur and actress who appears in Tamil films. [1] [2]

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Career

Dheepa Ramanujam forayed into acting with K. Balachander's television serial Premi, while made her acting debut with a small role in the Rajinikanth-starrer Arunachalam (1997). [2] She worked as an assistant director to Arun Vaidyanathan and Abhishek. [3] She is popularly known for directing Chillu, a science fiction stage play produced by Sri Thenandal Films in collaboration with Shraddha and Krea, a US-based theatre group. [4] She's also well known for her role as Bhuvaneshwari in the film Pichaikkaran (2016) directed by Sasi. [5]

Since 2020, Dheepa has also become an entrepreneur and started her own line of denim jeans for Indian women under the brand name of Lotusline. [6]

Filmography

YearFilmRole

Notes

1997 Arunachalam Debut
2003 Boys
2015 Uttama Villain Queen
Pasanga 2 School's principal
2016 Rajini Murugan Murugan's mother
Pichaikkaran Bhuvaneshwari
Idhu Namma Aalu Mylaa's mother
2017 Spyder Shiva's motherTamil - Telugu bilingual film
Vimaanam Venkidi's motherMalayalam film
2018 Abhiyum Anuvum/Abhiyude Kadha Anuvinteyum Abhi's motherTamil-Malayalam bilingual film
2019 Sivappu Manjal Pachai Rajasekhar's mother
Adithya Varma Adithya Varma's mother

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