Shamlee

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Shamlee
Born
Shamlee

(1987-07-10) 10 July 1987 (age 36) [1]
Alma mater Women's Christian College, Chennai
Occupation Actress
Years active1989—2000
(child artist),
2009, 2016-2018 (Actress)
Parent(s)Babu,
Alice
Relatives
AwardsKerela State Film Award for Best Child Actress National Film Award for Best Child Actress

Shamlee, also known as Baby Shamili/Shamlee, (born 10 July 1987), is an Indian former actress who has worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam films. Her roles include the mentally challenged child Anjali in the 1990 film Anjali , for which she won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist, and a child trapped inside a bore-well in the film Malootty , which won her a Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. She has also won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Child Actor for her performance in her Kannada debut Mathe Haditu Kogile.

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Early life

Shamlee is from a family of actors, being the younger sister to actor Richard Rishi and actress Shalini. She was born to Babu and Alice. Her father migrated to Madras with an ambition of becoming an actor and the family settled there. Later he fulfilled his ambition through his children. [2]

Career

Shamlee started acting at the age of two in Tamil Cinema with the Vijaykanth starrer Rajanadai . In 1990, she acted in Bharathan's Malootty , a film based on Jessica McClure. Her performance won her critical appreciation and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. [3] Her breakthrough came with Mani Ratnam's Anjali , in which she portrayed a mentally challenged child, which earned her widespread critical acclaim across South India and the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. [4] [5] At that time, Shamlee was regarded as one of the youngest income tax assessees ever. [6] After Anjali, Shamlee became inarguably the most sought out child artist in South Indian cinema and, thus in subsequent years, acted in many roles in all four South Indian languages. [7]

In 2009, she played her first female lead role in Anand Ranga's directorial debut Oye! (2009) alongside Siddarth with her performance receiving a mixed response. [8] [9] Between 2010 and 2015, Shamili studied and worked in Singapore and later returned to Chennai to work on the production of Veera Shivaji alongside Vikram Prabhu in 2016, which was panned by critics. Her performance also received negative reviews with indiaglitz claiming “Shamlee gets a forgettable debut as a heroine in Tamil. Her lip sync is poor and the scenes involving her do no help her either”. [10] and sify also stating she is “as stiff as a wax statue with barely any emotion”. [11] Shamili also acted in the Malayalam film Valleem Thetti Pulleem Thetti the same year, which was also panned and received negative reviews. [12]

Filmography

As child artist

YearMovieRoleLanguageNotes
1989 Rajanadai Shamu Tamil
1990 Magadu BabyTeluguTamil dubbed as Meesaikaran
Anjali AnjaliTamilWon - National Film Award for Best Child Artist
Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Child Artist
Malootty MaloottyMalayalamWon - Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist
Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari Bujji Telugu
Mathe Haditu Kogile Pallavi Kannada Won - Karnataka State Film Award for Best Child Artist
Durga Durga,MallikaTamil
1991Thai PoosamVelayutham
Sendhoora Devi Sindhu,
Nandu
Pookkalam Varavayi Geethu Malayalam
Anbu Sangili GeethuTamil
Keechu RaalluJyotiTelugu
BhairaviKannada
Kilukkampetti ChikkumolMalayalam
ShwetaagniKannada
Vaasalile Oru Vennila AmmuTamil
1992 Police Lockup Kannada
Killer SnehaTelugu
Sivasankari Tamil
Devar Veettu PonnuSangari,
Savithri
Naga BalaTelugu
Nani
Parvathalu PanakaluMahalakshmi
Sukravaram Mahalakshmi
1993 Joker Apple
KadambariKannada
Chinna Kannamma SaranyaTamil
SambhaviKannada
Nippu Ravva Engineer's daughterTeluguHindi dubbed in Mawali Raj
Thanga Pappa AbhiramiTamil
DakshayiniKannada
Hoovu Hannu Triveni
SivarathiriTamil
1994Makkala SakshiKannada
Chinna Nee Naguthiru
Bhuvaneshwari
Anga Rakshakudu Telugu
Doragariki Donga Pellam Baby Vani
1995 Nirnayam ParukkuttyMalayalam
Karulina Kudi Kannada
1996 Sabse Bada Mawali Hindi (Hindi debut and only film to date)
Lalanam Ammu Malayalam
1998 Harikrishnans Ammalu
Jagadeeshwari JagadeeshwariKannada
Thaayin Manikodi RosieTamil
2000 Kandukondain Kandukondain Kamala

As lead actress

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotesRef.
2009 Oye! Sandhya Jagarlamudi Telugu [13]
2016 Valleem Thetti Pulleem Thetti Sreedevi Malayalam [14]
Veera Sivaji Anjali Tamil [15]
2018 Ammammagarillu SitaTelugu [16]

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Awards
National Film Award
Preceded by
Mrin Moyee Chandrakar
for Kalat Nakalat
Best Child Artist
for Anjali
(shared with Tarun and Shruthi)

1990
Succeeded by
Santhosh Reddy
for Bhadram Koduko