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| [[2006 in film|2006]] || ''Mercury Pookal'' || Anbu Chelvi || [[Srikanth (actor)|Srikanth]], [[Samiksha]] || S.S.Stanley
| [[2006 in film|2006]] || ''Mercury Pookal'' || Anbu Chelvi || [[Srikanth (actor)|Srikanth]], [[Samiksha]] || S.S.Stanley || After a lukewarm opening, this movie picked up and became a success.
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| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Sandai Kozhi'' || Hema || Vishal || Linguswamy
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Sandai Kozhi'' || Hema || Vishal || Linguswamy || Meera's role as a livewire, fun-loving girl took her into the hearts of the Tamil audience once again.
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| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Kasthoorimaan'' || Uma || [[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]] || [[Lohithadas]]
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Kasthoorimaan'' || Uma || [[Prasanna (actor)|Prasanna]] || [[Lohithadas]] || Meera's comeback movie in [[Kollywood|Tamil]] after a gap of several months earned her rave reviews.
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| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''[[Aayitha Ezhuthu]]'' || Sasi || [[Madhavan]], [[Surya(actor)|Surya]], [[Trisha Krishnan|Trisha]], [[Siddharth]] || [[Mani Ratnam]]
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''[[Aayitha Ezhuthu]]'' || Sasi || [[Madhavan]], [[Surya(actor)|Surya]], [[Trisha Krishnan|Trisha]], [[Siddharth]] || [[Mani Ratnam]] || She outshone the other big names in the movie, earning appreciation for speaking her lines at a time when other actresses use dubbing artistes.
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| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Joot'' || Meera || [[Srikanth (actor)|Srikanth]] || Azhagam Perumal
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Joot'' || Meera || [[Srikanth (actor)|Srikanth]] || Azhagam Perumal || The movie took a good opening but ended up with a lukewarm response.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Anjaneya'' || Divya || [[Ajith Kumar]] || Maharajan
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Anjaneya'' || Divya || [[Ajith Kumar]] || Maharajan || The movie that reminded Meera not to do such peripheral roles any more.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Puthiya Geethai'' || Sushi || [[Joseph Vijay|Vijay]], [[Amisha Patel]] || Jagan
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Puthiya Geethai'' || Sushi || [[Joseph Vijay|Vijay]], [[Amisha Patel]] || Jagan || One of the few forgettable movies of her career.
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| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''Bala'' || Aarthi || [[Shaam]] || Deepak
| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''Bala'' || Aarthi || [[Shaam]] || Deepak || The [[Kollywood|Tamil]] audience reportedly cheered loudly when her name was shown and also when she made her first appearance in this movie.
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| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''[[Run (film)|Run]]'' || Priya || [[Madhavan]], [[Atul Kulkarni]] || Linguswamy
| [[2002 in film|2002]] || ''[[Run (film)|Run]]'' || Priya || [[Madhavan]], [[Atul Kulkarni]] || Linguswamy || The movie that launched her career in a big way.
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| [[2006 in film|2006]] || ''Rasathantram'' || Kanmani || [[Mohanlal]] || [[Sathyan Anthikkad]]
| [[2006 in film|2006]] || ''Rasathantram'' || Kanmani || [[Mohanlal]] || [[Sathyan Anthikkad]] || She played a boy for several scenes in this movie.
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| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Achuvinte Amma'' || Ashwathy || Urvashi || [[Sathyan Anthikkad]]
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Achuvinte Amma'' || Ashwathy || Urvashi || [[Sathyan Anthikkad]] || This movie had a lengthy run of 200 days.
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| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Perumazhakkalam'' || Raziya || [[Kavya Madhavan]] || [[Kamal]]
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Perumazhakkalam'' || Raziya || [[Kavya Madhavan]] || [[Kamal]] || This movie won a National Award in [[2005]] for Second Best Film on Social Issues.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Chakram'' || Indrani || [[Prithviraj]] || [[Lohithadas]]
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Chakram'' || Indrani || [[Prithviraj]] || [[Lohithadas]] || This movie did not do much for Meera's career.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam'' || Shahina || Irshad || T.V.Chandran
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam'' || Shahina || Irshad || T.V.Chandran || Meera's National Award winning movie.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Swapnakoodu'' || Kamala || Kunchacko Boban, [[Prithviraj]], [[Bhavana]] || [[Kamal]]
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Swapnakoodu'' || Kamala || Kunchacko Boban, [[Prithviraj]], [[Bhavana]] || [[Kamal]] || She stood out from the crowd despite having another heroine and three heroes for company.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Kasthoorimaan'' || Priyamvada || Kunchacko Boban || [[Lohithadas]]
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Kasthoorimaan'' || Priyamvada || Kunchacko Boban || [[Lohithadas]] || Meera won a state award for this movie. It was later remade in Tamil.
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| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Gramaphone'' || Jennifer || [[Dileep]], [[Navya Nair]] || [[Kamal]]
| [[2003 in film|2003]] || ''Gramaphone'' || Jennifer || [[Dileep]], [[Navya Nair]] || [[Kamal]] || One of the early performances that gained her a reputation as a good actress.
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| [[2001 in film|2001]] || ''Soothradharan'' || Shivani || [[Dileep]] || [[Lohithadas]]
| [[2001 in film|2001]] || ''Soothradharan'' || Shivani || [[Dileep]] || [[Lohithadas]] || Although the movie was not a success, people took note of Meera's potential.
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| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Bhadra'' || Anu || Ravi Teja, Prakash Raj || Boyapati Srinu
| [[2005 in film|2005]] || ''Bhadra'' || Anu || Ravi Teja, Prakash Raj || Boyapati Srinu || It was talked about as a rehash of [[Okkadu]], but had enough freshness to become a hit.
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| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Gudumba Shankar'' || Gowri || [[Pawan Kalyan]] || Veera Shankar
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Gudumba Shankar'' || Gowri || [[Pawan Kalyan]] || Veera Shankar || Meera insisted on dubbing in her own voice in this movie, and surprised the unit by doing an excellent job.
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| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Ammayi Bagundi'' || Janani/Satya || Shivaji || Balashekaran
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Ammayi Bagundi'' || Janani/Satya || Shivaji || Balashekaran || It's not every day a debut actress gets a double role, but Meera managed this rare feat in this movie.
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| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Maurya'' || Alamelu || Puneeth Rajkumar || Narayan
| [[2004 in film|2004]] || ''Maurya'' || Alamelu || Puneeth Rajkumar || Narayan || This movie gave her the rare distinction of giving hits in all four [[South India|South Indian]] languages.
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Meera Jasmine

Meera Jasmine (born 15 February 1984) is a National Award winning Indian actress. Several of her movies in various South Indian languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada) were highly successful and critically aclaimed. She won India's coveted National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 for Paadhom Onnu: Oru Vilaapam.

Biography

Meera Jasmine was born Jasmine Mary Joseph to Joseph Philip and Aleyamma in Kuttappuzha, Tiruvalla, Kerala, India . She completed her schooling in Mar Thoma Residential School in Tiruvalla. She currently lives in Panampilly Nagar in Kochi (formerly Cochin).

A chance meeting with Malayalam screenwriter Lohithadas gave way to her debut in Malayalam Cinema through the movie Soothradharan. She assumed the screen name "Meera" Jasmine, reportedly out of her fascination for Meera, a mystical devotee of Lord Krishna.

The phenomenal success of her first Tamil movie, Run, made her a major star. She followed it up with Tamil movies with big stars and reputed directors, including Mani Ratnam's Ayutha Ezhuthu.

In the meantime, she continued doing meaty roles in Malayalam movies. Her crowning glory came with the National Award for Best Actress in 2004.

Meera Jasmine entered Telugu cinema with Ammayi Bagundi and Gudumba Shankar, with the former becoming a success as well as earning her rave reviews. She cemented her place in Telugu with another hit, Bhadra. She also made a Kannada appearance in the 2004 hit Mourya, co-starring with young superstar Puneeth Rajkumar.

Her National Award and her burgeoning reputation as a performing actress meant she decided to choose only good roles. She re-entered Tamil cinema with Kasthoorimaan and Sandaikozhi. After the roaring success of Sandaikozhi, she became a rage in Tamil cinema once again, with the song, "Dhavani Potta Deepavali", eulogising her, at the top of every chart.

Her recent Malayalam release, Rasatantram, has earned her rave reviews and has turned into a superhit. Her latest Tamil release Mercury Pookal is also a success, and she has landed prestigious offers with Balakrishna in Telugu and Kamal Hassan's magnum opus Dasavatharam.

Trivia

  • Meera Jasmine is a self-confessed fan of Tamil cinema's musical genius Ilayaraaja.
  • Despite being a Christian, she visits temples religiously.
  • Her personal life is very often the target of the Kerala's yellow press, being romantically linked to directors and actors, at one point even being "married off" by the press to co-star Prithviraj.
  • She has received appreciation for dubbing in her own voice even in languages she does not fully know.

Noted Roles

  • A servant girl who disguises herself as a boy (in Malayalam movie Rasatantram)
  • A teenager forced to marry an older man (in Malayalam movie Paadam Onnu : Oru Vilapam)
  • Woman struggling to save husband who is on death row in a foreign country (in Malayalam movie Perumazhakalam)
  • A Jew who loves a native Indian but faces family pressure to marry a Jew (in Malayalam movie Gramaphone)
  • Self-sacrificing girl who single-handedly makes her lover become a success in life (in Malayalam and Tamil movie Kasthoorimaan)
  • Daughter of a single mother (Malayalam movie Achuvinte Amma)
  • Wife of a paralysed dancer (in upcoming Malayalam movie Rathri Mazha)
  • Passionate lover of a rowdy (in Tamil movie Ayutha Ezhuthu)
  • Wife who is rejected and goaded by husband but slowly wins him over (in Tamil movie Mercury Pookal)
  • Two girls, a modern outgoing girl and a traditional girl (in Telugu movie Ammayi Bagundi)

Upcoming movies

Tamil Films

Year Film Co-Stars Director
2006 Dasavatharam Kamal Hassan,Trisha, Asin K.S.Ravikumar
2006 Thirumagan S.J. Suryah, Samiksha Ratnakumar

Malayalam Films

Year Film Co-Stars Director
2006 Rathri Mazha Vineeth Lenin Rajendran
2006 Akasha Gopuram Mohanlal K.P.Kumaran
2006 Untitled Dileep Shaji Kailash
2006 Untitled Dileep Sathyan Anthikkad
2006 Untitled Dileep Lohithadas

Telugu Films

Year Film Co-Stars Director
2006 Untitled Balakrishna, Sneha P.Vasu
2006 Untitled Gopichand Uday Shankar

Awards

  • National Film Award for Best Actress in 2004 for the film Paadhom Onnu: Oru Vilaapam (roughly translates into 'Lesson One: A Lament') in which she portrayed a Muslim girl who is a victim of child marriage.
  • Kerala State Award for the Best Actress in 2004 for the films Kasthooriman ('Musk Deer') and Paadhom Onnu: Oru Vilaapam
  • Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 2004 for Paadhom Onnu: Oru Vilaapam.
  • Lux-Asianet awards for Best Actress, continously for (2003-04-05)

Filmography

Tamil Films

Year Film as Co-Stars Director Other Details
2006 Mercury Pookal Anbu Chelvi Srikanth, Samiksha S.S.Stanley After a lukewarm opening, this movie picked up and became a success.
2005 Sandai Kozhi Hema Vishal Linguswamy Meera's role as a livewire, fun-loving girl took her into the hearts of the Tamil audience once again.
2005 Kasthoorimaan Uma Prasanna Lohithadas Meera's comeback movie in Tamil after a gap of several months earned her rave reviews.
2004 Aayitha Ezhuthu Sasi Madhavan, Surya, Trisha, Siddharth Mani Ratnam She outshone the other big names in the movie, earning appreciation for speaking her lines at a time when other actresses use dubbing artistes.
2004 Joot Meera Srikanth Azhagam Perumal The movie took a good opening but ended up with a lukewarm response.
2003 Anjaneya Divya Ajith Kumar Maharajan The movie that reminded Meera not to do such peripheral roles any more.
2003 Puthiya Geethai Sushi Vijay, Amisha Patel Jagan One of the few forgettable movies of her career.
2002 Bala Aarthi Shaam Deepak The Tamil audience reportedly cheered loudly when her name was shown and also when she made her first appearance in this movie.
2002 Run Priya Madhavan, Atul Kulkarni Linguswamy The movie that launched her career in a big way.

Malayalam Films

Year Film as Co-Stars Director Other Details
2006 Rasathantram Kanmani Mohanlal Sathyan Anthikkad She played a boy for several scenes in this movie.
2005 Achuvinte Amma Ashwathy Urvashi Sathyan Anthikkad This movie had a lengthy run of 200 days.
2004 Perumazhakkalam Raziya Kavya Madhavan Kamal This movie won a National Award in 2005 for Second Best Film on Social Issues.
2003 Chakram Indrani Prithviraj Lohithadas This movie did not do much for Meera's career.
2003 Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam Shahina Irshad T.V.Chandran Meera's National Award winning movie.
2003 Swapnakoodu Kamala Kunchacko Boban, Prithviraj, Bhavana Kamal She stood out from the crowd despite having another heroine and three heroes for company.
2003 Kasthoorimaan Priyamvada Kunchacko Boban Lohithadas Meera won a state award for this movie. It was later remade in Tamil.
2003 Gramaphone Jennifer Dileep, Navya Nair Kamal One of the early performances that gained her a reputation as a good actress.
2001 Soothradharan Shivani Dileep Lohithadas Although the movie was not a success, people took note of Meera's potential.

Telugu Films

Year Film as Co-Stars Director Other Details
2005 Bhadra Anu Ravi Teja, Prakash Raj Boyapati Srinu It was talked about as a rehash of Okkadu, but had enough freshness to become a hit.
2004 Gudumba Shankar Gowri Pawan Kalyan Veera Shankar Meera insisted on dubbing in her own voice in this movie, and surprised the unit by doing an excellent job.
2004 Ammayi Bagundi Janani/Satya Shivaji Balashekaran It's not every day a debut actress gets a double role, but Meera managed this rare feat in this movie.

Kannada Films

Year Film as Co-Stars Director Other Details
2004 Maurya Alamelu Puneeth Rajkumar Narayan This movie gave her the rare distinction of giving hits in all four South Indian languages.
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