Bhama

Bhama
Born	Rekitha Rajendra Kurup Kottayam
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007 – present
Parent(s)	Rajendran Kurup, Shylaja

Bhama (Rekitha Rajendra Kurup, born 23 May 1989) is an Indian film actress, who has mainly appeared in Malayalam and Kannada language films. She debuted in 2007 through Nivedyam directed by A. K. Lohithadas.

Personal life

Bhama is the youngest daughter of Rajendra Kurup & Shylaja. She has two elder sisters, Reshmitha and Renjitha. She completed her schooling from St Mary's Higher Secondary School & Infant Jesus School Manarcad. She pursued bachelors in Sociology by correspondence.^[1]

Career

Before her entry into the film industry, she was the host of a show on Surya TV titled Thaali. She has also acted in a Christian devotional album. Director Lohithadas, whom she considers her Mentor/Guru cast her in Nivedyam, her first movie. Her second film was Hareendran Oru Nishkalankan directed by Vinayan, in which she was cast opposite Manikuttan. She paired with Vineeth Sreenivasan in Cycle directed by Johny Antony.

Bhama said that until 2011, she was getting the same kind of roles in Malayalam. She started taking up Kannada film offers, after which she started getting fresh and interesting characters in Malayalam.^[2] She acted in Sohanlal's Kadhaveedu, where she played the heroine in M. T. Vasudevan Nair's segment and her character was that of a modern girl, a media person, who is smart and energetic. She had a small but significant role in Vinod Vijayan's segment of D Company, Day of Judgement, featuring Fahadh Faasil where she played a psycho and wore no make-up.^[3] In 2014, she had five Malayalam releases. She played a Christian housewife in Rakesh Gopan's 100 Degree Celsius and was seen as a 15-year-old mother in Vinod Mankara's Ottamandaram.^[4] In her only non-Malayalam release of the year, the Tamil-English biographical film Ramanujan based on the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, she played the role of Janakiammal, Ramanujan's wife.^[5]

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Playback singing

Bhama has occasionally worked as a playback singer as well. She had reportedly sung the song "Kannil Kannil", composed by Rahulraj for a film titled Bike;^[7][8] however the film was cancelled and the song remains unreleased. She lent her voice for the devotional album Maaya Madhavam (2009),^[9] and has crooned the title song for the upcoming children’s film Meow Meow Karimppoocha.^[10] She has sung a song in the movie 100 Degree Celsius along with other heroines Ananya, Meghna Raj and Shweta Menon.

Awards

• 2007 – Asianet Film Award for Best Star Pair Award, Nivedyam (shared with Vinu Mohan)^[11]
• 2007 – Sathyan Memorial Film Award for Best Newcomer – Nivedyam^[12]
• 2007 – Film Critics Award for Best Newcomer – Nivedyam^[13]
• 2007 – Ala Award for Best Actress – Nivedyam^[14]
• 2007 – Vanitha Nippon Award for Best Newcomer – Nivedyam^[15]
• 2008 – Amma Award for Best Screen Pair – Cycle
• 2009 – Mathrubhumi-Amritha Award for Best Screen Pair – Ivar Vivahitharayal (shared with Jayasurya)^[16]

Filmography

Television

• Thaali (Surya TV)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bhama.

• Bhama at the Internet Movie Database
• Bhama on Facebook