SADHA PROFILE

Sadhaaf Syed Mohammed

Sadha (Born 17 February 1984, in India as Sadhaaf Syed Mohammed) is a popular Indian actress. Although, her mother-tongue is Marathi, she has acted in various Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies. Her Tamil Movie Anniyan is blockbuster in Tamil Nadu and also dubbed into Telugu as a name of Aparichithudu. And then, Anniyan was also dubbed into Hindi named Aparichit and that also scored well in box-office. Her recent Tamil movie,named Unnale Unnale was very big Music Hit in 2007.

Personal

Sadaf is an actress in Telugu and Tamil film industry. She is 5 feet 4 and 1/2 inches tall (quote from an interview). She has performed in all south Indian languages. She was born in a Marathi Muslim family from Ratnagiri, Maharashtra in India. She is the only daughter of her family. She did her schooling in Ratnagiri Sacred Hearts Convent and she went to Mumbai to continue her studies till her first movie was a commercial hit. She had completed her first semester in her Engineering in Information Technology at SNDT College of Engineering, Mumbai. She also is a trained Kathak dancer.

Career

Her debut was Jayam(Telugu) alongside Nitin. Afterwards, she acted in Aethiree opposite Madhavan and Varnajalam opposite Srikanth. She received a best Newcomer Filmfare Award for it in 2002. Her most successful movie to date was the Tamil Anniyan (2005). Once her debut Tamil movie Jeyam was a good hit, she discontinued her education and with her parents' support became a full-fledged actress. Her screen name is Sada, which was taken from her real name and her nick name is darlo (from the word "darling"). Although Marathi is her mother tongue, Sadha has good understanding of dialogues in movies before going for a take. This name made the whole industry to look out at her. To make a note of her first movies, she did Jayam in Telugu, (later in Tamil) and Monalisa her first release in Kannada. She was introduced by Telugu producer M.K. Mavullaya. Sada has shared her favorites and hobbies at different press meets and interviews. Sada admires Bollywood actresses like Madhuri Dixit and Meena Kumari and also Bollywood stars like Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan. She loves the movie Khao Na Pyar Hi and her hobbies include watching movies and listening to music. She sets her own code in dressing, and she hates smoking cigarettes. The Film Fare award for best new comer in 2002 for the film ‘Jeyam’ was won by her. The actress Sada has a target of proving herself as a good actress. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai alongside many other co-stars.

Filmography

Year Film Role Co-Stars Other notes Language
2008 Love Game Randeep Hooda Announced Hindi
2008 Click Shreyas Talpade Announced Hindi
2008 Sirf, Romance by Chance Zeenat Aman, Raj Babbar, Hyder Khan In Production Hindi
2008 Leelai Madhavan, Shamita Shetty In Production
Simulatenously made in Telugu as Adi Oka Idhi Le Tamil
2008 Novel Priya Nandini Jayaram Malayalam
2007 Takkari Priya Nitin Telugu
2007 Shankar Dada Zindabad Sandhya Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Karishma Kotak Guest appearance Telugu
2007 Classmates Raaji Sumanth, Ravi Varma, Sharwanand Telugu
2007 Unnale Unnale Jhansi Vinay, Tanisha Mukherjee Was Dubbed into Telugu Tamil
2007 Janmam Suresh Gopi, Karthika, Gopika, Samvrutha Sunil Single song appearance Malayalam
2006 Veerabhadra Balakrishna, Tanushree Dutta Telugu
2006 Mohini Audithya Kannada
2006 Thirupathi Priya Ajith Kumar Tamil
2006 Chukkallo Chandrudu Shravani Siddharth Narayan, Saloni Aswani, Charmme Kaur Telugu
2005 Priyasakhi Priya Madhavan Tamil
2005 Anniyan Nandini Raghuram Vikram Tamil
2005 Avunannaa Kaadannaa Aravinda Uday Kiran Telugu
2004 Varnajaalam Srikanth, Kutty Radhika Tamil
2004 Leela Mahal Center Anjali Aryan Rajesh Remake of Tamil film Amarkalam Telugu
2004 Mona Lisa Dhyan Kannada
2004 Aethiree Priya Madhavan, Kanika Tamil
2003 Jayam Sujatha Jayam Ravi Remake of Telugu film, Jayam Tamil
2003 Naaga Jr. NTR Telugu
2002 Jayam Sujatha Nitin Winner, Filmfare Award: Best Telugu Actress Telugu