"Vedam" Fame Lekha Washington

Name : Lekha Washington

Birth Date: 23rd August, 1984

Birthplace : Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Height : 5′6″

Star Sign : Gemini

Marital Status: Single

Hair: Black

Role model : Don’t have one person. I respect different people for different reasons.

Life Goal : To become a big actress in india .

Profession : VJ, Modeling & Actress.

Debut : Framed by Chetan Shah

Education : Degree from NID, Ahmedabad

Favorite Films: The Namesake, Mumbai Meri Jaan, and Maddy’s Evanao Oruvan, My preference is not for mainstream films

Favourite Books: I read a lot. Milan Kundera, graphic novels, Neil Gaiman is my favorite.

About her name: There’s no mystery to that. My father’s name is Washington – I have never even been to the U.S!

Tamil movies or Kollywood movies as they are also referred to have become increasingly popular over the last decade. One of their newest and most popular stars in Lekha Washington. At only 24 she is rapidly becoming one of the most talked about females in the industry. Lekha was raised in Chennai, India. She is however part Italian and part Burmese. In the very early stages of her career she featured in a small number of adverts. These were what brought her into the public eye.

Biography:

Lekha Washington was born and brought up in Chennai, India. She is part Maharashtrian, part Italian and part Burmese. Since Lekha`s humble beginnings in advertising she has blossomed into a successful actress. Lekha began her acting career in the the theatre after qualifying as a film-maker from NID in Ahmedabad. From here she progressed quickly in 2006 to become a VJ in the field of SS music. The shows that Lekha hosted in the early days were PCO and some months later she moved onto connect. She started by playing the leading role in the film 'Framed' directed by independent director Chetan Shah.

This young star from India is multi-talented. Not only can she sing and act she is also an extremely competent sculpture. Lekha had her first solo exhibition at the impressive age of 18. Although her career has been relatively short it has already been quite varied. From the sculpting the VJ activities and the theatre she swiftly moved into the film business.

After her stint at Video Jockeying, Lekha made it big nationally as one of the interviewers of the highly successful Indian Premier League (IPL). Adventure seems to be the second name of Lekha as he is very fond of adventure sport. She was in London recently and trained in parachute jumping.Will this adventurous streak land her in an action-oriented role a la Charlie’s Angles? Let’s wait and watch.

The Chennai-born girl is also a qualified documentary filmmaker. Lekha shot into national limelight in April 2008 when she co-hosted the first season of the Indian Premier League with Ajay Jadeja on Sony Max, where her easy banter and eye-catching looks won over fans and viewers in droves.

In October 2008, the sexy girl hosted the Al Barakha Canada Cup Twenty20 tournament on international television. An adventure sports addict, she has also hosted travel shows around the world, and been an active theatre enthusiast for much of the last eight years, directing her theatre group Khel.

Career:

A Maharashtran Burmese Italian Punjabi hybrid, Lekha Washington is engaged in Tamil Cinema playing lead actress roles. A well-known and critically acclaimed actress in Tamil cinema, her film Jeyam Kondaan (2008) co-starring Vinay ran for over a 100 days and was a great platform to prove her acting prowess in a lead role.

Lekha Washington who is debuting in tollywood in vedam is optimistic that she could make it to the big league once the Pushkar-Gayathri directed Tamil film 'Quarter Cutting' hits the screens. The VJ turned actress says she is playing a role with a difference in the movie.

"I play a 19-year-old girl studying Plus Two, who attempts suicide. While trying to kill self, the girl meets some people who change her life. The entire story happens in a single night", according to Lekha.

Claiming that the movie would be a new experience to the audience, the young actress says, "My thanks to Pushkar-Gayathri for roping in me for the role. They are very friendly and working with them is so wonderful."

Saying that she would do another film with the director duo, Lekha adds: "The movie has been tentatively titled 'Raakozhi'. Besides, I am there in a Kannada film directed by Lankesh, which has Sameer in the lead role."

After Asin and Shriya Saran, Lekha Washington is the latest south side actress to join Bollywood. And looking at her pictures, she promises to give tough competition to her counterparts. Rajeev stated that it was a bold scene and Lekha was uncomfortable shooting. Lekha expressed that Peter Gaya Kaam Se is a film for universal audiences and she didn’t see any reason to do the film barebacked.

Filmography:

Telugu:

Vedam ------ June 4 2010
Jayam Manadi --------Dec 7 2010

Tamil:

Quarter Cutting ---- 2010
Jayam Kondaan ------ Aug 29 2008
Unnale Unnale ----- Apr 14 2007

Kannada:

Thunta Thunti ----- 2010

Hindi:

Peter Gaya Kaam Se ----Aug 27 2010

Anushka As PANCHAKSHARI (2010) Movie Review by Greatandhra

Film: Panchakshari

Rating: 2/5

Banner: Sri Sai Ratna Creations

Cast: Anushka, Pradeep Rawat, Samrat, Brahmanandam, Ali, Nasser, Raghubabu, Ravi, Sudharani, M S, Jeeva, Chandramohan, Subbaraya Sharma, Telangana Sakuntala and others

Music: Chinna

Dialogues: Thota Prasad

Cinematography: Vasu

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Story: Madhu Vipparthi

Screenplay, direction: Samudra

Producer: Bommadevara Ramachandra Rao

Release date: 11/06/2010

The hot star Anushka who has swept the audience off their feet with ‘Arundhati’ has now arrived with another strong role.

The movie starts with 1985 backdrop where a girl is born at temple on a stormy night for a couple (Chandramohan and Rajitha). The temple priest who witnesses this, names the girl as Panchakshari. He also says that the girl gets goddess in her once in a year and for rest of 364 days she will be like normal girl.


Panchakshari (Anushka) is regarded as godwoman in the village and the pious devotees regularly do poojas in the temple and they also carry on a grand bonalu festival once in every year and sees goddess coming inside Panchakshari. They ask her some questions and clear their doubts and woes.

There is a cruel villain (Pradeep Rawat) in Janagam wants to pilfer the treasure underneath the temple, as reported by a secret Archeologist. Panchakshari and the devoted people in village become hurdles for him. So he wants to eliminate Panchakshari. Did he get succeeded in that?

On the other hand Honey (Anushka) is a fashion designer in city and has big dreams. She has a loving family and they want her to get married.

Sequence of events lead Honey to the Village and she makes few shocking discoveries. Who is Honey? What does Honey do to get out the problems? All this forms the rest of the story.


Performances:

Anushka has done her bit well and she has fitted herself aptly in the form of a city girl and also as a dedicated devotee. However, her character was not etched with intensity which led to hiccups.

Pradeep Rawat as usual flexed his muscles and used the dubbed baritone voice to look heavy. As such, his character could not deliver that evil shade though his screen presence was good.


Samrat was alright, the ‘Magadheera’ track of Brahmi failed to impress, Ali was alright, Nasser was natural, the artist doing Pradeep Rawat’s wife fitted the role well, Chandramohan was usual, Subbaraya Sharma was standard, Telangana Sakuntala, Raghu Babu, Sudha Rani were routine. Others were there to fill the screen.

Analysis:

The film runs on an age old track and we have seen that from the times of K R Vijaya so the content part was very weak.

The narrative was poor and the poor writing skills were seen. Few important scenes lacked conviction and what was meant to be an emotional scene ended up becoming a comedy scene for the audience. There are many inconsistencies in the script and not one track fails to take off for a continuous time to engage the audience. It is like bits and pieces put together. One can clearly see traces of ‘Ammoru’ ‘Arundhati’ etc but there is no comparison between them and this same old story.

Samudra has got a very silly way of having comedy and the same silliness is seen even in some crucial scenes. He sure has to update himself with the taste of the audience and the ability to involve them in the film.

Anushka’s introduction song must have been canned in the backdrop of some mall instead of temple. Wearing western outfits and shaking her ‘back’ in front of camera is disgusting and proves to be a wrong blend.

Anushka failed to show ‘roudram’ in her eyes in climax shot. She kept the tongue out like a patient before a doctor but not as Mahakali.

Screenplay is not intact and failed to pull audiences interest

Chandramohan revealing his connection with Nazar sounded like a comedy. People are laughing at this amateur scene in theater.

‘Magadheera’ comedy of Brahmanandam is not presented well.

Ali’s comedy started with great expectations but ended up weak.


Aghora’s character couldn’t pump in fear factor but boosted up sense of humor among audiences those were seen cracking jokes looking at that character

The villain factor is poor and the protagonist Panchakshari’s character is not presented with elevation. The initial scene says that Panchakshari is going to be powerful divine girl. But that’s not shown in required tempo afterwards.

Songs are good, cinematography is excellent and the art direction is also impressive. On a whole, this movie is ruled out for A centers and it’s a doubt if B, C center audience patronage this as their taste is also changing from decade to decade. This movie recalls the goddess movies of 80s and early 90s.

Bottom Line: Panchakshari- Punch Less

Power Star playing important role in Singeetam Srinivas's Movie

This is typical Pawan Kalyan for you. Apparently, our power star Pawan Kalyan is playing a prominent role in a film directed by Singeetam Srinivas Rao and produced by Konda Krishnam Raju (Telugu). This film is based on the life of Jesus Christ.

Singeetam Srinivas Rao is an ace director, who earlier made smash hits like ‘Vichitra Sodaralu’, ‘Pushpaka Vimanam’, and ‘Aditya 369’. This untitled film starring Pawan Kalyan would be made in four languages - English, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam. In all these four languages, a local hero would play a prominent role, while rest of the cast includes kids and child artists. And for Telugu version, Pawan Kalyan would be essaying a role.

Producer Konda Krishnam Raju said that the film is based on the life of Jesus Christ and we are planning to rope in top stars for each language to play in Telugu version. Asked what role Pawan Kalyan is playing, Konda Krishnam Raju replied, “It’s too early to reveal his role”. The shooting might commence in July in Mumbai.