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| Bikini Aunts: Radha, Swapna and Madhavi with Kamalahassan |
Madhavi was a famous South Indian film actress. She played the heroine role for 17 years in five languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi.
Madhavi was born on 14 th September, 1962 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Her parents are Sasirekha and Govinda Swamy. She has a brother and a sister.
She started dancing when she was eight years old. She became a well-known Bharat Natyam dancer and has given more than a thousand performances.
She had appeared in small roles in films as a child actress. While studying in eighth grade at Stanley Girls High School in Hyderabad, she was discovered by famous film director Dasari Narayana Rao who cast her in the leading role in the Telugu film "Thoorpu Padamara," which was a huge success, and catapulted her to stardom.
The film became a huge hit. Then the director K. Balachander then cast her in a supporting role in his hit Telugu film Marocharithra (1979). She repeated her role in the Hindi remake Ek Duje Ke Liye (1981), which became the top grossing film of 1981. In both films, she showed remarkable sensitivity as a lonely wealthy woman who falls in love with Kamal Haasan. She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Supporting Actress.