Yamuna (actress)
Quick Facts
Biography
Yamuna is an Indian actress predominately appeared in Telugu films in 1990's. She appeared in award winning films like Mamagaru, Mouna Poratam, Yerra Mandaram. After having a career with films, she also acted in TV serials. In 2011 police arrested her in a prostitution case, however she denied such claims.
Personal life
Yamuna was born as Prema. Director Balachander changed her name to Yamuna.
Brothel Issue
Yamuna was arrested for her alleged involvement in a brothel racket in the ITC Royal Gardenia, a five star hotel in Bangalore in January, 2011. However she denied that she was involved in such an act. She also revealed that she never visited that hotel on that day. She also revealed in an interview that at some point she wanted to commit suicide because of the false allegations, but refrained from doing so because of the future of her children. Later in an interview she said she was exonerated by the court of charges.Yamuna is come out from Court in clean judgements. She is now free from all previous issues.
Career
Yamuna shot into fame in 1989 with award winning Telugu film Mouna Poratam which is based on the real-life story of Sabita Badhei, which gained massive media coverage. Yamuna played the role of Durga who is betrayed by a government officer and fights for her conjugal rights, seeking marital recognition to give proper identity to her illegitimate child. Later she played one of the heroines opposite Vinod Kumar in another award winning film Mamagaru. In the 1990 film Puttinti Pattu Cheera, she played the role of an unlucky daughter who is harassed by her in-laws. She was also played the lead actress in 1990 film Erramandaram which bagged the Best feature film Nandi Award. She also acted in Kannada films with Siva Rajkumar and Ravichandran. After her marriage, she took a break from acting. After the break she started acting in TV serials. She appeared in a popular horror serial Anveshitha which was broadcast on ETV.
Filmography
- Yerra Mandaram
- Mamagaru as Lakshmi
- Mouna Poratam
- College Bullodu
- Puttinti Pattu Cheera
- Brahmachari Mogudu
- Bangaru Kutumbam
- Govinda Govinda
- Surigaadu
- Aadarsham as Rani
- Dear Brother
- Udyamam
- Eduruleni Manishi
- Sri Manjunatha
- Manasu Pilichindi
- Bhageerathudu
TV series
- Vidhi (ETV) as Saroja / Rosy
- Allare Allari (ETV Plus)