Radhika Kumaraswamy Filmography: Look at HD Kumaraswamy's Second Wife's Acting & Production Projects in South Movie Industry
Radhika Kumaraswamy is a popular face in the film industry down south. Her filmography has several Tamil and Telugu movies.
The Karnataka elections created quite a dramatic scenario in this entire week. HD Kumaraswamy gets ready to become the Karnataka chief minister but other it was his second wife Radhika who was on top of the google trends search. Radhika Kumaraswamy is a popular face in the film industry down south. Her filmography has several Tamil and Telugu movies. Radhika was, in fact, a very prominent lead actress in Kannada films in the early 2000s.
Radhika's career graph started at a very young age. She did her first film Neela Megha Shama, when she hadn't even passed out of her school. Her first release was Ninagagi opposite Vijay Raghavendra in the year 2002. The film got such a great response that it became one among the highest grosser of that year. In the year 2002 itself, Radhika did four films and her career was blossoming. In 2003, she did 5 Kannada films. But luck did not favour her as much then. The films did not receive a good response but Radhika's work was remembered. She won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress for the film Tayi Illada Tabbali.
As her luck didn't strike much in the Kannada film industry, she turned to Tamil cinema. Her debut Tamil film was S. P. Jananathan's award-winning debut directorial Iyarkai. Radhika got a good response from the critics for her role as Nancy in the film. Between 2004-2006, she dabbled in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. Tamil film Ulla Kadathal, that remains her last Tamil release. Radhika Kumaraswamy, Wife of HD Kumaraswamy Trends as Husband is Ready to Be CM: View Pics of Actress to Know More
Soon Radhika took a 5-year long hiatus after her film Navashakthi Vaibhava. Radhika did not limit herself to an actress, she was also a producer and distributor. She made a comeback in 2013 with a Kannada romantic film Sweety Nanna Jodi. Even though she had been on a break, she was just a delight to watch on the screen when she was back. This was also her own production. In the following years, she did just 1 film a year. But in this year she has at least 4 projects in hand. She is working on 4 Kannada films- Kontract, Baira Devi, Rajendra Ponappa and Nimagagi.
Celebrity and politicians wives have been a topic of discussion and sometimes even controversies, given their very popular other halves. But Radhika Kumaraswamy became a trend due to her own stardom and the news of her husband HD Kumaraswamy contesting the Karnataka elections only fueled it more. With four of her movies in the filming stage and soon to be released, we are sure she will once again become a hot topic of discussion.
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