Shamlee

 ( Indian Film Actresses ) 

Shamlee (born 10 July 1987) is an Indian former actress who has worked in Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Kannada cinema, and Malayalam cinema films. Her roles include the mentally challenged child Anjali in the 1990 Tamil-language film Anjali, for which she won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist, and a child trapped inside a bore-well in the Malayalam-language film Malootty, which won her a Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. She has also won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Female Child Actor for her performance in her Kannada debut Mathe Haditu Kogile.

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Early life Shamlee is from a family of actors, being the younger sister to actor Richard Rishi and actress Shalini Kumar. She was born to Babu and Alice. Her father migrated to Madras with an ambition of becoming an actor and the family settled there. Later he fulfilled his ambition through his children.

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Career Shamlee started acting at the age of two in Tamil Cinema with the Vijaykanth starrer Rajanadai. In 1990, she acted in Bharathan's Malootty, a film based on Jessica McClure. Her performance won her critical appreciation and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. "Kerala State Film Awards" Her breakthrough came with Mani Ratnam's Anjali, in which she portrayed a mentally challenged child, which earned her widespread critical acclaim across South India and the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. At that time, Shamlee was regarded as one of the youngest income tax assessees ever. After Anjali, Shamlee became inarguably the most sought out child artist in South Indian cinema and, thus in subsequent years, acted in many roles in all four South Indian languages.

In 2009, she played her first female lead role in Anand Ranga's directorial debut Oy! (2009) alongside Siddarth with her performance receiving a mixed response. Between 2010 and 2015, Shamili studied and worked in Singapore and later returned to Chennai to work on the production of Veera Sivaji alongside Vikram Prabhu in 2016, which was panned by critics. Her performance also received negative reviews with indiaglitz claiming “Shamlee gets a forgettable debut as a heroine in Tamil. Her lip sync is poor and the scenes involving her do no help her either”. and sify also stating she is “as stiff as a wax statue with barely any emotion”. Shamili also acted in the Malayalam film Valleem Thetti Pulleem Thetti the same year, which was also panned and received negative reviews.

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Filmography

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As child artist

1990	Tamil dubbed as Meesaikaran
	- National Film Award for Best Child Artist Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Child Artist
	- Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist
	- Karnataka State Film Award for Best Child Artist
	Tamil
Hindi dubbed as Mawali Raj
- Cinema Express Award for Best Child Artist
1996

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As lead actress

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