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Sanchita Shetty
Shetty 61st Idea Filmfare Awards South
Born	Sanchita Shetty (1989-04-07) April 7, 1989 (age 35) Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Years active	2006–present

Sanchita Shetty is an Indian actress, who has appeared predominantly in Tamil and Kannada films. She appeared in supporting roles at the beginning of her career. She got her first breakthrough after starring in the female lead role in Soodhu Kavvum (2013).

Film career

Early Career (2006-2012)

She made her first film appearance in the Kannada hit film Mungaru Male (2006) as a friend to the film's female lead (Pooja Gandhi). In the next, she appeared in supporting roles in three Kannada films such as Milana (2007), Uda (2009) and Bhaya.com (2009). She also appeared in a film titled Gaganachukki, which never released. She left the Kannada industry to work in Tamil and she was not willing to do anymore second lead roles. She acted for her first Tamil film Azhukkan Azhagakiran (2010). She is best known for featuring alongside Jayam Ravi in Thillalangadi (2010), with the director of the film Mohan Raja recommending her to also star in Orange (2010) featuring Ram Charan. In 2012, she signed her first leading role in Kollaikaran.

Recognition and success (2013-2021)

Shetty has played female lead character in Nalan Kumarasamy's black comedy Soodhu Kavvum which was a critical and commercial success, collecting over ₹50 crore (US$5.9 million) and it is to be considered biggest success in her career. She played an imaginary character in the film, which was received well. Sify wrote, "Sanchita Shetty as his (Vijay Sethupathy) girlfriend is smashing and delivers some one-liners with perfect lip sync". The film went on to be remade in several other Indian languages and Shetty expressed interest in reprising the role in its remakes as well. Then, she is paired with Ashok Selvan in Pizza II: Villa (2013).

In 2016, she signed a Kannada film after five years, Badmaash directed by Akash Srivatsa, which will see her playing a Radio Jockey. In Tamil, she continued to perform simultaneously as Ennodu Vilayadu (2017), Rum (2017), Enkitta Mothathe (2017), Yenda Thalaiyila Yenna Vekkala (2018) and Johnny (2018). In 2021, she appeared in Devadas Brothers and Vinodhaya Sitham.

Filmography

References

1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4195102/
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7. "I'm afraid of the dark: Sanchita Shetty - Times of India". The Times of India.
8. "'Chennai Express' Director to Remake 'Soodhu Kavvum' in Hindi". International Business Times. 12 October 2013.
9. Chowdhary, Y. Sunita (11 December 2013). "Performance is the key". The Hindu.
10. "Sify Movies - Review listing". Archived from the original on 4 May 2013.
11. "Keen to do 'Soodhu Kavvum' in other languages: Sanchita". 28 October 2013. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014.
12. "Sanchita shuns make-up in 'Pizza 2: Villa'".
13. "Sanchita Shetty makes a comeback to Sandalwood - Times of India". The Times of India.
14. "The story makes a star: Sanchita Shetty".

External links

• Sanchita Shetty at IMDb

• Actresses in Kannada cinema
• Actresses from Mangalore
• Actresses in Tamil cinema
• Actresses in Telugu cinema
• Living people
• Indian film actresses
• 21st-century Indian actresses
• 1989 births