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:நமிதா கபூர்)is a popular South Indian actress.

[edit] Biography

Born and raised in Kurichi, Real name Namita M Vankawala, studied at Ratnam Arts College, Surat. Her father is a businessman and her mother is a housewife. She became popular after acting in the Tamil film Engal Anna with Vijayakanth. After being crowned Miss Surat in 1998, she participated in the Miss India contest in 2001. she also won people's favourite award to win miss india world title.It brought Namitha roles in the Telugu film industry. After entering Tollywood, she immediately grabbed the attention of Telugu film lovers with Sontham and acted in Gemini as Bhairavi though the films didn’t fare well in the box office. Namitha. appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning. She has also Tamil and Malayalam films to her credit. She is a Taurean, stands five foot eight inches (5'8") or 1.72M tall and weighs about 80 kilos . She may well become Indian movie industry's answer to Lucy Lawless (She is known to be quite fearless in real life too).^[2]

[edit] Film Career

She started out by participating in the Femina Miss India Contest. She was born on May 10, 1981 in Surat, India. She has acted in Telugu,Tamil, Kannada, Hindi films. Although she started out in Telugu movies, she became famous after the Tamil film Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth. She starred in Tamil Film "Aai" the song "Arjuna Arjuna" along with Sarath Kumar, which ended up as a big hit. This movie dubbed in hindi as Nayi Baazi (going to release very soon). Being tremendously well endowed and very voluptuous, she's constantly cast in almost all her films, entirely for skin show. Her screen name for the first two Telugu movies was Bhairavi.^[3] She was crowned Miss Surat in 1998 and came fourth in the Miss India contest during the year 2001 along with Trisha Krishnan and Celina Jaitley, who was crowned Miss India Universe. She has also appeared in an English film named Maya directed by Eric Manning.

Namitha reportedly is geared up for a glam show in 'Jagan Mohini', the remake of the 1978 classic that virtually took the Tamil film industry by storm.

Produced by H Murali and directed by N K Viswanathan, the new version is nearing completion. On the reason behind casting Namitha, Murali said, 'Why Namitha? She's one actress with glamour. She was the first name that came to our minds.'

Says Viswanathan: 'The new version will be made with state-of-the-art techniques. The scene where Namitha harvests pearls underwater will be a major highlight.'

'Namitha has been given special training on harvesting pearls underwater and when the scene was shot in Andaman, fishermen gathered in large numbers to watch and applaud her feat', says Viswanathan.

After a brief gap, Nila is back in Tamil to play the role of the prince's consort. Ilayaraja is scoring the music for 'Jagan Mohini'.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Language	Film	Co-Stars	Director	Role
2008	Malayalam	Black Stallion	Kalabhavan Mani	Pramod Pappan	Announced
2008	Tamil	Indira Vizha	Srikanth	Rajeshwar	Announced
2008	Tamil	1977	Sarath Kumar	Madhuravan	Announced
2008	Tamil	K	Silambarasan,	Nandakumar
2008	Tamil	Idi	Sundar C	Sakthi Chidambaram	Filming
2008	Tamil	Jaganmo	Raja	Vishwanathan	Filming
2008	Tamil	Thee	Sundar C	Kicha	Filming
2008	Tamil	Perumal	Sundar C	Vincent Selvah	Filming
2008	English	Maya	Sunny Malick	Eric Manning	Post Production
2008	Kannada	Indra	Darshan	H.Vasu
2008	Tamil	Pandi	Raghava Lawrence	Madhuravan
2008	Tamil	Sandai	Sundar C	Sakthi Chidambaram
2008	Tamil	Billa	Ajith	Vishnuvardhan	C.J
2007	Tamil	Azhagiya Tamil Magan	Vijay, Shriya Saran	Bharathan	Dhanalakshmi
2007	Tamil	Naan Avanillai	Jeevan, Sneha, Jyothirmayi, Keerthi Chawla	Selva	Monika Prasad
2007	Tamil	Vyapari	SJ Suryah, Tamanna, Namitha	Shakti Chidambaram
2006	Kannada	Neelkanta	Ravichandran	Om Sai Prakash
2006	Tamil	Nee Venunda Chellam	Ramesh, Gajala
2006	Tamil	Thagapansamy	Prasanth, Pooja Umashankar
2006	Tamil	Pachchak Kuthira	Parthiban
2006	Hindi	Love Ke Chakker Mein
2006	Tamil	Kovai Brothers	Sibiraj, Sathyaraj
2005	Tamil	Aanai	Arjun Sarja, Keerthi Chawla
2005	Telugu	Nayakudu	Dr. Rajsekhar	Kodi Ramakrishna
2005	Tamil	Bambara Kannaley	Srikanth, Arthi Agarwal		cameo
2005	Tamil	Chanakya	Sarath Kumar
2005	Tamil	Aei	Sarath Kumar
2005	Telugu	Aithe Enti	Soma Vijayaprakash
2004	Telugu	Oka Radha Iddaru Krushnula Pelli	Prabhu Deva, Srikanth
2004	Tamil	Engal Anna	Vijayakanth
2003	Telugu	Oka raju Oka Rani	Raviteja
2002	Telugu	Gemini	Venkatesh	Saran
2002	Telugu	Sontam	,Rohit	Sreenu Vitla

[edit] Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (May 2008)

She is the only daughter in her family.
She loves White and Black colours. White roses are her favourite flowers.
She swims and plays badminton in her free time. She used to coach swimming for kids.
She Often appears on front covers of Tamil magazines (i.e. once every 3 weeks)^[4].
She is a promoter for Gadgetguru.
Born in Surat^[5], brought up in Bombay, first starred in a Tamil movie by Malayalam director Siddhique.
Has appeared in TV commercials for Himami cream & hand soap, Arun Ice Cream, Manikchand

Gutka, and Nile herbal shampoo.

She was a judge in the dance show maanada mayilada on Kalaignar TV. Along with famous choreographers Kala Master and Brinda Master.
She replaced Simran on Maanada Mayilada.
Her figure is 38 - 34 - 38