

She is known for her versatility as an actress and for the glamorous outlook she embodied. In addition to a Filmfare Best Actress Award, she also won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for the "most outstanding work of the year", for her work in Julie. Chattakari (1974) was remade in Hindi as Julie (1975) and in Telugu as Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). This has the distinction of being the first Malayalam film to run continuously for 40 weeks in a Bangalore theatre. Lakshmi rose to fame with her first Malayalam movie Chattakari (1974), which won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress. She established herself as a successful and popular actress in South India in the 1970s, acting in all four South Indian languages: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Her father, Yaragudipati Varada Rao, was an Indian film producer, director, thespian, screenwriter, editor and actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu, Kannada and Tamil cinema. Her mother Kumari Rukmini was a Tamil actress. Lakshmi was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 4.8 South India International Movie Awards.4.7 Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards.She is the only actress who has won the Filmfare Awards South & Filmfare Award Best Actress for eight times in all regional languages. After appearing as a lead actress for more than a decade, she switched over to character roles. Lakshmi made her Bollywood debut in 1975, with the woman-centric Julie, the remake of Malayalam film Chattakkari. She has won one National Film Award for Best Actress, nine Filmfare Awards South, three Nandi Awards, Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress, Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress for the movie Hoovu Hannu, the Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards and various other state awards. She then went on to appear in a number of commercially successful films in various languages. Her performance in Mithunam (2012) is regarded as one of the "100 Greatest Performances of the Decade" by Film Companion. In 1974, Her second Malayalam film, Chattakari went on to become a blockbuster throughout India. In the same year, she also debuted in Kannada and Telugu films with Goa Dalli CID 999 and Bandhavyalu, respectively. Her debut as an actress happened with the Tamil film Jeevanaamsam in 1968. She made her film debut through a Tamil film Sri Valli in 1961. Yaragudipadi Venkata Mahalakshmi (born: ( )13 December 1952), known professionally as Lakshmi, is an Indian actress known for her work primarily in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films.
