Happy Birthday Meenakshi Seshadri: This legendary actress, Kumar Shanu had unrequited love for 23 years
New Delhi Today is Meenakshi Seshadri’s birthday. Meenakshi has given superhit films like Damini, Khatik, Hero, Meri Jung, Shahenshah, Ghar Ho To Aisa, Storm and Ghayal. He ruled Bollywood in the 80s and 90s. Apart from Hindi, he also acted in Tamil and Telugu films. Today, on the occasion of Meenakshi’s birthday, everyone knows everything about her personal and professional life.
Meenakshi Seshadri was born on 16 November 1963 in Sindri, Jharkhand into a Tamil family. Meenakshi Seshadri won the Miss India title in 1981 at the age of just 17. After this, Painter Babu made his Bollywood debut with the film. But Meenakshi Seshadri got recognition in Bollywood from Subhash Ghai’s film Hero. His next film opposite was Jackie Shroff. After this, Meenakshi made her acting debut in Bollywood. In 1991 and 1994, he was awarded the Filmfare Award for Jurm and Damini respectively.
Settled in America after marriage
After ruling Bollywood, Meenakshi Seshadri married investment banker Harish Mysore in 1995 and moved to the US. They have a daughter and a son. The daughter’s name is Kendra and the son’s name is Josh. In 1996, she was last seen on the big screen in Deadly and then Swami Vivekananda. After this, Meenakshi may have kept distance from films but kept herself attached to dance. In Texas, Meenakshi runs her own dance school, ‘Charish Dance School’. Here classical dance ie Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathak and Odissi teach dance themes.
— Meenakshi Seshadri (@MinaxhiSeshadri) September 17, 2019
Here I am judging a dance talent contest in Portland. pic.twitter.com/C4nCK5WfpC
— Meenakshi Seshadri (@MinaxhiSeshadri) September 16, 2019
Kumar meets Shanu at the crime show premiere
According to a report, Kumar Sanu sang the song ‘Jab koi baati badge jaye ..’ in Meenakshi’s film ‘Jurm’. Kumar met Meenakshi during the premiere show. It is said that upon seeing Meenakshi, Kumar was able to give her heart. But this relationship did not reach any point.
