Ankitha
Ankitha is an Indian actress, who has worked in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films.
Ankitha Jhaveri | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ankitha Jhaveri[1] 27 May 1982 [2] Breach Candy, Mumbai, India |
| Other names | Rasna baby |
| Occupation | Actress ; Producer |
| Years active | 2003–2012 |
| Spouse(s) | Vishal Jagtap ( m. 2016) |
Personal life
In March 2016, Ankita married Vishal Jagtap, a Mumbai-based man in New Jersey, who is VP of applications at JP Morgan Chase & Co.[3]
Career
Ankitha is a former child actor in the prestigious advertising campaign for juice drink product Rasna in the 1980s in India on national TV and was known as the "Rasna baby" as a child actor.[4] Her breakthrough in films came with Simhadri starring NTR Jr. The film was the highest grossing action movie at the box office in 2003. In 2005, she appeared in back-to-back Tamil films directed by Sundar C, featuring alongside Prashanth in London and then in Thaka Thimi Tha with newcomer Yuvakrishna. She moved to Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA extension in a Media & Entertainment Studies program while simultaneously working in Development at Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment as well as producer Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment.
Her first break in American Television came on 3 February 2013 when her GoDaddy Commercial aired during the XLVII Super Bowl. Ankitha recently starred in a short film directed by Chicago-based Indian director Pradeep Paga alongside actor Aalok Mehta (of 'American Chai' fame) titled 'Waiting'.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo | Priya | Telugu | |
| Dhanalakshmi I Love You | Dhanalakshmi | |||
| Premalo Pavani Kalyan | Pavani | |||
| 2003 | Sriram | Kannada | ||
| Simhadri | Kasturi | Telugu | ||
| 2004 | Andaru Dongale Dorikithe | Usha | ||
| Vijayendra Varma | Venkatalakshmi | |||
| 2005 | Manasu Maata Vinadhu | Anu | ||
| London | Anjali | Tamil | ||
| Thaka Thimi Tha | Gayathri | |||
| 2006 | Raraju | Telugu | ||
| Khatarnak | Special appearance | |||
| Seetharamudu | Anjali | |||
| 2007 | Thiru Ranga | Shri | Tamil | |
| Julayi | Shruthi | Telugu | ||
| Nava Vasantham | Priya | |||
| Anasuya | ||||
| 2008 | Raja Raja | Sravani | ||
| 2009 | Tsunami 7x | |||
| Police Adhikari |
References
- http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/10853.html
- "Birthday 2007 - Ankita". Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- "Ankitha Jhaveri". Stars Fact. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/46590.html