Pooja Hegde

Pooja Hegde (born 13 October 1990) is an Indian film actress who appears mainly in Telugu and Hindi films. A former beauty pageant contestant, she was crowned as the second runner-up at the Miss Universe India 2010 competition, before going on to make her acting debut in Mysskin's Tamil superhero film Mugamoodi (2012). She then featured in the Telugu films Oka Laila Kosam and Mukunda (2014), while signing on to feature as the lead actress in Ashutosh Gowariker's Mohenjo Daro (2016) along with Hrithik Roshan.[1]

Pooja Hegde
Hegde at Lakme Fashion Week in 2018
Born (1990-10-13) 13 October 1990
Mumbai, Maharastra, India
NationalityIndian
EducationM.Com
OccupationActress
Years active2012–present

Early life

Pooja Hegde was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her parents Manjunath Hegde and Latha Hegde are from Mangalore, Karnataka. Her mother tongue is Tulu, and she is also fluent in English, Marathi, and Hindi.[2] She revealed that she went to M. M. K. College. She regularly sought to enter in intercollegiate competitions, participating in dance and fashion shows.[3]

Career

She competed in the Miss India 2009 competition, but was eliminated in an early round despite winning the Miss India Talented 2009 honour. She re-applied the following year and was the second runner-up in the Miss Universe India 2010 competition, while also being crowned Miss India South Glamorous Hair 2010 in the subsidiary competition. She made her acting debut in Mysskin's Tamil superhero film Mugamoodi (2012) opposite Jiiva, portraying the female lead character of Shakthi, a fun-loving girl who inspires the male lead to change his outlook on society. She was selected after Mysskin had seen still photographs from her pageant success, and Hegde helped practice Tamil dialogue for the film by writing and memorizing words in English, adding that the similarity between Tamil and her native tongue Tulu was also useful. Prior to release, the film garnered high expectations as a result of the novel theme of a superhero in Tamil films and the film took a grand opening at the box office in August 2012. However, the film received mixed to negative reviews from critics, hampering its progress, and the film ended up becoming a surprise commercial failure.[4] Hegde's performance also received mixed reviews with a critic from Sify.com citing that she "disappoints", though a critic from The Hindu noted "she doesn’t have much scope for talent display."[5] She earned a nomination for the Best Tamil Female Debut Actress at the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards, but lost out to Lakshmi Menon.[6]

Her second film release, the Telugu film Oka Laila Kosam (2014), featured her opposite Naga Chaitanya. She was praised for her performance in the movie. Around the same time, she bagged the nomination for Best Actress at the 62nd Filmfare Awards (South).[7] Following a production house and the success of the director Vijay Konda's previous venture, had prompted her to work on the project. She undertook Telugu lessons to help her portray the leading female role. She is also currently filming for Mukunda opposite debutant Varun Tej, nephew of actor Chiranjeevi. The romantic-action tale, set in the backdrop of a village, will release in late 2014.[8][9] In her second Telugu film, Hegde impressed many with her memorable performance in Gopikamma song from Mukunda.

In July 2014, Hegde agreed terms to make her Bollywood debut opposite Hrithik Roshan in Ashutosh Gowariker's period film Mohenjo Daro, set against the backdrop of the Indus Valley civilisation. She was selected after Gowariker's wife had spotted her in an advertisement and called her to audition, which she successfully completed.[10][11] As a result of her commitment to the film, she revealed that she would take a break from appearing in regional Indian movies until her Hindi film's release and rejected an opportunity to work in a film directed by Mani Ratnam.[12][13] Mohenjo Daro released in 2016 which was panned by critics[14] and became major box office flop.[15].In 2017, she appeared in Telugu-language vigilante action comedy film Duvvada Jagannadham along side actor Allu Arjun.[16]

In 2018, she featured in three Telugu films. The first is a Special appearance in the song "Jigelu Rani" for the period action Rangasthalam. Later in Saakshyam, alongside Bellamkonda Sreenivas[17] and Trivikram Srinivas-directed action-drama Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava, opposite Jr. NTR.[18] In 2019 too, she made an appearance in three films which are Maharshi, Gaddalakonda Ganesh and Housefull 4. Maharshi is a Telugu-language action film, directed by Vamsi Paidipally co-starred by Mahesh Babu. It received mixed reviews on release.[19] Her second Telugu film in the same year was action-thriller the Harish Shankar-directed action thriller film Gaddalakonda Ganesh, a remake of the 2014 Tamil-language film Jigarthanda, featuring Varun Tej and Atharvaa along with her.[20] Pooja returned to Bollywood after a gap of three years with Sajid Nadiadwala's comedy film directed by Farhad Samji, featuring her as Rajkumari Mala and Pooja (reincarnated),[21] which went on to gross over ₹280 crore worldwide.[22] Her 2020 Telugu-language action drama film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, along side Allu Arjuna and directed by Trivikram, became one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time, grossing nearly ₹250 crore.[23]

Her upcoming projects include a romantic multilingual film with Prabhas[24] and Most Eligible Bachelor, directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar opposite Akhil Akkineni and produced by Bunny Vas and Vasu Varma.[25][26] As of February 2020. she will star opposite Salman Khan in his upcoming film Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali, which will be directed by Farhad Samji.[27]

Filmography
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Title Role(s) Language(s) Notes Ref.
2012 Mugamoodi Shakthi Tamil [28]
2014 Oka Laila Kosam Nandana Telugu [29]
Mukunda Gopika [30]
2016 Mohenjo Daro Chaani Hindi [31]
2017 Duvvada Jagannadham Pooja Telugu [32]
2018 Rangasthalam  ———  Special appearance in the song "Jigelu Rani" [33]
Saakshyam Soundarya Lahari [34]
Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava Aravinda [35]
2019 Maharshi Pooja [36]
Gaddalakonda Ganesh Sridevi [37]
Housefull 4 Rajkumari Mala / Pooja Hindi [38]
2020 Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Amulya Telugu [39]
2021 Most Eligible Bachelor Vibha Filming [26]
Radhe Shyam TBA Telugu
Hindi		 Filming [40]

Awards and nominations
Year Film Award Category Result Ref.
2013 Mugamoodi 2nd SIIMA Awards Best Female Debutant – Tamil Nominated [41]
2015 Oka Laila Kosam 4th SIIMA Awards Best Female Debutant – Telugu Nominated [42]
62nd Filmfare Awards South Best Actress – Telugu Nominated [43]
2016 Mohenjo Daro Stardust Awards Best Debut – Female Nominated [44]
2017 Duvvada Jagannadham Zee Telugu Golden Awards Entertainer Of The Year (Female) Won [45]
2019 Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava 66th Filmfare Awards South Best Actress – Telugu Nominated [46][47]
2020 Maharshi Zee Cine Awards Telugu Favourite Actress Won [48]
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