Actor · Telugu cinema
Kamalinee Mukherjee
Kamalinee Mukherjee movies: 16 Telugu films on file, 2004–2014. Earliest on file: Anand (2004). Latest release: Govindudu Andarivadele (1 October 2014).
- Films on file
- 16 (16 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2004–2014
- Born
- 4 March 1984 · March birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Govindudu Andarivadele, Jalsa, Shirdi Sai
- Record
- Q3520260 on Wikidata
Kamalinee Mukherjee is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in Telugu films, along with a few Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali films. She is best known for Sekhar Kammula’s Anand (2004), which won her the Nandi Award for Best Actress, and for Godavari (2006) and Gamyam (2008).
She was born on 4 March 1984 and brought up in Kolkata, according to Wikipedia; Wikidata gives the same date, taken from Wikipedia. She studied English literature at Loreto College in Kolkata, began a hotel management course in New Delhi and left it to study theatre in Mumbai.
Career
Her first film was Revathi’s Hindi drama Phir Milenge (2004), in which she played a radio jockey. Around the same time Sekhar Kammula cast her in Anand (2004) after seeing her in an advertisement (Idlebrain.com interview). The film won six Nandi Awards, including Best Actress for her (Idlebrain.com).
She worked with Kammula again in Godavari (2006), opposite Sumanth, and made a cameo appearance in his Happy Days (2007). Krish’s Gamyam (2008) was praised by critics and remade in Tamil and Kannada. Her other Telugu films on our records include Style (2006), Classmates (2007), Pellaindi Kaani (2007), a cameo in Jalsa (2008), Vamsi’s musical Gopi Gopika Godavari (2009), Nagavalli (2010) and Virodhi (2011).
Outside Telugu, she made her Tamil debut in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006), in a cameo, played Pemenna in Shaji N. Karun’s Malayalam film Kutty Srank (2009), and debuted in Bengali in Aparajita Tumi (2012). She then appeared in K. Raghavendra Rao’s devotional film Shirdi Sai (2012) with Nagarjuna, in Jagadguru Adi Shankara (2013) and in Krishna Vamsi’s Govindudu Andarivadele (2014). Later work includes the Tamil film Iraivi (2016) and the Malayalam film Pulimurugan (2016) opposite Mohanlal.
Awards
- Nandi Award for Best Actress for Anand, 2004 (Wikipedia winners list).
Upcoming films
No upcoming film of hers is on our records. New films appear on upcoming Telugu movies as they are recorded.
Sources: Wikipedia and the references it cites (linked above), Wikidata, and Tollywood Desk’s film records.
Career on file
Kamalinee Mukherjee appears in 16 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2004 to 2014. The earliest of them is Anand (2004), and the most recent release is Govindudu Andarivadele (2014). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Govindudu Andarivadele (2014), Jalsa (2008) and Shirdi Sai (2012). Other recent releases on file are Jagadguru Adi Shankara (2013), Virodhi (2011) and Nagavalli (2010).
Brahmanandam is the most frequent co-star, sharing four films with Kamalinee Mukherjee, followed by Srikanth (3) and Akkineni Nagarjuna (2). Among directors, Sekhar Kammula cast Kamalinee Mukherjee most often, in three films. K. M. Radha Krishnan and Sai Karthik each scored two of them, more than any other music director. Amigos Creations produced two of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 14 different directors, 17 music directors and 59 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 12 of them; they average 153 minutes, and the longest is Anand at 180 minutes. By decade the list splits into 2000s (10) and 2010s (6).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.