Archana
Birthday: Born in 1980-10-08 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Deathday: Alive
Veda Archana Sastry is an Indian film actress, known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema, and for a few Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. Debuting as Veda in Tapana, she subsequently changed her stage name to Archana, by which she was more popularly known. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Nenu, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and Aa Dinagalu.
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బిగ్ బాస్
Character: Herself - Contestant
The Telugu version of the reality show where a number of contestants (known as "housemates") live in a purpose-built house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates for eviction, and the housemates who receive the most nominations faces a public vote out....
Bad Trip
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A shared cab ride presents a group of people the opportunity to get rich quickly. What seems like an easy job turns into a web of nightmares for the gang....
Movie Credits
Suryam
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A man sets out to fulfil his mother's last wish after serving his term in a juvenile detention center for a murder he did not commit....
Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana
Character: Lalitha 'Lalli'
Siri and Sriram fall in love with each other and plan to get married. However, his mother disapproves of their relationship....
Pournami
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A dancer trains for an event where she has to perform a special dance in Lord Shiva's temple. But when she suddenly disappears, her younger sister Chandrakala decides to learn the dance....
Yamadonga
Character: Menaka
Raja, an orphaned thief, dies while helping a gang in kidnapping a wealthy heiress, Mahi, in exchange of money. He then lands in Yamlok and fights with Yama, the god of death, to get his life back....
Minchagi Nee Baralu
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A scientist leaves behind his wealth, including a time machine to an engineering student. Through this machine, he ends up conversing with a student living in 1999 and falls in love with her. Will he manage to trace her and have a happily ever after story?...
Veede
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Yedu is a responsible citizen of Bobbarlanka, a place where everything is in place but for the polluted water that is coming from the factory. Everybody in the village complained, but of no use. Then the village head forms a team of three comprising of Yedu, Manga and her grandmother and sends them to Hyderabad so that they could meet the minister and express the villages problem to him. Can they change things?...
Seetha & Carole
Character: Seetha
This is the story of a tug of war between two women, one Canadian, the other East Indian, over the same child. A Canadian woman, who has suffered two miscarriages, decides to adopt a child in India. The child she selects was sold to an adoption agency by his impoverished father who hopes adopted parents will give the child a better life in America. The problem is that the child's mother knows nothing of the plan. When she does find out, she wants the child back....
6 candles
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Ram and Lizzy lead a happy life with their son Gautham. On the boy's sixth birthday, they take him out to the beach where he goes missing. Ram begins a long hunt for his son, which takes him all over the country and drives him to the depths of despair. Will there be redemption in the end?...
Story of Things
Character: Britto's Mother
Human emotions like greed, fear, anger, loneliness, love and guilt can have a tremendous effect on one's life. This anthology series of five stories explores these emotions, blurring the lines between the real and the surreal....
10th Class Diaries
Character: Soumya
Somayaji, a professionally successful man & CEO of a reputed organization has feeling of emptiness & realizes that his life is not a satisfactory. Based on his psychiatrist 's advice t he decides to return India in search of his lost life and childhood love memories....
Lanka
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Sravan, a captain of the naval wing, is sent to Sri Lanka to protect the Indian prime minister. Soon, Sravan has an affair with a woman who turns out to be from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam....
Ponge Ezhu Manohara
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Ponge Ezhu Manohara is a 2015 Tamil comedy drama film written and directed by Ramesh Rangaswamy. Irfan play as the hero and the new-find Arundhati Nair as heroine....
Kulu Manali
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Three couples go honeymooning to a scenic place - away from city life. Nothing can go wrong, except may be a voyeur cab driver, a suspicious hotel manager, an inquisitive inspector, and everybody's dark pasts....
Aa Dinagalu
Character: Mallika
Chetan loves Mallika but his father hires an underworld don, Kotwal, to break their relationship. Irked by his father's actions, Chetan approaches Kotwal's rival, Jayaraj, to defeat him....
Sri Ramadasu
Character: Goddess Seetha
Gopanna (Nagarjuna) is a happy-go-lucky guy and marries his childhood love Kamala (Sneha). He secures the job of Tahasildar for Husnabad on the recommendation of his maternal uncles Akkanna and Madanna. He gets inspired by the devotion shown by Dammakka towards Lord Rama and the way she protects the idols of Rama, Seeta and Lakshmana. He becomes a great devotee of Lord Rama over night. He vows that he would stay in open place just like statue of Lord Rama till a temple is constructed. He collect...
Kamalatho Naa Prayanam
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It is about a woman who is striving to get out of her job as a sex worker and the betrayal she faced from the person she loved after believing rumors about her private life....
Vegam
Character: Archana
A housewife is kidnapped by home invaders, but manages to call a stranger. What follows is the struggle for survival....
The Final Exit
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Fashion photographer, Vidyut Sehgal has several distractions in his life, namely drugs, alcohol and women. He is also deeply troubled by his dreams in which he sees a mysterious woman posing around a strange shrine. Soon, the woman enters his bedroom and an entity seems to be sending him videos that seem to call him out to the place he has been seeing. His friend suggests he see a doctor, who advises him to abstain from substances. But when none of it helps, he decides to follow a marker sent to...
Mandya Star
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Mandya Star is a Kannada movie released on 17 June, 2016. The movie is directed by Parva MRK and featured Lokesh, Archana and Ranjitha as lead characters. Other popular actors who were roped in for Mandya Star are Jai Jagadish, Om Prakash Rao, Padmaja Rao and Muthappa Rai....
Kanal
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The story is set against the backdrop of global phenomenon "recession" in United Arab Emirates, a time when economic collapse were being felt. The story revolves around a thriller - revenge plot that has resulted as an aftereffect of recession. The story explores the basic nature of cruelty and love in human nature through the lives of four individuals John David (Mohanlal), Anantharaman (Anoop Menon), Raghuchandran (Pratap Pothan) and Kuruvila Mathew (Atul Kulkarni)....
Mushkil
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Four girlfriends go on a trip to Greece and put up in a guest house that is home to a ghost. With no one to turn to and nowhere to go, how do the girls manage to flee the country unharmed?...
Jessie
Character: Sameera
Set in an abandoned house, the film follows a team of professional ghost hunters trying to conduct a paranormal investigation to unveil the mystery of two sisters, Jessie and Amy, where Amy shows unusual mental and physical behaviour....
Vajra Kavachadhara Govinda
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Govind (Sapthagiri) is a petty thief who seems to be down on luck and beaten down by life. What happens when he finds the opportunity to help someone find treasure?...
Irumbu Manithan
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An action film directed by Disney, starring Santhosh Prathap, Ganja Karuppu and Anitha Sampath in the lead roles....
Pandurangadu
Character: Rukmini
Pandurangadu is a 2008 Telugu film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film stars Balakrishna, Sneha Prasanna, Tabu and Suhasini Mani Ratnam in lead roles....
Annapurnamma Gari Manavadu
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Annapurna's son is Pranay who married Amrutha but was killed by Amrutha's father due to Pranay's caste. After 12 years, Amrutha also dies of depression and sends her son to Pranay's mother, Annapurna....
Khaleja
Character: GK's PA
A village is struck by an unknown disease, decimating its population. The village priest prophecies that god's avatar will save them. Siddha goes searching and finds this supernatural potential in Seeta Rama Raju, a cab driver....
Nenu
Character: Divya
A genius-yet-introverted orphan, raised by a church priest, is sent to college where he turns out to be a social outcast. Although he is shunned by the majority of the other students, one girl shows him kindness and befriends him. Things take a turn when he falls for her, and she in turn falls for another classmate....