Birth Name: Genelia De Souza
Nicknames: Geenu / Cheenu
Date of Birth: 5 August 1987, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Place of Birth: Mumbai
Height: 5′ 6½” (1.69 m)
Alternate Names: Genilia / Harini
Parents: Jeaneate and Neil
Mother Tongue: Konkani
Genelia is all sugar and spice, purring in content, as her ‘meow’ quotient in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na has made her the cynosure of all eyes.
Genelia is all sugar and spice, purring in content, as her ‘meow’ quotient in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na has made her the cynosure of all eyes.
Genelia D’Souza, also known as Harini to close friends, was born on 5 August 1987 in England to a Mangalore Catholic family. Her parents are Jennifer and Neil. She has an older brother. She grew up in Mumbai.
Her school days were spent in Apostolic Carmel High School, Mumbai while she spent her college days at St.Andrews College to pursue a degree in management studies. She is known to be a state level athlete and a national level player.Her claim to fame started with commercials like Parker pen with Amitabh Bacchan and Fair & Lovely with Krishnamachari Srikanth.
She is supposed to be dating Riteish Deshmukh.
In 2003, she started her career with three movies – the Hindi movie Tujhe Meri Kasam; the Tamil movie Boys; the Telugu movie Satyam. She worked opposite Ritesh Deshmukh in Tujhe Meri Kasam, which was a remake of Telugu movie, Nuvve Kavali, and saw an average response. Boys, on the other hand, was a hit, as was Satyam.
She built up her popularity in the South with Telugu movies like Samba (2004), Subash Chandra Bose (2005), and Sye (2005). She was recognized for her performance in Bommarillu in 2006 with several awards. The movie was remade successfully in Tamil as Santosh Subramaniam (2008).
The year 2008 saw her trying to pave her way into Bollywood in Priyadarshan’s Mere Baap Pehle Aap and the year’s hit Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. The movie which was the debut of Aamir Khan’s nephew Imran Khan received a lot of publicity and her role as the unrestrained Meow shined through.Following this success, Genelia was seen in Sasirekha Parinayam (2009), Life Partner (2009), and Katha (2009).
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