Shraddha Srinath


Shraddha Srinath is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films. She gained wide acclaim for her role in the Kannada psychological thriller U Turn for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and also for her performances in Jersey, Urvi, Vikram Vedha, Nerkonda Paarvai and Operation Alamelamma. For the latter, she won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada award. She won the Zee Cine Award Telugu 2020 as the Best find of the year - female.

Early life and education

Shraddha was born in the Command Hospital in the town of Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir. Her father was an officer in the Kumaon Regiment of the Indian Army and her mother was a school teacher. Her family hails from Karnataka, and their mother tongue is Kannada. She was raised all over India and lived in the towns of Suratgarh, Bhopal, Dharchula Belgaum, Silchar, and Secunderabad. After graduating from 12th from Army School Secunderabad, she moved to Bangalore to study Law at the Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies.

Career

After graduating from law school, she started working as a real estate lawyer with a Bangalore-based real estate company and then moved to a French retail company as the real estate legal advisor. However, along with her full-time corporate job, she continued to act in plays and also appeared in several advertisements.
She was called to play the second female lead in the Malayalam film called Kohinoor, directed by Vinay Govind, which released in September 2015. Her Kannada debut happened in May 2016 with U Turn which was directed by Pawan Kumar which premiered at the New York Indian Film Festival and then subsequently released in India and worldwide. Srinath received critical acclaim for this movie, and received the coveted Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada.
Shraddha's 2017 releases are Urvi, directed by B. S. Pradeep Varma and Operation Alamelamma, directed by Simple Suni. She debuted in the Tamil industry by doing a small role in Mani Ratnam's Katru Veliydai. Later she played the female lead in R. Kannan's movie Ivan Thanthiran opposite Gautham Karthik and R. J. Balaji in the lead. She even played the female lead in Pushkar Gayatri's movie Vikram Vedha opposite Madhavan and Vijay Sethupathi. In Richie she plays the lead opposite Nivin Pauly, directed by Gautham Ramachandran.
After acting in movies like U Turn, Operation Almelamma, Richie and Vikram Vedha, she started to get more offers in South Cinema Industry. She had appeared only in a song of The Villain, along with Shiva Rajkumar.
In 2019, her first release was her Bollywood debut with Ali Fazal in Milan Talkies,
which is directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. After Milan Talkies, her next release of the year is her Telugu debut opposite Nani in the sports drama Jersey. The Times of India newspaper wrote that "Shraddha Srinath makes an impressive Telugu debut, as a woman who’s head-over-heels in love with her husband, but is still not someone who will agree to put up with his carelessness." Her next release of the year is her Tamil movie K-13, where she is paired opposite Arulnithi. Her next release of the year is her Kannada movie Rustum, where she is paired opposite Shiva Rajkumar. Her next after Rustum is Nerkonda Paarvai, the Tamil remake of Hindi movie Pink, with Ajith. Her next release of the year is Jodi, where she is paired opposite Aadi Saikumar.

Upcoming projects

As of March 2020, in Kannada she was shooting for Godhra with Ninasam Satish and Rishabh Shetty's Rudraprayaga opposite Anath Nag and she also shooting for Anup Bhandari's Phantom where she is paired opposite Sudeep. In Tamil she was shooting Chakra, where she will be paired alongside Vishal and Maara opposite Madhavan. In Telugu she has completed shooting for Ravikanth Perepu's Krishna and His Leela, which was produced by Rana Daggubati, where she is paired opposite Sidhu Jonnalagadda and also stars Seerat Kapoor and Shalini Vadnikatti in the parallel lead roles.

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotes
2015KohinoorNancyMalayalam
2016U TurnRachanaKannada
2016Mungaru Male 2DoctorKannadaCameo appearance
2017UrviSuzieKannada
2017Kaatru VeliyidaiGirija KapoorTamilCameo appearance
2017Ivan ThanthiranAshaTamil
2017Vikram VedhaPriyaTamil
2017RichieMeghaTamil
2017Operation AlamelammaAnanyaKannada
2018The VillainHerselfKannadaSpecial appearance
2019Milan TalkiesMaithili/ Janat KumariHindi
2019JerseySarahTelugu
2019K- 13MalarvizhiTamil
2019RustumAnjana a.k.a AnjuKannada
2019Nerkonda PaarvaiMeera KrishnanTamil
2019JodiKanchana MalaTelugu
2020Krishna and His LeelaSathyaTeluguNetflix film
2020GodhraNityaKannadaPost-production
2020ChakraACP GayathriTamilPost-production
2021RudraprayagaKannadaFilming
2021Maara TamilPost-production
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Awards and nominations

YearFilmAwardCategoryResult
2017U -Turn64th Filmfare Awards SouthBest Actress – Kannada
2017U -Turn6th South Indian International Movie AwardsBest Actress – Kannada
2017U -Turn2nd IIFA UtsavamBest Actress – Kannada
2018Operation Alamelamma65th Filmfare Awards SouthBest Actress – Kannada
2018Operation Alamelamma65th Filmfare Awards SouthCritics Award for Best Actor – Kannada
2018Operation AlamelammaLove Lavike Readers Chioce AwardBest Actress
2018Operation AlamelammaTSR – TV9 National Film AwardsBest Actress – Kannada
2018Operation Alamelamma7th South Indian International Movie AwardsBest Actress – Kannada
2018Vikram Vedha7th South Indian International Movie AwardsBest Debutant Actress – Tamil
2018Vikram Vedha10th Vijay AwardsBest Actress
2020RustumFilmibeat AwardsBest Actress - Kannada
2020Nerkonda PaarvaiAnanda Vikatan Cinema AwardsBest Actress
2020Nerkonda PaarvaiJFW Movie AwardsBest Actress
2020Nerkonda PaarvaiCritics' Choice Film AwardsBest Actor Female – Tamil
2020JerseyCritics' Choice Film AwardsBest Actor Female – Telugu
2020JerseyZee Cine Awards TeluguBest Actress
2020JerseyZee Cine Awards TeluguBest Find of the Year - Female