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Abitha is an Indian film and television actress who appears in Tamil language films and teleserials. She appeared in notable productions including Sethu alongside Vikram. She is famous for her role as Archana in the teleserial Thirumathi Selvam, which aired from 2007 to 2013 in Sun TV starring opposite Sanjeev. She was the winner of Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal for Best Actress twice by Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal for Thirumathi Selvam in the years 2010 and 2012.[1]

Abitha
Born	Jenila (1985-04-16) 16 April 1985 (age 37)[citation needed]
Other names	Janeesha
Occupation	Film actress
Spouse	Sunil
Children	2

Career

As a teenager, Abitha used to go and see the television serial, Nancy starring Sanghavi, being filmed near her house in Thiruvottiyur. The director of that serial recognised her and spoke to her parents, roping her in to play the heroine's sister in their next TV serial Criminal.[2] After doing a couple of serials, she did a low-budget film titled Golmaal as the sister of the lead lady and then B-Grade film titled Devadasi in Malayalam. At that time, director Bala roped her in for a leading role in Sethu alongside Vikram, which she signed after Keerthi Reddy and Rajshri had dropped out.[3] Bala renamed her Abitha from her original name of Jenila for the film, after the character she was portraying. The film opened in December 1999 at a single noon show at a suburban theatre but built up through word-of-mouth publicity and ran for over one hundred days at several cinema halls across Chennai, becoming a critical and commercial success. Sethu won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and secured wins in the Best Film category at the Filmfare Awards and the Cinema Express Awards, while Abitha won critical acclaim for her role of a timil Brahmin girl.[4] After Sethu's success, Abitha was flooded with offers but chose to complete her studies and finish her PG in Sociology from Annamalai University. She revealed that by the time she decided to come back she had lost her contacts in the industry and was thereafter seen in only a couple of insignificant projects.[5]

She appeared alongside veteran actor Ramarajan in Seerivarum Kaalai before starring in Poove Pen Poove alongside newcomer Ishaq Husseini. After the failure of those films she played the role of Arjun's sister in Arasatchi. Other films in the period, such as Pirantha Naal with Prakash Raj, Kashmir with Abhinay and Kandhavel with Murali were not completed and indefinitely shelved.[6][7][8] In 2005, she got another breakthrough and signed on to play the lead role in Kannamma scripted by Karunanidhi, but to do so she unceremoniously opted out of another film titled Ullakadathal. Subsequently, the producers of that film complained and got her banned by the Producer's Council, leaving her out of both films.[9][10] Later that year she featured in Unarchigal alongside Abbas and Kunal.[11] Her next film was Suyetchai MLA, which had a delayed release in 2006, and featured her opposite Sathyaraj and she was last seen in Nam Naadu as the wife of Saranraj.

Abitha made her small screen debut as the main lead actress in Thirumathi Selvam in 2007 in which she starred opposite Sanjeev. The show made them establish as one of the most celebrated pair of small screen and made them enjoy immense popularity among Tamil audience for their characters Selvam and Archana in the show.^{[citation needed]} The show was a Superhit ruling the Tamil small screen for 4 and half years from 2008 to 2013. Abitha was selected the best actress of Sun TV in the first two editions of Sun Kudumbam awards held in the years 2010 and 2012 for her performance as Archana in the show. She also starred in the low profile serial Thangamana Purushan. She got married in 2009 and continued to work in serials following her marriage.[12]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1997	Ettupatti Rasa	Ponrasu's daughter	Tamil
1998	Golmaal	Reshma
1997	Masmaram	Jasmine	Malayalam
1999	Devadasi		Malayalam
	Sethu	Abithakuchalambal (Abitha)	Tamil	Nominated- Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Actress
2001	Seerivarum Kaalai	Kamakshi
	Poove Pen Poove
2002	Puthiya Alai
2004	Arasatchi	Shwetha Ashok Mehta
	Aagodella Olledakke		Kannada
2005	Unarchigal	Amrutha	Tamil
2006	Suyetchai MLA	Lakshmi
2007	Nam Naadu	Sathya's wife
2017	En Kadhal Devathai
TBA	Thee Ivan			Filming[13]

Television

Year	Film	Role	Channel	Language
1997	Criminal		Doordarshan	Tamil
2002	Varam	Swarna	Sun TV
2003	Kungumam
2003–2005	Priyanaka		ETV	Telugu
2005	Kadamattathu Kathanar	Unnimaya	Asianet	Malayalam
2006–2007	Raja Rajeshwari	Raja Rajeshwari	Sun TV	Tamil
2006–2007	Sorgam	Surya
2007–2013	Thirumathi Selvam	Archana
2008–2010	Thangamana Purushan	Raasi	Kalaignar TV
2008	Manikoondu	Special Appearance	Sun TV
2009	Simran Thirai	Shalini	Jaya TV
2009–2010	Adhiparasakthi	Renuka Devi	Raj TV
2011	Thendral	Archana	Sun TV
2013–2014	Ponnunjal	Nandhini Vishwa
	Muthaaram	Ranjini Murali
2019	Lakshmi Stores	Dr. Shyamala / Shanthi
2022–Present	Maari[14]	Deivanai	Zee Tamil
2022–Present	Super Mom Season 3	Contestant

References

External links

• Abitha at IMDb

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