Raasi (actress)

Raasi, also known as Mantra,^[1] is a South Indian actress who has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada movies. She is credited as Raasi in Telugu, Kannada movies and Manthra in Tamil movies.

Film career

At the age of 6, she started acting as a child actress in the 1986 Telugu film, Mamatala Kovella (1986).

She also worked in the Hindi movies Rangbaaz (1996), Jodidar (1997) and Suraj (1997) with Mithun Chakraborty.

In Telegu, Raasi rose to fame with Subhakankshalu (1997). She was labelled "traditional" after Gokulamlo Seeta (1997). Later, hits like Snehithulu (1998), Pandaga (1998), Gilli Kajjalu (1998), Devullu (2000) and proved her mettle as an actress. When Raasi's career started taking a nosedive, she took to doing item numbers in Telugu films like Samudram (1999).^[2]

She debuted her first Tamil film Priyam. Following a prolific year 1996, she received offers including the Vijay-starrer Love Today (1997) and the Ajith Kumar-starrer Rettai Jadai Vayasu (1997). A further opportunity to work with T. Rajender in a project titled Ilam Kaadhalargal, however failed to materialise despite production work taking place.^[3] Some of her other movies in Tamil are Periya Idathu Mappillai (1997), Ganga Gowri (1997), Thedinen Vanthathu (1997), Kondattam (1998), Kalyana Galatta (1998), Pudhu Kudithanam (1999), Kannan Varuvaan (2000), Kuberan (2000) and Simmasanam (2000).

She played a negative character in Telegu movie Nijam (2003), which was directed by Teja.^[4]

After her marriage, she took a break from acting and made a comeback in character roles.^[5]

Filmography

References

External links

• Raasi at IMDb