Thursday, August 5, 2010
Genelia D'souzas Trivia
Listed below are some of the trivias and facts about her which you probably didn’t know as of now or were not confirmed of.
She was born in India (Mumbai) and not UK as many websites claim. This has been clarified by Genelia time and time again.
She got her name from her parents – Jeanette D’Souza and Neil D’Souza.
Her nick name is Geenu.
She has a younger brother name Nigel Dsouza.
Genelia’s height is 5 feet 6 and a half inches (1.69 m).
Genelia shares her birthday with her favorite actress Kajol i.e. 5th August.
She can speak in Telugu, Tamil, Konkani, English and Hindi Languages and her Mother Tongue is Konkani.
She was very much interested in sports and scored lots of medals – see picture here.
She started working at age of 15 and earned Rs 10,000 for her first ad as her first salary.
She did her first ad with Amitabh Bachchan – Watch the Ad. Moreover, she got the role in Boys Movie due to this ad only.
She got selected in just 5 hours for the Parker Pen Ad in her first ever screen test. She gave the test at 5 in evening and got selected by 10 on the same night.
She entered the film industry (Tujhe Meri Kasam) after someone saw her at a wedding ceremony.
Her First movie Tujhe Meri Kasam was promoted widely by Ritesh’s father even using political power which created a huge controversy and embarassment too for father-son duo.
She entered 3 different film industries in the same year (2003)
Tujhe Meri Kasam – Hindi
BOYS – Tamil
Satyam – Telugu
She signed Satyam(telugu) before she was in movie BOYS.
Bomarillu was her career defining movie and got her filmfare award for best actress. This Movie made her jump into the top league down south and became a huge reason for her big comeback in Hindi Movies in 2008.
Her Voice in Bommarillu(Which many of us loved) was actually dubbed by a lady named Savitha Reddy.
She is now probably the only Actress in India whose one movie has been remade twice and she has been the leading lady in all three versions:
Bomarillu – Telugu – 2005
Santosh Subramanaiam – Tamil – 2008
It’s My Life – Hindi – 2011
Infact most of the cast, crew of Bomarillu worked again in Santosh Subramaniam including the actor’s father – Prakash Raj.
This movie also got remade and released in 2 more languages – Bengali(Bhalobasa Bhalobasa) and Oriya(Dream Girl) – These two have entirely different star cast.
So total, Bomarillu can be watched in 5 Language versions including Telugu which itself is a record for any Indian Actress.
Only 1 Movie of her is which still cannot be watched on DVD or VCD which is Tujhe Meri Kasam. And Neither this movie got telecasted on any TV Channel. Only source from where you can watch this movie are pirated copies of CAM Prints of this movie floating on internet. Though in 2007, Eros Came out with the DVD of this movie. We have written to Eros about re-releasing its DVD. Still waiting for response.
You cannot get subtitles for her following Movies since they never were released with the DVDs:
Naa Alludu
Sasirekha Parinayam
Dhee
She did a guest appearance in a song with 6 other leading South Actresses in a song from King (2008) Telugu Movie. Watch the song here. Get Wallpapers/Snaps.
She got appeared in Google Zeitgeist 2008 List for 10th most searched celebrity in India.
She was chosen for the only Kannada Movie of her career by a SMS Poll conducted by the Producers of the movie. Audience voted her as the favorite choice for the leading role in Satya in Love Movie ahead of Asin, Trisha and Ilena.
She now holds a Limca Record for her four hit movies in four languages in a gap of 1 year(2008): Satya in Love (Kannada), Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (Hindi), Ready (Telugu) and Santosh Subramaniam (Tamil).
According to a poll by Filmfare, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na was ranked highest when asked for which movie people watched more than once in theatres in 2008.
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