Keerthi Reddy

Keerthi Reddy is an Indian former actress who appeared primarily in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi language films. Her notable work includes Tholi Prema (1998), Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat (2001) and Arjun (2004). She has received a Filmfare Award for her performance in the film Arjun (2004).

Keerthi Reddy was born to an interior designer and dress designer mother. Her grandfather is Keshpally Ganga Reddy, Ex-Member of Parliament from Nizamabad in Telangana. She was raised in Bengaluru. She did her schooling in Jiddu Krishnamurthy's The Valley School near Kanakapura, Bengaluru.[citation needed ] She was trained in Bharatanatyam for eight years. She briefly studied at St. Joseph's Public School in Hyderabad. She attended Ryerson University for higher education[citation needed ] in Toronto, Canada.

In 1996, Keerthi Reddy made her film debut in a comedy thriller Gunshot, opposite Ali directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy. In 1998, Keerthi was cast as female lead opposite Pawan Kalyan in Tholi Prema which was a blockbuster. In 2000, Keerthi Reddy made her Bollywood debut in Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa opposite Abhishek Bachchan. Her next film Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat featured her as Isha Nair opposite the debutant Arjun Rampal. Her role was that of a girl who was loved by three men Gaurav Saxena, Yash Sabarwal (Suniel Shetty) and Taj Bharadwaj (Aftab Shivdasani). In 2002, Keerthi did a supporting role in Badhaai Ho Badhaai opposite Anil Kapoor. After these films, she stopped acting in Hindi films.

In 2002, Keerthi Reddy acted in Super Star, her only Kannada film. In 2004 Keerthi Reddy acted in the Telugu film Arjun as Mahesh Babu's sister, a role for which she received the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in Telugu.

Keerthi married actor Sumanth, Nagarjuna Akkineni's nephew and the grandson of Akkineni Nageswara Rao, in 2004. They divorced in 2006. She later remarried and now lives in Singapore. The couple has two children.