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Anu Hasan

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Anu Haasan
Born
Anuradha Chandrahasan

EducationBITS Pilani
Occupations
  • Actress
  • entrepreneur
  • presenter
  • writer
  • motivational speaker
FatherChandrahasan
RelativesSee Haasan family

Anu Haasan (born Anuradha Chandrahasan) is an Indian actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed Indira (1995) and has since appeared in many Tamil films, playing minor roles. She hosted the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu on the Tamil channel Vijay for three seasons.

Early life

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Anu did her schooling at St.Joseph's Anglo Indian Girls Higher Secondary School, Trichy and RSK Higher Secondary School and earned a MSc degree in Physics and Management from BITS Pilani (1988–1993).[1][2]

Career

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By 2000, she ventured into television,[3] acting first in the series Anbulla Snehgidhiye, which was adapted from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's award-winning novel Sister of My Heart.[1] She then starred in a number of TV series like Avan Aval Avargal, Ammaavukku Rendula Raagu and Vivahita (Malayalam), following which she turned anchor for the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu (named after herself), aired on STAR Vijay. The show, which she hosted for over four years, soon became very popular and made her ultimately a household name in Tamil Nadu.[2]

In 2014 she joined the Ask How India social movement and made a series of videos pertaining to social issues.[4]

In addition, Anu has worked as a dubbing artiste, lending her voice for many non-Tamil-speaking actresses, including Raveena Tandon, Preity Zinta and Geetu Mohandas.[5]

She writes a monthly column for Just for Women (India) magazine.

Author

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Books

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  • Sunny Side Up (2015) – Self Help English Book.[6]

Filmography

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Films

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Year Film Role Language Notes
1995 Indira Indira Tamil
2001 Aalavandhan/Abhay Vijay and Nandu's mother Tamil/Hindi Guest appearance, Bilingual film
2002 Run Siva's sister Tamil Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
2003 Nala Damayanthi Ammulu Tamil
Anjaneya Paramaguru's sister Tamil
2008 Akku Anu Tamil
Santhosh Subramaniam Tamil Guest appearance
Dhaam Dhoom Sarasu Tamil
2009 Sarvam Geetha Eashwar Tamil Guest appearance
Aadhavan Anu Tamil
Evaraina Epudaina Venkat's sister-in-law Telugu
2010 Maanja Velu Mrs. Bose Tamil
Irandu Mugam Sarveswaran's wife Tamil
Thottupaar Tamil
2011 Ko Herself Tamil Cameo appearance
Red Building Where The Sun Sets English
2012 Endukante... Premanta! Revathi Telugu
Dead Point Anwar's mother Arabic
Ullam Tamil
2013 Kunthapura Gowri Iyer Malayalam
2014 1: Nenokkadine Kalyani Telugu
2017 Valla Desam Anu Tamil
Is This Now Ms. Murray English
2018 Keni Suganthi Tamil
Chi La Sow Arjun's mother Telugu
2019 Vaakku Malayalam
2020 Putham Pudhu Kaalai Saras Tamil Amazon Prime film;
Segment Coffee, Anyone?
2023 Ustaad Gayathri Telugu
Bubblegum Ramya Telugu

Television

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Title Genre Role Language
Anbulla Snegithiyae TV series Tamil
Boom Boom Shakalaka TV series Tamil
Ammaavukku Rendula Raagu TV series Tamil
Vivahita TV series Malayalam
Koffee with Anu Talk show Host Tamil
Rekha IPS TV series Rekha Tamil
Tharkappu Kalai Theeratha TV series Appa Tamil
Anu Alavum Bayam Illai Reality show Host Tamil
En Samayal Araiyil Reality show Host Tamil
Kannadi Reality show Host Tamil
Golmaal Gouramma TV series Kannada
Hollyoaks Soap opera Kameela English
Cucumber Drama Shoona Merchandani English
My Jihad – Episodes 3 and 4 Drama Noor English
Ackley Bridge Soap opera English
EastEnders Soap opera Fatima Inzamam English
Emmerdale Soap opera English
Vaanga Pesalam Talk show Host Tamil
Bigg Boss 4 Reality show Special guest Tamil

Dubbing artist

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Sandpaper – The BITSAA Magazine". Sandpaper.bitsaa.org. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Metro Plus Madurai / Profiles : Spreading fragrance everywhere". The Hindu. 16 December 2006. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Interview with Anu Hasan : Goergo". Goergo.in. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. ^ Video Series for Ask How India
  5. ^ [1] Archived 7 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "SouthWord".
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