Pooja Umashankar

Pooja Umashankar

Birthday: 1981-06-25

Place of Birth: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Biography: Pooja Gauthami Umashankar, mononymously known as Pooja is an Indian-Sri Lankan actress, who has primarily appeared in Tamil films as well as Sinhala, Malayalam and amateur films. Following a series of successful commercial ventures, Bala's Naan Kadavul saw Pooja's performance as a blind beggar praised by the critics, securing major awards, including the South Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She simultaneously worked in Sinhala cinema and was part of several successful films like Anjalika (2006), Asai Man Piyabanna (2007), Suwanda Denuna Jeewithe (2010) and Kusa Pabha (2012), thus establishing herself as one of the leading actresses of Sinhala cinema.

Movies

Pattiyal
Pattiyal

Two contract killers, who wish to leave the crime world, are betrayed by their boss....

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Jithan
Jithan

A girl breaks up with her lover after a rich guy proposes marriage to her. The lover gets the power ...

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Attagasam
Attagasam

Twin brothers Jeeva and Guru are separated in childhood by tragedy and fate. When their paths cross ...

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Naan Kadavul
Naan Kadavul

This surreal Tamil entry tells the story of Rudran, who is abandoned as a child in Kasi and grows up...

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Oram Po
Oram Po

Chandru (Arya) and Bigilu (Lal) are close friends. Chandru is an expert auto driver & racer while Bi...

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Pori
Pori

Hari (Jeeva) is an unemployed youth who runs a pavement book shop in Tripiclane area. His father (Na...

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Thambi
Thambi

A man cannot tolerate injustice and opposes it in any form; this earns him the wrath of a local goon...

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TN 07 AL 4777
TN 07 AL 4777

The film's story revolves around a taxi driver and the son of a rich businessman, in which the two c...

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Asai Man Piyabanna
Asai Man Piyabanna

Ranmalee, a village girl talented in both music and dancing meets the son (Praveen) of a businessman...

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Orange
Orange

A young man falls in love with a girl but has to keep lying to make her happy. Unable to continue, h...

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Ullam Ketkumae
Ullam Ketkumae

A friendship between college friends Shyam, Priya and Pooja suffers when Shyam confesses his love fo...

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Drohi
Drohi

Samy and Karuna grow up together in the slums of Royapuram. One day, they witness the brutal murder ...

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Jay Jay
Jay Jay

Jagan and Jamuna spend all day chatting on their first meeting. Jamuna puts down her details on a 10...

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Vidiyum Munn
Vidiyum Munn

Greed, lust and anger collide and threaten to rip apart the lives of two disparate women on the run ...

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Sihinayaki Adare (Love is a Dream)
Sihinayaki Adare (Love is a Dream)

The complicated love story of a man and a woman, whose pasts make it harder for them to love one ano...

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Kadavul Paathi Mirugam Paathi
Kadavul Paathi Mirugam Paathi

Jai and Neha, eloping to Hyderabad to get married, offer lift to a stranger on the highway not reali...

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Thagapansamy
Thagapansamy

The film begins with Kadhirvel (Prashanth), a do-gooder going all out to get water for his village. ...

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Paththini
Paththini

Kannagi (Pooja) born in the Chola kingdom, one of the three kingdoms in South India around 1,500 yea...

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Sarigama
Sarigama

A woman leaves a convent to become a governess to the children of a Army officer widower....

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Panthayakozhi
Panthayakozhi

Nandagopal lives with his mother and mute sister Maya at the mercy of his uncle. They come to know t...

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Kusa Pabha
Kusa Pabha

The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba....

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Anjalika
Anjalika

A young man named Thivanka returns home to Sri Lanka from England to fall in love with a village gir...

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Friends
Friends

Yahaluvo (Friends) (යහළුවෝ), also known as Yahaluwo, is a 2007 Sinhala romantic drama film. It was d...

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