She also won two awards for being the best debutante actress of the year. Among these, Mukherjee won the Nandi Award for the Best Leading Actress. The film won six prestigious 2004 Nandi Awards bestowed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Mukherjee said that the role of an independent and modern woman, which was just like her own personality, appealed to her. After noticing her in an advertisement, Kammula selected her for the role. Īround the same time, Sekhar Kammula, a national award-winning director from the Telugu film industry, was in the process of casting for his next Telugu film, Anand. In the film, she plays a radio jockey, and the younger sibling to Shilpa Shetty's character. Though initially apprehensive about her entering into the acting profession, her parents were very supportive. Acting career Breakthrough Īfter a chance meeting, actor-director Revathi offered her a role in her second directorial venture, Phir Milenge, a film about AIDS. Īfter graduating with a degree in English literature from Loreto College in Kolkata, she began a hotel management course in New Delhi but left it to pursue a course in theatre in Mumbai. She also underwent several years of training in the Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. Besides theatre, she developed a love for reading, painting and writing. Incidentally, she always portrayed masculine characters in these plays.
Owing to her "love for being on the stage" since childhood, she acted in all sorts of amateur and professional stageplays while in school and college. She is the eldest of the three siblings in the family. Her father is a marine engineer and her mother is a jewellery designer. Kamalinee was born and brought up in Kolkata, India.
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