A bright sunny morning?with thetweets and bird songs, nothing like a cup of aromatic coffee brewed for aperfect start of our day! [Well all the tea lovers can have ?tea? replaced forcoffee]. But Kamalinee Mukherjee makesit even lovelier for us with her debut Telugu film Anand in the year 2004, when the maker of the film Shekhar Kammulabrought this English graduate with Theatre Arts background, all the way fromKolkata. But she would have never thought that she would have a rollercoasterride in Tollywood.
- That iswhen Tollywood knew it has got a honey-eyed promising girl [Actually we justloved her coffee]. She should have definitely felt happy about the raveresponse Anand, her second film hasfetched her [The first was Phir Milenge, aHindi film made in 2004].
-Her theatrefoundation has helped her pass the muster in her first South Indian film. Sherather earned a pretty homely girl-next-door image with Anand wherein she plays ?Rupa?, a liberated woman with the entireplot gyrating around her.
People just loved her and the youthwere simply back after her chanting Charumathi I Love you??
With such a promising start, Meenakshi in 2005, her second filmopposite Rajeev Kanakala [just a popular supporting actor] was just wide offthe mark. She simply barked up the wrong tree and fell flat in the league ather very second step!
- It took acommercial flick like Style in 2006,the dance feature by choreographer turned director Raghavendra Lawrence to fallin the race. The movie has however pulled off with its star cast and off-streakdancing theme.
- Style has indeed heaved her out of thetrough, followed by VettaiyaaduVilaiyaadu [Raghavan in Telugu]in the same year, opposite a stalwart like Kamal Haasan- a home run for afledgling actor like her!
- Apart fromthe result of the film, Shekhar Kammula has again picked Kamalinee for hismusical romantic film Godavari (2006)with which her career nudged up gaining momentum. The character ?Seetha?, yetanother liberated and individualistic woman she has essayed in the film after Anand has gifted enough mileage makingher the front-runner!
- But she hasin a way overshot the mark with Classmates,a remake opposite Sumanth in the following year (2007) going after a cleanrole, completely failing to capitalize on the Godavari success.
- That was aso-so movie and she was back to square one! When her career was a snail?s walkwith films like Pellaindi kaani in2007, it was again Sekhar Kammula who came to her rescue with Happy Days by making her a teacher- themost loved ?Shreya mam?.
Once again she has done the magic!
- Followed bythe classic Gamyam in 2008, the?Janaki? character, yet another feather in her cap and there is Kamalineeshooting off into skies [Thanks to director Krish]! When she was riding high,her cameo in Jalsa, the same year gother nowhere in spite of being one of the biggest grossers of the year.
- Towards theend of the year, with a dud like BrahmanandamDrama Company, a Telugu remake of Hindi BhagamBhag, Kamalinee has apparently cut her own throat.
From that day to till date, anyoneshall be taken aback learning that there is no significant film except Gopi Gopika Godavari in 2009 (which isalso a so-so). Appearances in some big films like Nagavalli in 2010 and ShirdiSai in 2012 did her no good!
She is now finding her fortune inMollywood but if not a ctrl+Z, its better late than never to see the errors ofher ways and make a comeback!
