Bhama
Rekhitha R. Kurup, better known by her stage name Bhamaa, is an Indian film actress who has mainly appears in Malayalam and Kannada language films. She made her cinematic debut in 2007 with the Malayalam film Nivedyam, directed by A. K. Lohithadas.
Bhama is the youngest daughter of Rajendra Kurup & Shylaja. She has two elder sisters, Reshmitha R Kurup and Renjitha R Kurup. She did her schooling at St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School and at Infant Jesus Bethany Covent Girl’s Higher Secondary School, Manarcad.[citation needed] She pursued bachelors in Sociology by correspondence course.[1]
Bhama is married to Arun Jagadish, a businessman from Chennithala, whose family is settled in Kochi, Kerala.[2] The couple got married in January 2020. On 2021 March she gave birth to a baby girl.
Before her entry into the film industry, she was the host of a show on Surya TV titled Thaali. She has also acted in a Christian devotional album. Director Lohithadas, selected her as the lead heroine, in Nivedyam, her first movie. Her second film was Hareendran Oru Nishkalankan directed by Vinayan, in which she was cast opposite Manikuttan. She paired with Vineeth Sreenivasan in Cycle directed by Johny Antony.
Bhama said that until 2011, she was getting the same kind of roles in Malayalam. She started taking up Kannada film offers, after which she started getting fresh and interesting characters in Malayalam.[3] She acted in Sohanlal’s Kadhaveedu, where she played the heroine in M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s segment and her character was that of a modern girl, a media person, who is smart and energetic. She had a small but significant role in Vinod Vijayan’s segment of D Company, Day of Judgement, featuring Fahadh Faasil where she played a psycho and wore no make-up.[4]
In 2014, she had five Malayalam releases. She played a Christian housewife in Rakesh Gopan’s 100 Degree Celsius and was seen as a 15-year-old mother in Vinod Mankara’s Ottamandaram.[5] In her only non-Malayalam release of the year, the Tamil-English biographical film Ramanujan based on the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, she played the role of Janakiammal, Ramanujan’s wife.
