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Indiajanshaktiparty: Created page with '{{expansion}} '''Abhilasha''' is an Indian actress from Karnataka, who was active in the South Indian film industry, especially in the Malayalam cinema in the late 1980s. Known for erotic roles, she was a key figure in the Malayalam softcore film genre of her time and acted in about nearly 40 Malayalam films. She got a breakthrough with ''Adipapam'' (1988), which is regarded as the fir...'

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Created page with '{{expansion}} '''Abhilasha''' is an Indian actress from Karnataka, who was active in the South Indian film industry, especially in the Malayalam cinema in the late 1980s. Known for erotic roles, she was a key figure in the Malayalam softcore film genre of her time and acted in about nearly 40 Malayalam films. She got a breakthrough with ''Adipapam'' (1988), which is regarded as the fir...'

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{{Short description|Indian actress}}
{{Other uses|Abhilasha (disambiguation)}}
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'''Abhilasha''' is an Indian actress from [[Karnataka]], who was active in the [[Cinema of South India|South Indian film industry]], especially in the [[Malayalam cinema]] in the late 1980s. Known for her [[Sex in film|erotic]] roles, Abhilasha was a key figure in the [[Malayalam softcore pornography|Malayalam softcore films]] of her time.<ref>{{Cite web |date=Mar 9, 2009 |title=Former sleaze queen's smart move |url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/former-sleaze-queens-smart-move/articleshow/22198962.cms |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=Bangalore Mirror |language=en}}</ref> She acted in about nearly 40 Malayalam softcore films and is considered as one of the forerunners of this genre in Malayalam. She got her breakthrough with ''[[Adipapam]]'' (1988), which is regarded as the first successful Malayalam film with [[Softcore pornography|softcore]] [[nudity]]. Other than Malayalam, Abhilasha has also acted in around 80 films in [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]], [[Kannada cinema|Kannada]], [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] and [[Hindi cinema|Hindi]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mannanur |first=Sunil |date=2019-10-22 |title=ബി ഗ്രേഡ്‌ സിനിമകളും ചില കാണാക്കാഴ്ചകളും – Part 1 {{!}} PravasiExpress |url=https://www.pravasiexpress.com/behind-b-grade-movies-detailed-study-part-1/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Biography==
Abhilasha entered the film industry as a teenager in the 1987 [[Malayalam softcore pornography|Malayalam softcore]] film ''Jungle Boy''. In 1988, she got her breakthrough with ''[[Adipapam]]'' (Original sin) directed by [[P. Chandrakumar]]. In this Malayalam softcore film set against the backdrop of the [[Bible]], she also appeared nude.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sarkar |first=Urbee |date=2018-10-05 |title=[VoxSpace Selects] The Sex Quotient : Women In The South Indian Soft Porn Industry |url=https://www.voxspace.in/2018/10/05/south-indian-soft-porn-industry/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=VoxSpace |language=en-US}}</ref> Regarded as the first successful Malayalam softcore film with nudity, it was commercially successful at the box office and grossed ₹2.5 crore against a budget of ₹7.5 lakh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=rediff.com, Movies: Sleaze time, folks! |url=https://m.rediff.com/entertai/2001/jan/24mallu.htm |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=m.rediff.com}}</ref> The success of Adipapam made her one of the most sought B-grade actress of that time. Many soft porn films came in Malayalam in later years with Abhilasha as heroine.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mini |first=Darshana Sreedhar |date=2016 |title=The Spectral Duration of Malayalam Soft-porn: Disappearance, Desire, and Haunting |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0974927616667971 |journal=BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies |language=en |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=127–150 |doi=10.1177/0974927616667971 |issn=0974-9276 |via=}}</ref> P. Chandrakumar then directed six films such as ''Kalpana House'', ''Rathibhavam'' with Abhilasha as the heroine. Most of these films were successful at the box office. Abhilasha is believed to have quit acting in the early 1990s with her marriage to Kannada film director Kabiraj among the other reasons.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-03 |title=അഭിലാഷ - Abhilasha {{!}} M3DB.COM |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203061312/https://m3db.com/artists/53860 |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
{{incomplete list|date=October 2023}}
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* Jungle Boy (1987)<ref name=m3db>{{cite web |url=https://www.m3db.com/artists/53860 |title=അഭിലാഷ |publisher=m3db.com |date=2015-01-29 |accessdate=2017-12-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203061312/https://m3db.com/artists/53860 |archivedate=2019-12-03 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* Naranatattu (1988)<ref name=m3db/>
* [[Adipapam]] (1988)<ref name=m3db/>
* Kananasundari (1988)<ref name=msidb/>
* [[Layanam]] (1989)<ref name=m3db/>
* Kalpana House (1989)<ref name=m3db/>
* Rathibhavam (1989)<ref name=m3db/>
* Thadavarayile Rajakkanmar (1989)<ref name=m3db/>
* Chuvanna Kannugal (1990)<ref name=m3db/>
* Aalasyam (1990)<ref name=m3db/>
* Enquiry (1990)<ref name=m3db/>
* Rosa I love you (1990)<ref name=msidb>{{cite web |url=http://en.msidb.org/displayProfile.php?category=actors&artist=Abhilasha |title=Profile of Malayalam Actor Abhilasha |publisher=msidb.org |date= |accessdate=2017-12-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316082655/http://en.msidb.org/displayProfile.php?category=actors&artist=Abhilasha |archivedate=2016-03-16 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* Mahassar (1991)<ref name=msidb/>
* Vashyam (1991)<ref name=msidb/>
* Kaduva Thoma (1991)<ref name=msidb/>
* Rathachakram (1992)<ref name=msidb/>
{{colend}}

==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abhilasha}}
[[Category:Actresses in Malayalam cinema]]
[[Category:Actresses in Kannada cinema]]
[[Category:Actresses in Telugu cinema]]
[[Category:Actresses in Tamil cinema]]
[[Category:Actresses in Hindi cinema]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian actresses]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]

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