Prema (Kannada actress)

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Prema
Prema in the 1997 Kannada film Ellaranthalla Nanna Ganda
Born	Neravanda Chetticha Prema Bangalore, India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–2009 2017–present
Relatives	Neravanda Aiyappa (brother)

Neravanda Chetticha Prema is an Indian actress known for her work predominantly in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and a few Tamil language films. She ruled Kannada industry in the 90s and early 2000s and she has appeared in many commercially successful feature films. She was a leading Kannada actress at the turn of the century and has received the Karnataka State Film Award and Filmfare Best Actress awards for her performances in Kannada films. She has featured in Om and Yajamana, which are the two major blockbuster and highest-grossing films of their time in Kannada cinema. After an eight-year hiatus, she returned to films with Upendra Matte Baa in 2017.^[1]