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      • Umashree (born 10 May 1957) is an Indian actress and politician. She appears in Kannada cinema, particularly in character roles and supporting roles. She received the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Gulabi in the 2008 Kannada film Gulabi Talkies.
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  2. Gulabi Talkies is a 2008 Indian Kannada language drama film by acclaimed Indian director Girish Kasaravalli. The film stars Umashree in the title role, M. D. Pallavi and K. G. Krishna Murthy. It is based on a short story by the same name by Kannada writer Vaidehi .

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    Umashree (born 10 May 1957) is an Indian actress and politician. She appears in Kannada cinema, particularly in character roles and supporting roles. She received the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Gulabi in the 2008 Kannada film Gulabi Talkies. [1]

  4. Oct 15, 2009 · Veteran theatre and film actress Umashree won the National Award for her portrayal of Gulabi in Girish Kasaravalli's award-winning Kannada film Gulabi Talkies. She's also known for taking up the cause of weak and exploited women in society. G S Kumar spoke to Umashree: How challenging was your role in Gulabi Talkies? Not particularly.

  5. Aug 28, 2020 · Gulabi (Umashree, who won a National Award for her role), is a Muslim woman and midwife of repute living in a predominantly Hindu fishing village. She boasts that she takes care...

  6. The Queen of ‘Gulabi Talkies’, playing a midwife in her 50’s, Umashree made a casting coup, bringing alive a woman whose sexuality was as central as her character. At a time when her contemporaries, made irrelevant by age and lack of roles, were absent from the silver screen, Umashree won her first National Award for Best Actress (2008).

  7. Story of a village midwife. Story Summary. The film is set in the late 1990s among the fishing communities around Kundapura, in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. The impulsive midwife Gulabi (Umashree) is the protagonist, whose one passion is the cinema.

  8. Jul 14, 2021 · 'Gulabi Talkies' marked their first collaboration between Kasaravalli and Umashree which led to the latter winning her very first and only (to date) National Award for the Best Actress.