The girl who created waves among the adolescents of South India is celebrating her birthday today. Introduced in the film 'Ullathai Allithaa' by director Sundar C. to the Tamil film world, she became a star overnight playing a youthful girl in love. It was a slapstick comedy that also featured Karthik, Goundamani and Manivannan.

She maintained the dream girl status for well over a decade often playing a love sick and demure girl. Rambha hails from Vijayawada and was first introduced by Malayalam director Hariharan in the super hit Malayalam film 'Sargam' in 1992.

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She stormed into the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi film industries as well and was quick to be identified as the girl-next-door. Rambha filled the void that Divya Bharathi had created with her untimely death. Rambha's resembance to Divya Bharathi landed her with many roles.

She has an impressive list of co-stars in the form of Chiranjeevi, Rajnikanth, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Sunil Shetty and Govinda. She also worked with Kamal Haasan in a comedy flick.

Rambha turned producer briefly with the film 'Three Roses' in Tamil starring Jyothika, Laila and herself. The film was inspired by the hollywood flick Charlies Angels.

Her performance in the 2007 film in Malayalam titled 'Paayum Puli' was greatly appreciated and won her rave reviews. Right now, word has it that she is concentrating in Bhojpuri films.

Indiaglitz wishes Rambha a very happy birthday!