Hamsa Nandini (born Poonam Bartake) is an Indian

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, and

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known for her works in

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. She has modeled for ''MaaStars'' magazine, Celebrity Cricket League, and Hyderabad International Fashion week 2011 and 2013. Her birth name is Poonam, under which she appeared in her first few films, but since there were too many people named Poonam in the film industry, director

Vamsy Vamsy (born Nallamilli Bavireddy) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, littérateur, composer, poet, producer, actor and cartoonist known for his works in Telugu cinema, and television. He got breakthrough with ''Sitaara'' (1984), which wo ...

rechristened her Hamsa Nandini. In 2015, she played the warrior princess Madanika in the Telugu historical '' Rudhramadevi''. She mainly appears in

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s in Telugu film industry.

Early and personal life

Hamsa Nandini was born and brought up in

Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...

. Later she moved to Mumbai to become a model . She has been in the modeling industry since 2002, and has modeled for MaaStars magazine, Celebrity Cricket League, Hyderabad International Fashion week 2011 & 2013, and various television commercials. She graduated in commerce and had enrolled in a PG (postgraduate) course in human resources in 2009. In 2021, Hamsa Nandini announced that she has been diagnosed with a Grade III Invasive Carcinoma (Breast Cancer) via Instagram. She also revealed that she had tested positive for BRCA1 (Hereditary Breast Cancer) meaning that she would have a 70% chance of another Breast Cancer and a 45% chance of Ovarian Cancer throughout her life and only way to mitigate the risk is through some very extensive prophylactic surgeries. After undergoing cycles of chemotherapy, she resumed her work in December 2022.

Item numbers

In 2013, all her four releases, '' Mirchi'', '' Bhai'', '' Atharintiki Daaredi'' and '' Ramayya Vasthavayya'' featured her in

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. She stated that she was happy "doing a five-minute dance number" as it gives her "phenomenal reach" and "a good platform to reach out to the masses".

Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nandini, Hamsa 1984 births 21st-century Indian actresses Actresses from Pune Actresses in Hindi cinema Actresses in Kannada cinema Actresses in Tamil cinema Actresses in Telugu cinema Female models from Maharashtra Indian film actresses Living people Marathi people