Shubha Phutela (5 May 1991 – 22 October 2012) was an Indian model and actress. She was crowned Hair-o-max Miss South India 2010. She starred in the

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film ''

Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey ''Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey'' () is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language romance film written and directed by Narayan Nagendra Rao. It stars Aari Arujunan and Shubha Phutela, with Subbu Panchu, R. S. Shivaji, and Balaji Venugopal in other pivot ...

'' that was released in 2012.

Early life and family

Shubha was born in

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to Rajpal and Santosh Phutela. Her father is scientist/professor in microbiology. Her mother is a retired teacher. She has an elder sister and a younger brother. Her elder sister is married to an IT professional and is settled in the US. Her younger brother is doing his bachelor's degree in engineering. As a child, Phutela was very sheltered and studious. In her own words, After school, Phutela joined Dayananda Sagar College, Bangalore to do her graduation in BE Computer Science.

Modeling career

Modelling happened by chance. While shopping at the mall, Phutela heard about a small pageant happening there. Her friends compelled her to join the contest and as fate would have it, she won. From there on, she went on to win other pageants like Miss Cosmos 2007, Miss Youth 2008, Sigma Mall Brand Model Hunt 2008 and finally the big one, Hair-o-max

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2010. Phutela has been the face of some of the top brands like Fastrack, Honda City, TVS Scooty, Kingfisher, Britannia, Fly Mobile etc. She has done print ads for various textiles and jewellery brands like Nalli Silks, Rasi Silks, Kalyan Jewellers (Coimbatore), Kannika Parmeshwari Silks etc. She was on the cover page of March 2011 Femina's BUYOLOGY, Bangalore Supplement. Shubha has walked the ramp for designers including Raj Shroff, Michele Salins, Ramesh Dembla, Anu Nagappa etc.

Acting career

Phutela debuted as an actress in the

-language film ''

'', released in July 2012. In the film, she played the role of a Muslim girl, Jiya Jaffer. She spent two months learning

for this film. She opted out of the

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film ''Jai Bhajarong Bali'' as the producers of her debut film required exclusive dates.

Death

Phutela died on 22 October 2012 at the Apollo Hospital in

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, at age 21. According to a report by ''

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'', she was suffering from a kidney ailment which was a result of jaundice which she chose only to reveal to a small number of people. She was in a state of

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for the last few days.

Filmography

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