Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Child Artist Won - National Film Award for Best Child Artist

Between 20, Shamili studied and worked in Singapore, and later returned to Chennai to work on the production of Veera Shivaji alongside Vikram Prabhu in 2016. She played her first female lead role in Anand Ranga's directorial debut Oye! (2009) alongside Siddarth, though the film's mixed response at the box office prompted her to embark on another sabbatical. In Kannada, she acted in Dakshayini (1993), Kadambari (1993), Karulina Kudi (1995), Bhairavi (1991), Chinna Nee Naguthiru (1993), Bhuvaneshwari (1994), Mathe Haditu Kogile (1990), Hoovu Hannu (1993) and Jagadeshwari (1998). In Kannada she has acted with actors Vishnuvardhan, Ambareesh, Sithara, Shruti, Srinath, Geetha, Meghna, Vinaya Prasad, Sunil, Sathyapriya, Bhavya, Lakshmi and Abhijith. She also acted as a teenager in Fazil's Harikrishnans as Mammooty and Mohanlal's sibling. Her performance won her critical appreciation and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. In 1990, she acted in Bharathan's Malootty, a film based on Jessica McClure. Her breakthrough in Tamil came with Mani Ratnam's Anjali, in which she portrayed a mentally challenged child, which earned her the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. Shamili started acting at the age of two in Tamil Cinema.

Later he fulfilled his ambition through his children.

Her father migrated to Madras with an ambition of becoming an actor and the family settled there. Shamili is from a family of actors, being the younger sister to actor Richard Rishi and actress Shalini.

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