Hours after leading Karnataka to the title in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Sunday, India batsman Manish Pandey headed to Mumbai to get married to Ashrita Shetty. 26-year-old Ashrita is an actress in southern films, who made her debut in the 2012 Tulu film, “Telikada Bolli”.
Manish in fact made the news known at the post-match presentation ceremony on Sunday when he said that ahead of the test that awaits in the limited-overs series against West Indies, he had the marriage test on Monday.
“Looking forward to the India series, but before that there is another important series for me, I am getting married tomorrow,” he smiled.
Manish played a key role in the final against Tamil Nadu and hit a 45-ball 60 to help Karnataka post 180. Tamil Nadu fell 1 run short in the chase.
As for Ashrita, she has worked in four other films over the past seven years – “Udhayam NH4”, “Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum”, “Indrajith” and the unreleased “Naan Than Shiva”.
Before her film debut, Ashrita participated in a beauty contest aimed at selecting a fresh face for a cosmetic care brand in 2010. She won the contest, which opened up doors for a stint in TV commercials.
Around this time, she was signed up to play a lead role in Manimaran’s 2013 Tamil romantic thriller “Udhayam NH4”, opposite Siddharth. The film featured Kay Kay Menon in a pivotal role.
She was last seen in the 2017 Tamil action drama “Indrajith” that had Gautam Karthik in the title role.
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Shhyamali De, ex-wife of filmmaker Raj Nidimoru, shared a heartfelt and emotional note following the recent wedding of Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Raj Nidimoru, expressing gratitude while also revealing a deeply personal challenge she is facing.
“I spent a sleepless night tossing and turning, debating, and realised it would be ungrateful and churlish not to acknowledge all the good that is coming to me. I have been practising Meditation on Twin Hearts for many years now. Doing the meditation involves blessing Mother Earth and all persons and beings with peace, love, forgiveness, hope, light, joy, loving-kindness, goodwill, and the will to do good,” she wrote.
Shhyamali added that a friend reminded her that all the positivity she is currently receiving is simply energy returning to her. She clarified that she manages her social media personally, without any team or PR assistance: “I have no team, no PR, no staff or associates managing my page. I am personally responding while dealing with something that needs my full presence.”
She then opened up about a deeply personal struggle: “On 9 November, my Jyotish guru was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, which has unfortunately metastasised to multiple parts of the body, including the brain. I am sure you all will understand where my attention must be right now.”
Concluding her note, Shhyamali appealed to her followers with a simple request: “So, a humble request: please keep this space clean. Thank you… thank you… thank you… May every person, every being be blessed with good health, happiness, prosperity, and spirituality.”
Meanwhile, the end of 2025 marked a new beginning for Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Raj Nidimoru. On December 1, the couple tied the knot in a Bhuta Shuddhi Vivaha ceremony at the Linga Bhairavi abode in Sadhguru’s Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore. The two first met in 2021 while working on The Family Man Season 2. What began as a professional association gradually grew into a close friendship, eventually blossoming into love, and culminated in marriage.
