Exactly 10 years ago, Italian sensation Monica Belluci was in India to promote her 'James Bond' movie Spectre (2015), where for the first time '007' was paired opposite a woman that matched his age. Belluci was 51 then, and a mother of two daughters aged 5 and 11, yet she was pulling off the ultra glam character, even coining the famous phrase, "bond woman and not a bond girl".
Monica Belluci is a famous model turned actress in the European circuit, and has done quite a bit of work in the Amercian Hollywood too. Besides Spectre, some of her best known works are Malèna (2000), Irréversible (2002), the Matrix movies (2003), and The Passion of the Christ (2004).
In 2012, she was in talks to play Sonia Gandhi in an Indian production that was supposed to be a Rajiv Gandhi biopic, but Belluci has since said that the script wasn't ready, and she did not like what was narrated to her, hence that offer didn't go ahead.
Now in 2025, a Tamil movie titled Coolie with Superstar Rajinikanth in the lead is paying homage to the Italian glam sensation Monica Belluci. Coolie's second single Monica is titled after Belluci's first name, and the song composed by Anirudh Ravichander features a dance cameo by actress Pooja Hegde.
Monica releases in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu at 6 PM on July 11, 2025, under the Sun Pictures production banner. Coolie written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj is a multi-starrer action thriller, and the film releases in theaters worldwide on August 14, 2025.
Monica bellucci, Erangi vandhachi 😍💃🏻#Coolie Second Single #Monica starring @hegdepooja, from today 6 PM! ❤️🔥#Coolie worldwide from August 14th @rajinikanth @Dir_Lokesh @anirudhofficial @iamnagarjuna @nimmaupendra #SathyaRaj #SoubinShahir @shrutihaasan @anbariv… pic.twitter.com/4NmKfEJbmf
— Sun Pictures (@sunpictures) July 11, 2025
Monica Belluci was last seen in the American gothic fantasy Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), Ark: The American Series (2024), and a miniseries titled Ça, c'est Paris (2024). She will next be seen as revolutionary Italian photographer Tina Modotti in a biopic TV series titled Radical Eye: The Life and Times of Tina Modotti.
Top: Monica Belluci with daughter Deva Cassel, Bottom L: Coolie poster announcing second single Monica with Pooja Hegde, R: Rajinikanth as Deva
Interestingly, Belluci's real life daughter is named 'Deva', the same name as Rajinikanth's lead character in Coolie the film.