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PADMAPRIYA JANAKIRAMAN  
Born: 1980 Delhi, India  
Other name(s): Padma Priya, Priya
Occupation: Actress, model
Years active 2004 - present

Padmapriya Janakiraman (born February 28), better known mononymously as Padmapriya (Tamil: பத்மபிரியா) is an Indian film actress and model. A classical Tamil bharatanatyam dancer, Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu-language film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi (2003), following which she appeared in a number of Malayalam and Tamil-language films alongside leading actors. In a span of 5 years, she has appeared in nearly 30 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi  and has received several major South Indian awards. She is probably best known for her critically acclaimed performances in the Malayalam-language films Kaazhcha, Karutha Pakshikal and the Tamil-language films Thavamai Thavamirundhu and Mirugam.

Early life

Padmapriya was born in Delhi into a Tamil Iyer family to Janakiraman, a brigadier in the Indian Army, and Vijaya and brought up in Punjab. She did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh  and studied at Loyola Academy, Alwal, Secunderabad, from which she graduated with a B. Com degree. Later, she pursued an MBA degree in finance at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Bangalore. She was then working for GE Capital as a risk consultant in Bangalore and Gurgaon. After GE she was with Symphony in Bangalore. During her free-time, she ventured into modelling, which would later pave her way to the film business and acting. She has also won Miss. Andhra Pradesh in 2001.

Classical dance

She has grown up to be a vibrant dansuese under the auspices of the famous guru Natya Brahma V.S. Ramamurthy. She performed more than 200 public performances to her credit. Her Krishna Leela Ballet, where she performed the role of Lord Krishna for Hyderabad Doordarshan in 1990 is telecast even today on almost all Krishna Jayanti festivals and was specially chosen for the SAARC exchange program - she also featured in Nritya Rupam, an innovative choreography by Jayalakshmi Eshwar at Delhi, which was also specially telecast by Delhi Doordarshan.

Career

Acting

Her passion for acting and modeling has made her successful in her films. She made her acting debut in the 2003 Telugu film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi, a remake of the Tamil film Kasi, which itself was a remake of the Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum. She essayed the role of a sexually exploited poor sister of a blind man in the film. This made possible her entry into the Malayalam film industry in the same year, starring in the film Kaazcha alongside superstar Mammootty. For her portrayal of a mother of three children, who struggles to accommodate another child, a victim of the Gujarat earthquake, she received rave reviews and the Asianet Award for Best Female New Face of the Year. She then started acting in malayalam movies, where she acted with all the superstars such as Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi and Jayaram.

In 2005, she acted in her first Tamil-language film, Thavamai Thavamirundhu, a drama that dealt with familial bond, depicting a father-son relationship, in which she was paired opposite actor-director Cheran. She played a simple college girl in the film, which garnered highly postive reviews and won several awards at major Indian award ceremonies, including a National Film Award (for Best Film on Family Welfare). Padmapriya herself was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Actress for her critically acclaimed performance.  She next starred in the Malayalam film Rajamanikyam again alongside Mammootty. The comedy film, featuring also Rahman and Sindhu Menon, was an universal blockbuster, becoming the most popular film of the year, Padmapriya's highest-grossing film till date and even the highest-grosser of Mammootty and in the history of Malayalam cinema itself, after Twenty:20. 

In 2006, she appeared in 6 films. Her first release that year was Vadakkum Nathan, following which she starred in the Tamil film Pattiyal, in which she portrayed a salesgirl at a garment company. The Vishnuvardhan-directed gangster film, in which she shared screen space with Arya, Bharath and Pooja Umashankar, was a commercial and critical success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Tamil films of the year. Later that year, she acted in the Malayalam-language film Karutha Pakshikal and Yes Your Honour, which both were well appreciated by critics. Padmapriya's performance in both the films received positive reviews, particularly her portrayal as Poongodi, a street beggar, in the former fetched her rave accloades and earned her several awards including a Filmfare Best Actress Award. 

2007 she had even 7 releases, the first being Anchil Oraal Arjunan. Next she starred in Veeralipattu and Satham Podathey in Tamil film. The latter was a psychological thriller directed by Vasanth, where she enacted the role of a helpless wife, who gets kidnapped by her former husband, whom she had divorced due to his alcohol addiction. Following Satham Podathey, she appeared in the films Naalu Pennungal in Malayalam, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Mirugam in Tamil, directed by Samy. In Naalu Pennungal, which fetched its director the National Film Award for Best Directing, she essayed the role of a street prostitute, whilst in Mirugam, she played a tomboyish wife to a ruffian, who behaves like an animal, for which she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actress. 

Currently she is working on half-a-dozen films, which include her Hindi debut venture Striker opposite Siddharth Narayan, her Kannada debut film Thamassu alongside Shivrajkumar, a cowboy-based film Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam in Tamil, Kutty Shranku with Mammootty once again in Malayalam and ace director Vishwanath's comeback film Sumadhuram in Telugu. Whilst she will be enacting the role of a bar owner in Striker, she will appear as a human rights activist in Thamassu and as an army officer’s daughter in Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam.

Filmography

Year
Film
Role
Language
Notes
2004
Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi
Vasanthi
Telugu

Kaazhcha
Lakshmi Madhavan
Malayalam
Winner, Asianet Award for Best Female New Face of the Year
Amrutham
Sainaba Gopinathan
Malayalam

2005
Thavamai Thavamirundhu
Vasanthi Ramalingam
Tamil
Winner, Filmfare Award for Best Debut Actress
Rajamanikyam
Malli
Malayalam

2006
Vadakkum Nathan
Mira
Malayalam
Winner, Asianet Award for Best Actress also for Karutha Pakshikal
Pattiyal
Saroja
Tamil

Ashwaroodan
Sitalakshmi
Malayalam

Bhargava Charitram Moonam Kandam
Sophia
Malayalam

Karutha Pakshikal
Poongodi
Malayalam
Winner, Filmfare Best Malayalam Actress Award
Winner, Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actress
also for Yes Your Honour
Winner, Asianet Award for Best Actress
also for Vadakkum Nathan
Yes Your Honor
Maya Ravishankar
Malayalam
Winner, Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actress also for Karutha Pakshikal
2007
Anchil Oraal Arjunan
Pavithra
Malalyalam

Veeralipattu
Pooja
Malayalam

Satham Podathey
Bhanumathi
Tamil

Paradesi
Usha
Malayalam

Naalu Pennungal
Kunnipennu
Malayalam

Time
Susan Mary Thomas
Malayalam

Mirugam
Azhagama Ayyanar
Tamil
Winner, Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actress
2008
Pachamarathanalil
Anu Sachidanandan
Malayalam
Nominated, Filmfare Best Malayalam Actress Award
My Mother's Laptop
Payal
Malayalam

2009
Bharya Swamtham Suhruthu
Sreelakshmi Vallabhan
Malayalam

Pokkisham
Nadira
Tamil

Kathaparayum Theruvoram

Malayalam

Kaana Kanmani
Maya Roy
Malayalam

Pazhassi Raja
Neeli
Malayalam

Bhoomi Malayalam
Fousia
Malayalam

2010
Striker
Madhu
Hindi
Post-production
Charulathayude Baaki
Amritha
Malayalam

Andari Bhanduvaya

Telugu

Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam
Bali
Tamil

Kutty Shranku
Revamma
Malayalam

Thamassu

Kannada

Sumadhuram

Telugu



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