Padmapriya Janakiraman Biography and Career
Padmapriya Janakirama better known mononymously as Padmapriya, is an Indian actress and model. She has acted in over 50 feature films and in 7 different languages: Bengali, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English, and Telugu. In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, films and family of Actress Padmapriya Janakiraman so read the article till the end.
She is also a trained bharatanatyam dancer. Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi in 2003. She has won a National Film Award, two Kerala State Film Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, Three Filmfare Awards South, with 9 nominations in different categories in four languages, and Felicitated at the 2010 International Film Festival of India, as well as numerous other awards.
Career
Padmapriya Janakiraman is a famous television and film celebrity and she worked in so many movies, this biography article is incomplete without talking about her films and shows. So here you will gain info about her films and projects.
Padmapriya Janakiraman made her acting debut in the 2003 Telugu film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi,a remake of the Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum. She played the role of a sexually exploited poor sister of a blind man in the film.
Padmapriya Janakiraman says, she accepted this offer “for the sake of friendship”. This made possible her entry into the Malayalam film industry in the same year, starring in the film Kaazhcha alongside Mammootty.
For her portrayal of a mother of a young girl, 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.
In 2006, she appeared in 6 films. Her first release that year was Vadakkum Nathan, which Padmapriya considers as her debut film, citing: “I started taking this career seriously with that movie”.She next 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 accolades and earned her several awards including a Filmfare Best Actress Award.
In 2007, she had 7 releases, the first being Anchil Oral Arjunan. Next she starred in Veeralipattu and Satham Podathey, a 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.
Short biography of Padmapriya Janakiraman
Padmapriya was born in Delhi to Janakiraman, a brigadier in the Indian Army, and Vijaya.
She did her schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, Telangana 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 KIAMS, Harihar.
Padmapriya Janakiraman 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. While studying in 12th class in Andhra Pradesh, Padmapriya did a music album.
She also holds a PG Diploma in Environmental Law from National Law School of India University and Masters in Public Administration from New York University.
On 12 November 2014, Padmapriya married Jasmine Shah in Mumbai. He is from Gujarat and works as the Policy Head for South Asia at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which is headquartered in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She met him while both were pursuing their Master’s from Columbia and New York University.
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Random biography facts about Padmapriya Janakiraman
In 2010, Padmapriya debuted into Hindi films by playing a bar owner in Striker, as well as into Kannada films as a human rights activist in Thamassu.
She also starred in the Tamil cowboy-based film Irumbukkottai Murattu Singam as an army officer’s daughter, and in the Malayalam Kutty Shrank with Mammootty. In 2011, she starred in Naayika with a performance that won critical acclaim.
NDTV wrote that her “beauty and acting skills helped in portraying the role to perfection and ‘young Gracy’ ends as the saving ‘grace’ of the film”. She has acted in some advertisements.
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