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{mosimage}Some might have liked Padmapriya while some might have not, but this dusky beauty can't be ignored. Simple, the reason being she comes across as an actress who came to this medium with passion rather than being drafted into it. Else how can you term this actor who had not only done an MBA from Kirloskar Institute but also had worked with GE as Risk consultant in Bangalore & Gurgaon. It was that advertisement for Fair & Lovely what got us a lovely actress who graces the screens in Tamilnadu & Kerala. Asked about her unusual choice of choosing films as career despite having a wonderful management degree and a job at GE normally every youngster dreams for, Padmapriya retorts "why do we believe that education isn't reqd for films, its so complex to make films it covers math, physics philosophy history psyhology music dance"

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Padmapriya is the daughter of Brig (Retd) V.K. Janakiraman and Mrs. Vijaya. Janakiraman and has her roots in Thenkasi, Tirunelveli a small town in Southern Tamilnadu. Because of her father's militiary background she had her schooling more in places other than Tamilnadu. If you ask her about her family, this smiling beauty will say "like everybody has - amma appa and anna"

{mosimage}Padmapriya 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. She has also won Miss. Andhra Pradesh in 2001.

Priya's (as she loves to be called as) passion for performance based acting made her taking abstract choices in choosing the roles. Her first ever movie role was a sexually exploitted poor sister of a blind brother, in the Telugu movie - "Seenu.. Vaasanthi.. Lakshmi", a remake of Malayalam hit - "Vasanthiyum, Lakshmiyum pinne gnaanum..", which was later remade as "Kaasi" in Tamil. Her portrayal of a poor girl caught the attention of Blessy, the erstwile assistant of Padmarajan, legend of Malayalam cinema. He was searching a fresh face for his off-beat film "Kaazhcha" opposite to Mamooty. The role was a mother of 3 kids and how they accomodate one more kid from Gujarat earth quakes. An unusual non-glamorous debut again, Padmapriya went on to woo the classes and masses alike, making her the favourite of the western coasts of Malabar. "Kaazhcha" went on to become an off-beat classic in the annals of Malayalam cinema, more movies followed in the language, that too with prominent all film-makers like Sibi Malayil, Jayaraj, Shajun Kariyal and with M's - Mohanlal & Mamooty, commercial pot boilers like "Rajamanickam" too completing her reportoire.

Padmapriya's asset is her face that chameleons to any local milieu with ease. She can easily look like a typical Malayalaee girl in Kerala movies while transform herself completely to a local Tamil girl. She can easily be identified as a Kannadiga girl or Manavadu girl of Andhra Pradesh in any of her movies. Along with it, her dancing skills aid her in giving right expressions to the emotions of the characters. Padmapriya shouts from the rooftop that she is a tamilian and being proud for that. She says that she would love to settle down in Calcutta due to her penchant for Bengali culture.

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