Padmapriya Janakiraman
Birth : 1982-02-28, Delhi, India
History
Padmapriya Janakiraman, simply credited as Padmapriya is an Indian film actress and model. A classical 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.
Veni
A diverse group of six pregnant women, who are on their way to becoming mothers but are plagued by misconceptions, confusion, and questions about pregnancy and childbirth. In their quest to know it all, they discover their identities and answers to their deep-seated problems.
Rukmini
We lead our lives in ways where we do not think much before doing something, which may or may not have a huge impact on other people. How our small actions can create big ripples in someone else`s life is the idea on which the film is based.
Crossroad is a first -of-its-kind portmanteau movie celebrating womanhood and tells the story of ten women, facing ten different life situations and explores how they tackle it. The movie encompasses ten feature films of fifteen minutes each, with each featuring prominent female artists from Malayalam film industry as the protagonist and is directed by a prominent Malayalam filmmaker. The movie showcases the vibrant facet of each woman and tells the story from her perspective.
Radha Menon
Roshan Kalra is a three-star Michelin chef who gets fired from New York's Gulli restaurant after he punches a customer. Forced to take a break, he flies to Kochi to spend time with his son, Armaan and his estranged wife Radha Menon. It's a fruitful trip because he manages to mend broken family ties. In a bid to help him get his mojo back, his wife suggests he put up his own food truck and begin afresh.
Rajeswari / Raaji
Patel S.I.R avenges the death of this son's family by going on a killing spree. He vows to kill everyone that was the reason for the death of his son's family before his blinded granddaughter gets her vision back. Why did the villains kill Patel's son in the first place? How a sixty year old Patel does have his revenge?
Vasundhara Devi
The lives of a vedic scholar Pattabhiramagiri and his family come under threat after a godman and his goons try to displace him from his centuries-old ancestral home as part of building an ashram. The “curse” that befalls Pattabhiraman in the face of opposition leaves him broken, till a mysterious ally lends him his support. Their fight against the evil forces forms the rest of the plot.
Rahel
Set in the backdrop of the picturesque Munnar, it tells the story of Iyob, a slave-turned-master.
Special appearance
Siva is fascinated by cinema and runs a rundown movie theater. With his theater in financial trouble, he goes to Chennai to meet his childhood friend Madankumar, who is now a film director, and seek his help.
Elvita
Kalyani, a poor labourer, strives hard to make a living and provide for Chellamma, his innocent eight-year-old daughter.
Jyothi
Chandrabose becomes an alcoholic after his wife's death. His life, however, takes an interesting turn after he dissuades a young IT professional from committing suicide.
Dr. Rasiya
Palachottil Geevargees Kuriyakose Easo is a proud father to Mariya Mariyamma Palachottil. Being a father he is protective of Mariya but knows exactly where to draw the line. He knows whats best for her and never lets his protective nature hinder Mariyas. Mariya also dotes on her father and the two share an adorable and loving relationship till Mariya discovers her father`s secret. This secret shatters her and her love life as well.
Kantha
An adaptation of the Sahitya Akademi award-winning play, 18 Natakangal, the story revolves around six couples, exploring different facets of their marital relationship
Ammini
The film is based on the life of Malayalam poet P. Kunhiraman Nair and is particularly based on his autobiography, Kaviyude Kalpadukal.
Special Appearance
Bachelor Party is a 2012 Malayalam–language Indian action film directed, co-produced and filmed by Amal Neerad. The film stars Asif Ali, Indrajith, Rahman, Kalabhavan Mani, Vinayakan and Nithya Menen in the lead roles while Prithviraj makes a guest appearance, and Padmapriya and Remya Nambeesan appear in musical item numbers. The film's screenplay is by noted authors Unni. R and Santhosh Echikkanam while the critically acclaimed original music and background score are composed by Rahul Raj. The film released on June 15, 2012, to negative reviews.Its plot is loosely based on Johnnie To's Exiled, a 2006 Hong Kong action film and has been given thanks in the opening credits. This film was released with high expectations and was declared as hit in box office
Soorya Padmam
A journey of love and revenge, the film's story unfolds amidst the travel of an interstate bus.
Sherly
Cobra (Malayalam: കോബ്ര) is a 2012 Malayalam comedy action thriller film written and directed by Lal (Paul Michael), starring himself and Mammootty in the lead roles. The songs were composed by Alex Paul, and background score by Deepak Dev.
Young Gracy
Naayika tells the life and times of a yesterdays' heroine of Malayalam cinema. It is the story of Gracy (Sharada) a leading star until she suddenly disappeared from the silver screen.
Sunanda
Ajayan is back home after a long time away and he is hoping to be with his mother for the rest of his life, but things go wrong when a young boy claims to be his son.
Indu
The story revolves around four friends who decide to get back to studies, after a gap of fourteen years. But, what happens when four of them unravel a mystery which was underneath for long time?
Revamma
Kutty Srank is a short-tempered, lonely, but law-abiding boatman whose work leads him to travel the back waters of Kerala
Shanthi
Thamassu is a journey from violence to humanism. Shankar (Shivaraj Kumar) is a police officer and Shanthi (Padmapriya) is a doctor. They both will marry but soon realize that their ways of thinking is different. Over the course of their confrontations, Shankar begins to question himself and realizes that like terrorists, he also believes in violence. Later how he change himself forms the story.It is a story each one of us goes through. How much of what we think as right, really right? How much of what we do as our duty, really service? Agni Sridhar weaves the story marvellously, touching upon issues of state sponsored religious riots, terrorism and the purity of human relationships which goes beyond all boundaries.
Following the success of 'Prasthanam', Sharvanand will see another movie of his release in a short span. 'Andari Bandhuvaya' is directed and produced by Chandra Siddarth with music by Anoop. Padma Priya who acted in the recently released 'Super Cowboy' is the heroine of the movie along with other supporting actors like Naresh, Krishna Bhagwan, M.S.Narayana, and others. Sources say the movie is a family entertainer with a social message. Sharvanand is fast growing in the film industry. Everyone will have to look out for him!
Bali
Simhachalam, a watchman is sentenced to death for stealing a precious diamond. However, a group of cowboys save Simhachalam and offer him the diamond, only on a condition that he fulfills a promise.
Madhu
Amidst strictly enforced curfew by Bombay Police during December 1992 following Hindu-Muslim riots, Suryakant - one of four siblings from Malad's Malvani slums, heads home.
Neeli
Set in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.
Maya
Roy (Jayaram) is a successful architect married to Maya (Padmapriya) with a daughter named Anakha(pet name Anu). Roy decides to take his family on a vacation to Singapore, but Anu insists that they first go to Roy's old home. They agree to go there first, stay for 4 days, and then go to Singapore. But upon arriving at the old house, Anu starts behaving strangely and soon Roy and Maya understand that she is infected by the ghost of their unborn child Shivani, who was aborted. It was at this house both that Maya conceived Shivani and that they decided to abort the pregnancy. Shivani tells them that she is envious of the love that Roy and Maya are giving Anu, and that she will kill Anu as revenge. Roy and Maya try to escape in vain. Roy calls his friend Raveendran to his house. They all anxiously pray and wait until the time when Shivani said she would kill Anu. By that time, Shivani has changed her mind, after seeing the parents' love for Anu, and spares her life.
Nadira
Pokkisham (Tamil: பொக்கிஷம், Pokkiṣam ?, English: Treasure) is a 2009 Tamil-language film directed by Cheran. The feature flopped miserably the box office compared to Cheran's previous work, Autograph due to the slow pace of the movie. Movie dubbed by Meena and Prasanna. This movie's concept was partially taken from the 1995 romantic Hollywood film The Bridges of Madison County, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Fousiya
Bhoomi malayalam movie tells an incident that took place in Thillenkeri in Kannur district in 1948 April 15. Communist party was struggling against the rule of Jawaharlal Nehru at that period. In Thillenkeri, comrade
Zakhariah (Jagathy Sreekumar) is a private banker who has returned from the gulf. He has a very straight forward life with his wife Molly (Uravashi) and their daughter Teena. His life takes a turn when one of his clients Girija Menon (Mukesh) gets close to him. Menon is a textile businessman and a womanizer who is married to an orphan Sreelakshmi who cannot conceive a child. Soon, Zakhariah begins to transform himself in his style and appearance. He gets an open offer from Urmila (Jyothirmayi), wife of an architect that she is willing to continue a relationship with no strings attached. From then on, Zakhariah begins to ignore business, family and gets into an illicit affair.
Roja Sr.
A story of homecoming from late 1970s, when 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the sixteen day long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family and culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience.
Anu
Sachi, a cartoonist, and his wife Anu dote on their daughter, Sandhya. One day, an ad filmmaker spots Sandhya and expresses his interest in casting her. Sachi and Anu agree and Sandhya enjoys the attention. However, the kid goes missing from the location and an old secret is revealed.
Alagamma
Ayyanar, a barbarian, beats up innocent people and rapes women. He gets married to Alagamma, a pretty girl, who hates him initially, but later decides to transform him.
The Prostitute
A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.
Moosa's journalist
The film talks the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before independence in search of job, mostly to Arabia, and happened to reach Pakistan, and then when returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a Pakistani passport, and now is forced by the Indian authorities to leave the nation to Pakistan, which even the Pakistani authorities won't allow.
Bhanumathy
A woman tries to save her marriage although her husband is impotent. Their marriage ends anyway and she marries again, but her vengeful ex-husband kidnaps her and holds her hostage in his house.
Hari, a Chennai-based software engineer, falls in love with Pooja. After having settled in life, Hari returns to his village in Kerala, years after falling out with his father. Pooja too arrives and does her best to reconcile the estranged father and son.
Susan Mary Thomas
An anti-corruption drive led by Disha, a Gandhian social organization leads to the resignation of Krishnan Nambiar (Biju Pappan), a state minister. Susan Mary Thomas (Padmapriya Janakiraman), an upcoming English novelist is the main brain behind Disha, who also is involved in several woman empowerment programs. Just after his resignation, Krishnan Nambiar is found brutally murdered at a private tennis court. The chief Minister (Kollam Thulasi) assigns Appan Menon (Suresh Gopi), the investigation charge.
Pavithra
Sudhi struggles to take care of his entire family by doing odd jobs. Pavithra, who is in love with him, helps him. Everything changes when Unnikrishnan and his young daughter arrive in the village.
Maya
Advocate Ravishankar works as a junior under the cunning lawyer, Venugopal, who is also rude. One day, Ravishankar beats up Venugopal and quits his job. He then fights for a murder case against Venugopal representing the opposite party.
Karutha Pakshikal is the story of a Tamilian immigrant Murugan, who makes a living out of ironing clothes of city-dwellers in Kerala. He is a widower living in a slum with his three children, one of whom is blind and thereby his pet.
Sofia
Bhargavacharitham Moonnam Khandam movie revolves around a notorious underworld Don of Kochi called 'Current Bhargavan' (Mammootty), who is always accompanied by funny looking goons (Johny and Mohan Jose). The present problem of the Don is that he has lost confidence and can't pick up a gun or be violent anymore. He accidentally hears the oration of world renowned psychiatrist Dr Shantharam (Sreenivasan), who boasts that he can even treat Bin Laden to come back to activities of peace. The Don then forcefully acquires the help of the psychiatrist.
Red Salute tells the story of Chala Vasu (Kalabhavan Mani), who is a head-load worker and a trade union activist. His father Karunan was an idealist who had committed suicide when Vasu was a child. For Vasu, the affluent businessman Joseph Thomas, who was his father
Seetha Lakshmi
Set against a feudal set up full of disputes, deceit and murder. Ahswaroodan is the story of Veerabhadran who has a heart of gold, but rules with an iron hand.
Meera Balakrishnan
Iringannoor Bharathan Pisharody, professor at the Sanskrit University, a very knowledgeable man with a keen interest in the Vedas, astrology and Kathakali, author of several critical works and winner of numerous awards, is the central character of Vadakkum Nathan. Meera (Padmapriya) is his student and murapennu. Both families have agreed to their wedding and a date has been fixed. But when the auspicious day dawns and the bride arrives at the mandapam the groom has disappeared. Years pass. No one knows Bharathan's whereabouts.Then one day his mother and younger brother on a pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Haridwar, Kedarnath, Rishikesh and Rudraprayag, meet Bharathan on the foothills of the Himalayas. From there unfolds the touching story of Vadakkum Nathan.
Saroja
Two contract killers, who wish to leave the crime world, are betrayed by their boss.
Malli
Bellary Raja is disowned by his stepfather in his childhood. Years later, his stepfather calls him to resolve the disputes between his children and makes him the caretaker of his properties.
Vasanthi Ramalingam
The film sensitively portrays the struggles of a father whose main priority in life is the well being of his children, and who is determined to see his children grow up to become decent, successful persons.
Sainaba
A story about two brothers, Gopi who is a farmer and Dinesh, a college student. Gopi's hopes for his younger brother are dashed when Dinesh joins campus politics and a world of violence. Things start to fall apart when Gopi, a Hindu marries Sainaba, a Muslim girl against her family's wishes. The intense political rivalry between Sainaba's brother and Dinesh brings matters to a boiling point after the marriage.
Lakshmi
Pavan is a boy who reached Kerala after he lost everything in the Gujarat earthquake on the Republic Day. Operator Madhavan happens to meet the boy among the beggars. Initially he dislikes the boy but soon he becomes a part of Madhavan's family. But soon they must part with him as the Govt. decides to send him back to Gujarat. Can the family bear that?
Seenu, the sole earner of the family, lives with visual impairment and hopes that he will recover soon. However, tragedy strikes when his girlfriend and his sister get assaulted by a political figure.