Sukanya

Sukanya

Birth : 1969-07-08, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

History

Sukanya (born July 8, 1969) is a South Indian actress, singer, music composer, Bharatanatyam danseuse and voice actor. She has acted in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu movies, totaling over 15 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She has composed two devotional albums namely Azhagu, Thirupathi Thirukudai Thiruvizha. She has won five Best Actress Filmfare awards for her performance in Tamil films including Puthu Nellu Puthu Nathu, Walter Vetrivel and Rajarajan.

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Sukanya
Sukanya

Movies

Thee Ivan
Lakshmi
A woman gets pregnant before the love season is over. She decides to get married and leaves the town before her pregnancy is revealed to the world. Her boyfriend dies in an unexpected accident. How is she going to get through the rest of her life, in accordance with the concept of “if a man does an evil, only his life will be spoiled. But a women does an evil, her entire family will be spoiled”. It is a story that conveys a profound idea that ignorance is the root of arrogance and servitude
Puranagar
An action film directed by Minnal Murugan, starring Kamal Govindraj, Ashwin Chandrasekar and Suganya in the lead roles.
Thirumanam
A couple who is in love convinces their respective families about their plans to lead life together. However, they realise that both the families are poles apart when they start the wedding preparations.
Inayathalam
Chandrika
A team of cybercrime officials are left scratching their heads after an untraceable website starts streaming murders live on the internet.
Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva
Shiva's Mother
A corrupt cop who has a heartbreaking childhood realises his mistakes and turns into a sincere officer to take on a dreaded criminal and his son.
Parandhu Sella Vaa
Tells the story of a young man who is settled in his job and is now going through the exciting journey of finding love.
Jambulingam
A villager becomes a magician's apprentice and travels to Japan, and accidentally rescues a little girl who has been kidnapped.
Srimanthudu
Harsha Vardhan's mother
Harsha, a multi-millionaire guy who has everything but there is something else he's looking for and in the process he adopts a complete village trying to bring change in the people.
Aamayum Muyalum
Bhandaravathi
The film is set in a fictitious poverty-ridden village of Gowlipady, which is virtually ruled by the ruthless zamindari Bhandaravathi (Sukanya). Kashi (Nedumudi Venu) is a lottery salesman. He is the only literate person of his village. Once, a lottery sold by him happens to win the first prize of 5 Crore Indian Rupee. Greedy Kashi tries to get back the lottery ticket but doesn't know to whom he has sold the ticket to.
My Life Partner
Dr. Leela Iyyer
My Life Partner deals with the deep and intricate emotional relationship between two men. The movie narrates the story of two friends-turned-lovers, Richard and Kiran, who were both born and brought up in different cultural backgrounds. Issues crop up when they plan to add a baby to their lives, reinforcing their mutual bond as the Indian law does not allow a man to adopt a child on his own. To find a way around this, Richard, who is a bisexual, marries an orphan, Pavithra. Their life goes topsy-turvy, when Pavithra discovers Richard and Kiran's relationship.
Ennamo Nadakkudhu
Burma, a gangster and politician, is after Vijay, who, he thinks, has swindled him of a huge amount of money. But Vijay claims that the money was stolen from him. Is he lying? If not, who has stolen the money and why?
Chandra
Queen Sarala Devi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chandra is a 2013 and 2014 Indian fantasy film, simultaneously made in Kannada and Tamil languages. Directed by Roopa Iyer, it features Shriya Saran and Prem Kumar in the lead roles. The film deals with the life of a last generation princess and her love story. Chandra is a joint production of India Classic Arts and Narasimha Arts. The film was released on 27 June 2013 to positive reviews and emerged as a commercial success, also becoming one of the highest grossing kannada films at its time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Duryea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Last Bench
Last Bench is a 2012 Indian Malayalam drama film, directed by Jiju Asokan and produced by T B Raghuanthan. The film stars Mahesh, Jyothi Krishna, Sukanya and Chinchu Mohan in lead roles. The film had musical score by Mohan Sithara and Vishnu Sarath.
Ellam Avan Seyal
A lawyer, who defends criminals, wages vigilante justice against them in private. The movie deals with the murder of a girl who was ragged and brutally murdered by her classmates. The lawyer, through his own investigation arrives at the fact that she was brutally raped by college authorities and framed the students as culprits.
Ayutham Seivom
Innathe Chintha Vishayam
Teresa
Garment exporter Gopakumar, with the help of his fashion designer Kamala and broker Immanuel, brings together three couples who are on the verge of separation.
Thottal Poo Malarum
Periya Naayagi, Anjali's mother
A happy-go-lucky youngster falls in love with his wealthy classmate. However, the girl's mother is opposed to their relationship and arranges her wedding with a gangster's son.
Notebook
Sridevi's Mother
Sarah, Sreedevi and Pooja are best friends who are studying in the same school. However, problems start brewing in their lives when Sreedevi gets pregnant.
Sri
Sriram's mother
A young man tries to save the girl he loves and her village from a cruel landlord.
Udayon
Molly
Kunju is a farmer with five children. He strongly and firmly believes that farming is the best profession and forbids his sons to pursue their own interest. Matters become worse when he wants his daughter to marry an ugly looking farmer.
Naidu LLB
Akash and Ashima leave for Goa to argue a case in the local court there. By the time they return to Hyderabad, a case of homicide is filed against the hero. From then on the story turns into a kind of a gripping thriller on how the hero gets out of the situation and helps book the culprits.
Adi Thadi
Tirupati (Sathyaraj) is a criminal who commands respect from state heads like the CM. He hates women and remains a bachelor even at the age of 50. A naughty college student Priya (Rathi) grabs Tirupati's attention though a beauty contest, and there he falls in love with her and proposes to her. Then, Priya's life turns to disaster
Vinayapoorvam Vidyadharan
Latha
Vidyadharan is a bank employee, who loses his job due to his wife's extravagant lifestyle. He tries to flee from the city but finds peace and happiness among slum dwellers!
Unnai Kodu Ennai Tharuven
Guest Appearance
Surya (Ajith) has been brought up in the army barracks in Ooty, ever since his mother(Sukanya) handed him over as a baby to a brigadier (Nasser). She tells the officer the reason for her action but the audience is not allowed to hear it at this point. Surya grows up to be a patriotic youth and the best soldier in his class. He falls in love with Indu (Simran), the daughter of an army officer. Indu's parents accept her choice of husband but soon after, her father dies in a bomb blast while her mother loses her life on seeing her husband's body. Not wishing to lose her husband too in war, Indu asks Surya to choose between her and the army.
Good Luck
Surya (Prashanth) is a carefree youth living in Malaysia with his brother Chandramohan (Raghuvaran) and sister-in-law Devi (Sukanya). Chandramohan and Devi are childless because of a problem with Chandramohan. Surya falls in love with dancer Priya (Riya Sen) and manages to steal her heart too. Just when things seem happy, a bombshell is dropped by a Sister Mary who tells Surya that he is the father of a small girl Pooja. Pooja must undergo an operation to save her life but insists on seeing her dad before agreeing to the operation. Surya agrees to pose as her dad and is forced to do so on a more permanent basis even after the operation is done.
Swastham Grihabharanam
Aswathi
Swastham Grihabharanam is a 1999 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Ali Akbar and produced by Kamaruddin. The film stars Mukesh, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sukanya and Jagadish in lead roles. The film had musical score by Berny-Ignatius.
Raktha Sakshikal Zindabad
Raktha Sakshikal Zindabad is a 1998 Malayalam film directed by Venu Nagavalli. The film stars Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Suganya and Murali in lead roles.
Amma Ammayiamma
Prabhavathi
Directed by Sandhya Mohan, and written by Siby K. Thomas and Udaykrishnan, Amma Ammayiamma is a 1998 Comedy/Drama film . Mukesh and Sukanya are starring, alongside Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Sukumari, Harisree Asokan and Innocent.
Chandralekha
Chandra
An unemployed man saves a rich woman and takes her to the hospital where her relatives mistake him as her husband. He plays along as he needs money to repay a loan.
Aahaa..!
Gita
Aahaa is a 1997 Tamil film directed by Suresh Krishna starring Rajiv Krishna and Sulekha in the lead roles. The film was a commercial success.
Gopura Deepam
Senathipathi
Meenakshi
Sethu falls in love with the village head's daughter. However, things are not all that smooth, as his elder brother is given the responsibility of protecting the girl's honour until she is married.
Indian
Amrithavalli
Senapathy, a veteran freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.
Maha Prabhu
Thooval Kottaram
Sujatha
Mohanachandra Poduval, is a lawyer, also working as a plumber, caterer, electrical worker, driver and chenda player at festival programs. He is engaged to Sujatha, a music and dance teacher, who is the daughter of Achu Marar. Things go smoothly until Devaprabha and her grandfather Rama Varma arrive in the village. The heiress of the royal family, Devaprabha forms a strong relationship with Mohanachandran.
Mr. Madras
Meera
Aruna, an industrialist, is unable to confront Thiruttani, a local criminal, and hires Murugan, who is in need of a job, on the condition that he solves her dispute with the criminal.
Sagaram Sakshi
Nirmala
Sagaram Sakshi is a 1994 Malayalam film directed by Sibi Malayil. It starred Mammootty in the lead role and Sukanya, Thilakan in other supporting roles.A. K. Lohithadas carried the screenplay for this movie .
Vandicholai Chinraasu
Parvathi
Vandicholai Chinraasu is a 1994 Tamil film directed by Manoj Kumar. The film stars Sathyaraj, Sukanya and Goundamani in lead roles.
Seeman
Captain
Uma
Kannayiram, a powerful gangster, kills Ramasamy, for not giving up his land to him. After hearing this news, Shiva, Ramasamy's brother, flees the military camp to avenge his brother's death.
Mahanadhi
Yamuna
Krishnaswamy, an honest man, is conned into a chit fund business and imprisoned. While he faces unspeakable hardships in prison, his family disintegrates.
Chinna Jameen
Sathya
Rasayya is a wealthy but cowardly man, who is being controlled by his uncle, Ratnavelu. An educated woman falls in love with Rasayya and makes him a changed man. Will Rasayya fight against Ratnavelu?
Udan Pirappu
Bhavani
Best friends Sathya and Viji are against selling their colony to a land grabber. Their friendship is put to the test after Viji falls in love with Sumathi and marries her.
Sakkarai Devan
Sakkarai Devan (Tamil: சக்கரை தேவன்) is a 1993 Indian Tamil film, directed by J. Panneer and produced by A. S. Ibrahim Rawuthar. The film stars Vijayakanth, Sukanya, Kanaka and M. N. Nambiar in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilayaraja.
Aadhityan
Rasathi
Aditya opposes the zamindar of a neighbouring village after he harasses the people and takes over their land. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Aditya forcefully marries Rasathi without her approval.
Walter Vetrivel
Sumathi
Walter Vetrivel is a 1993 Indian Tamil film, directed by P. Vasu, starring Sathyaraj, Sukanya and Ranjitha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 14 January 1993. It completed a 150 day run on theaters and became one of the highest grossing films for Sathyaraj during 90's in terms of revenue. The movie released to extremely positive reviews and became a blockbuster. The film was later remade in Telugu as S. P. Parasuram with Chiranjeevi and in Hindi as Khuddar with Govinda.
Chinna Mapillai
Janaki
Prabhu is a kind-hearted poor man who works as a coolie in bus stand. Visu, a marriage broker wants him to pose as a rich man from Singapore and marry Sukanya to break the arrogance and her money-minded father (Radha Ravi).
Solaiyamma
Solaiyamma
Solaiyamma is a mother-less woman who is looked after by her father. She has been promised in marriage with her relative Balraj and they are in love. Vairavan is a heartless muscular man who spreads terror among the villagers and rapes the village girls. One night, Vairavan enters Solaiyamma's house and tries to rape Solaiyamma but she stands against him and Vairavan runs away. The entire village thinks that she has been raped including her relatives and then her father commits suicide. Thereafter, she is rejected by the village. Vairavan tortures her psychologically to spend a night with him. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
Senthamizh Paattu
Senthamizh Paattu is a 1992 Indian Tamil language film written and directed by P. Vasu. The film features Prabhu and Sukanya in the lead roles, while Salim Ghouse plays a supporting role. The film, which has music composed by M. S. Viswanathan and Ilaiyaraaja was a Deepavali release of 1992. The film was remade in Telugu as Amma Koduku with Rajasekhar.
Thirumathi Palanisamy
Hamsaveni
Hamsaveni, a teacher, agrees to marry an illiterate man on the condition that she will stay with her ailing father after marriage. However, on the wedding night, he refuses to comply with her terms.
Kottai Vaasal
Kottai Vaasal is a 1992 Indian Tamil film, directed by Selva Vinayagam and produced by Mohan Natarajan and Tharangai V. Shanmugam. The film stars Arun Pandian, Sukanya, Saranya and Goundamani in lead roles. The film had musical score by Deva.
Ilavarasan
Poongodu
Mirasu (Senthilnathan) killed his elder brother Selvanayagam (Nizhalgal Ravi) and Selvanayagam's wife (C. R. Saraswathi), he tried to kill his mistress Lakshmi (Kavitha) for the inheritance. The innoncent Lakshmi was then sent in jail for Selvanayagam's murder and gave birth in jail, with the help of a police officer, she escaped from jail with her son Vijay. Many years later, Mirasu spreads terror among the villagers and rapes the village girls, his son follows his path. Poongodu (Sukanya) and her family try to flee the village but Mirasu's henchmen intervene and Vijay (Sarath Kumar) saves them. Vijay, who comes from another village, introduces himself as an orphan. Poongodu falls in love with Vijay and he gets married with her. Finally, Vijay clashes with Mirasu. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
Chinna Gounder
Devayani
The village head is a man who sticks to honesty while making judgements. However, when he falls prey to a conspiracy, he bravely fights to ensure that justice prevails in his village.
Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu
Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu is a Tamil film directed by P. Bharathiraja. The music composed by maestro Ilaiyaraaja while lyrics written by Muthulingham, Ilaiyaraaja and Gangai Amaran. Two peasant brothers clash with a powerful landlord.
Rangula Ratnam
suryam's wife
A united family of two brothers and a sister along with their parents move to a town. Elder brother (Suryam - Ram Mohan) finds easy way to get rich and marries the daughter of a rich politician and abandons his family. After their father expires, tragedy hits the family. The younger brother Vasu (Chandra Mohan) sticks with the family to take care of his mother (Anjali Devi) and sister (Vijaya Nirmala).