Padmapriya Janakiraman

Padmapriya Janakiraman

28-Feb-1982


India


Actress

Padmapriya Janakiraman, better known mononymously as Padmapriya, is an Indian film actress and model. She is a trained bharatanatyam dancer, Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu language film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi in 2003, following which she appeared in a number of Malayalam and Tamil language films.

QUOTES BY Padmapriya Janakiraman


I am extremely choosy about my roles as I want variety; I would like to work with the best of people.

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.

The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to be, they are subjected to inferior conditions. And this inferiority projects itself through the feeling of weakness and subjugation.

I hate flashy metrosexual men. I prefer a rustic man who will make a long-time companion.

Actually, I am a typical middle-class girl.

I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.

The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.

If the character you play on screen has to have life, you should dub in your own voice.

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