Padmapriya Janakiraman

Acting

Padmapriya Janakiraman

Born

1982-02-28 (44)

Place of birth

Delhi, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 22 titles

Chef poster
5.5

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.

Chef

2017

Bachelor Party poster
5.6

Tony, a former outlaw, decides to lead a quiet life with his wife and newborn child. However, their peaceful household is disrupted after the return of a dangerous gangster, Prakash.

Bachelor Party

2012

Patel S.I.R poster
6.8

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?

Patel S.I.R

2017

Tiyaan poster
5.3

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.

Tiyaan

2017

Iyobinte Pusthakam poster
7.7

Set in the backdrop of the picturesque Munnar, it tells the story of Iyob, a slave-turned-master.

Iyobinte Pusthakam

2014

Andari Bandhuvaya poster
6.0

Andari Bandhuvaya is a sincere attempt to highlight the importance of human values in today's society. Movie shows two types of environments starts with city shifts to village and then shifts to city. Nandu is simple man who helps and lives in simple manner, he watches all as his family members. Paddu belongs to a poor family and feeds her family with a normal job. She is optimistic and straight forward. Accidentally she visits hero's village. She watches values of village. Her behavior and conduct changes.

Andari Bandhuvaya

2010

Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam poster
5.0

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.

Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam

2010

Bramman poster
4.2

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.

Bramman

2014

Ladies & Gentleman poster
3.9

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.

Ladies & Gentleman

2013

Seniors poster
6.2

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?

Seniors

2011

Crossroad poster
5.5

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.

Crossroad

2017

Snehaveedu poster
5.7

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.

Snehaveedu

2011

Striker poster
6.7

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.

Striker

2010

Poppins poster
4.4

An adaptation of the Sahitya Akademi award-winning play, 18 Natakangal, the story revolves around six couples, exploring different facets of their marital relationship

Poppins

2012

Ivan Megharoopan poster
NR

The film is based on the life of Malayalam poet P. Kunhiraman Nair and is particularly based on his autobiography, Kaviyude Kalpadukal.

Ivan Megharoopan

2012

Kutty Srank poster
5.0

Kutty Srank is a short-tempered, lonely, but law-abiding boatman whose work leads him to travel the back waters of Kerala

Kutty Srank

2010

Naayika poster
3.5

Documentary filmmaker Aleena delves into the mysterious disappearance of the yesteryear Malayalam actress, Gracy, from the silver screen.

Naayika

2011

Thanga Meenkal poster
7.5

Kalyani, a poor labourer, strives hard to make a living and provide for Chellamma, his innocent eight-year-old daughter.

Thanga Meenkal

2013

Thamassu poster
NR

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.

Thamassu

2010

Maad Dad poster
5.0

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.

Maad Dad

2013

No. 66 Madhura Bus poster
2.0

A journey of love and revenge, the film's story unfolds amidst the travel of an interstate bus.

No. 66 Madhura Bus

2012

Cobra poster
2.5

Raja and Kari are fraternal twins. They end up in the home of a young single father with two daughters on their quest to find suitable brides.

Cobra

2012

2000s · 27 titles

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja poster
6.9

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.

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja

2009

Four Women poster
5.8

A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.

Four Women

2007

Paradesi poster
7.5

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.

Paradesi

2007

Manjadikuru poster
7.7

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.

Manjadikuru

2008

Kaazhcha poster
7.6

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?

Kaazhcha

2004

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam poster
4.4

Bhargavan is a dangerous criminal who gets anxiety attacks that prevent him from attacking anyone. However, when he meets a psychiatrist, Santharam, his life gets transformed while he treats him.

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam

2006

Pattiyal poster
7.3

Two contract killers, who wish to leave the crime world, are betrayed by their boss.

Pattiyal

2006

Amrutham poster
8.0

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.

Amrutham

2004

Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi poster
NR

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.

Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi

2004

Rajamanikyam poster
7.4

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.

Rajamanikyam

2005

No artwork available
10.0

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

Red Salute

2006

Vadakkumnadhan poster
6.0

When a young man goes missing for years, his family concludes that he is dead. However, when his mother spots him years later during a pilgrimage, the real reason for his absconding comes to light.

Vadakkumnadhan

2006

Anchil Oral Arjunan poster
3.0

Sudheendran, who does not have a regular job, runs his household by doing odd jobs in his village. But chaos strikes when he falls for Sathi, Unni's daughter and his childhood friend.

Anchil Oral Arjunan

2007

Pachamarathanalil poster
NR

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.

Pachamarathanalil

2008

No artwork available
4.5

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.

Time

2007

Ashwaroodan poster
5.8

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.

Ashwaroodan

2006

Veeralipattu poster
4.8

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.

Veeralipattu

2007

Yes Your Honour poster
5.1

After passing his prime years as a junior under a corrupt, dominant boss, Ravi becomes an independent solicitor. He takes on a challenge when he fights against his former employer in a murder case.

Yes Your Honour

2006

Bhoomi Malayalam poster
NR

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

Bhoomi Malayalam

2009

Kana Kanmani poster
3.7

Roy and Maya lead a happy life with their daughter, Anakha. When they go to their old bungalow for a vacation, Anakha gets possessed by the spirit of an unborn child the couple had aborted earlier.

Kana Kanmani

2009

Mirugam poster
6.0

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.

Mirugam

2007

Satham Podathey poster
5.3

Bhanumathy tries to rebuild her life after escaping a suffocating marriage. As she finds hope and connection with her brother's friend Ravichandran, her past refuses to stay buried.

Satham Podathey

2007

My Mother's Laptop poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Mother's Laptop

2008

Thavamai Thavamiruntu poster
6.7

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.

Thavamai Thavamiruntu

2005

Karutha Pakshikal poster
6.9

Widower Murugan moves to Kerala with his three children and irons clothes to make a living. While dealing with daily issues, he also aims to fund the operation of his child who is visually impaired.

Karutha Pakshikal

2006

Pokkisham poster
6.3

The story of a marine engineer from Calcutta, Lenin, who meets a girl in Nagore, Nadira. Their lives intertwine through friendship, romance and heartbreak.

Pokkisham

2009

Bharya Swantham Suhruthu poster
4.0

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.

Bharya Swantham Suhruthu

2009

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