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Padmini (12 June 1932 - 24 September 2006) was an Indian actress and trained Bharathanatyam dancer, who acted in over 250 Indian films.〔 She acted in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi language films. Padmini, with her elder sister Lalitha and her younger sister Ragini, were called the "Travancore sisters".〔 Padmini was born and raised in Thiruvananthapuram in what was then the princely state of Travancore (now the Indian state of Kerala). She was the second daughter of SreeThankappan Pillai and Saraswathi Amma both comes from noble Nair families.〔 Her sisters, Lalitha and Ragini, were also well known film actresses. Together, the three were known as the Travancore sisters.〔 Padmini and her sisters learnt bharathanatyam from Thiruvidaimarudur Mahalingam Pillai. The trio were the disciples of Indian dancer Guru Gopinath. They learnt Kathakali and Kerala Natanam styles of dancing from him. N.S. Krishnan noticed her talents while she was presenting ''Parijatha Pushpapaharanam'' in Thiruvananthapuram. After that performance, he said that in the future she would become an actress. She was thus cast as heroine in his own production ''Manamagal''. The Travancore Sisters grew up in a joint family tharavadu 'Malaya Cottage' in Poojappura, Trivandrum. The matriarchial head of the family was Karthiyayini Amma whose husband was PK Pillai (Palakunnathu Krishna Pillai of Cherthala) alias 'Penang Padmanabha Pillai'. PK Pillai had six sons of whom Satyapalan Nair (Baby) was a leading producer of many early Malayalam films. Another son, Raveendran Nair's daughter Latika Suresh, is a leading producer of Malayalam TV programs. They performed at the 1955 Filmfare Awards. ==Career== At the age of 14, Padmini was cast as the dancer in the Hindi film ''Kalpana'' (1948), launching her career. She acted in films for nearly 30 years. Padmini starred with several of the most well-known actors in Indian film, including Sivaji Ganesan, M. G. Ramachandran, N. T. Rama Rao, Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Sathyan, Prem Nazir, Rajkumar, Gemini Ganesan and S. S. Rajendran. She appeared with Sivaji Ganesan in 59 films. She acted mostly in Tamil films. ''Ezhai Padum Padu'' released in 1950 was her first film in Tamil.〔 Her association with Sivaji Ganesan started with ''Panam'' in 1952.〔 Some of her noted Tamil films include ''Thanga Padhumai'', ''Anbu'', ''Kaattu Roja'', ''Thillana Mohanambal'', ''Vietnam Veedu'', ''Edhir Paradhathu'', ''Mangayar Thilakam'' and Poove Poochudava. Some of her popular Malayalam films include ''Prasanna'', ''Snehaseema'', ''Vivaahitha'', ''Adhyaapika'', ''Kumara Sambhavam'', ''Nokkethadhoorathu Kannum Nattu'', ''Vasthuhara'' and ''Dolar''.〔 In two of her popular Bollywood films — ''Mera Naam Joker'' and ''Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai'' — she was paired with Raj Kapoor. She did another film with Raj Kapoor AashiQ (1962). Her other Bollywood films include ''Payal'' (1957), Afsana (1966), Vaasna (1968), Chanda Aur Bijli (1969) and Babubhai Mistry's ''Mahabharat'' (1965).〔 In Mera Naam Joker she played very bold role of a girl who used to dress like a boy till accidentally her real sex is noticed by the hero of the film Raj Kapoor. The film had hot scenes involving Padmini. Her most famous was ''Thillana Mohanambal'', a Tamil film, where she plays a dancer competing against a musician to see whose skills are better. She also acted in a Indian-Soviet film ''Journey Beyond Three Seas'' (Hindi version: ''Pardesi'') based on the travelogues of Russian traveler Afanasy Nikitin (called ''A Journey Beyond the Three Seas'', which is now considered a Russian literary monument), in which she plays the role of Lakshmi, a royal dancer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Padmini (actress)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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