Ramya Krishnan watches ‘Padayappa’ in a theatre for the first time, shares video

Actor Ramya Krishnan recently shared a special moment from her career — watching her iconic 1999 film 'Padayappa' on the big screen for the first time. Posting a video from the theatre on Instagram, she expressed her joy and surprise at experiencing the Rajinikanth-starrer in cinemas years after its release. She wrote simply, “Finally watched 'PADAYAPPA' in the theatre for the first time.”

'Padayappa', directed by K. S. Ravikumar, is a Tamil-language action drama that also stars Sivaji Ganesan in his penultimate release, alongside Soundarya, Lakshmi, Radha Ravi, Nassar, Abbas, Sithara, and Preetha. The film revolves around the titular character and his family, who face a generations-long revenge from Neelambari(Ramya Krishnan), a narcissistic cousin humiliated after Padayappa rejected her love proposal in favour of his kind-hearted home worker, Vasundhara. The film became Tamil cinema's highest-grossing release at the time, and Ramya Krishnan’s performance as Neelambari was widely acclaimed. 'Padayappa' also won five Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.

Ramya Krishnan began her acting journey with the Malayalam film 'Neram Pularumbol' and had a small role in the Hindi film 'Dayavan', starring veteran actor Vinod Khanna. Her breakthrough came with K. Raghavendra Rao’s Telugu films, including hits such as 'Alludugaru', 'Allari Mogudu', and 'Major Chandrakanth'. She also played the devoted wife of Sri Annamacharya in 'Annamayya'.

In Kannada cinema, her notable successes include 'Gadibidi Ganda' and 'Mangalyam Tantunanena'. She made her debut as a heroine in Hindi films with Yash Chopra’s 'Parampara' and went on to appear in films such as Subhash Ghai’s 'Khalnayak', Mahesh Bhatt’s 'Chaahat', David Dhawan’s 'Banarasi Babu' and 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan' with Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda, and 'Shapath' with Mithun Chakraborty. More recently, she was seen in the Telugu film 'Purushothamudu', directed by Ram Bhimana.