Quotes by Padmapriya Janakiraman - Page 2

In every film, I sport a different look for each character. It's almost as if my features change to accommodate the characters.
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Accommodate
Features
Change Character Look
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Apart from being an actor, I'm an academician. I wanted to pursue something with which I could bring about a change in society.
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Pursue
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I am super lucky to have a resume which has all kinds of filmmakers and films and hence experiences as a person and actress for me.
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I Am Me Person
Hence
Resume
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However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.
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Authoritarian
Bend
Political Class
We Cannot
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No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.
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Costumes
Halls
Sake
Insist
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In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.
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Beer
Joints
Popularity
Pubs
Spite
Across
Rise
Nascent
Relatively
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I just cannot fathom the criteria and the eligibility for awards as there is an ocean of difference between the state and national awards.
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Ocean
Awards
Criteria
Fathom
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Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.
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Hindi
Barrier
Languages
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My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within that urged me to say yes to acting.
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Affinity
Entry
Academics
Always Me Acting
Artiste
Me Always Acting
Forced
Urged
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Getting a Masters in Public Administration was nothing unusual for me. I have always been a person to hold on to my other interests along with my acting career.
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Masters
Unusual
Acting Career
Always Me Nothing
Me Nothing Always
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It wasn't because of Striker's bad performance that I didn't sign any film in Bollywood. There wasn't much to do in Bollywood, and the offers weren't great too.
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Bad Performance
Bollywood
Film
Offers
Performance
Sign
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When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.
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Behave
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Tamil has given me an experience that's extremely rich from Vishnu's Pattiyal' to Chimbudevan's Irrumbakottai,' to even a small significant role in Ram's Thangameengal.'
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Ram
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Item numbers are a different ball game altogether. I feel no one in Mollywood has the guts or skill to film an item song, without making it look vulgar, as Amal Neerad can.
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Guts
Vulgar
Altogether
Ball Game
Item
Skill
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If I am offered a character that demands me to go bald, I would definitely give it a thought. I love my hair, but if the script is that brilliant I would take up such roles.
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Love Character I Am
Bald
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See, modern dance forms have a pull because the youngsters can relate to it, but it makes me happy to say that in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, people still relate to classical art forms.
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Dance
Modern Dance
Relate
Youngsters
Art Me People
Art Forms
Forms
Classical
Pull
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The reason why I returned to dance is simply because I love dance. I had also promised myself that I wanted to make more sense of dance, study and understand it far more in detail.
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Detail
Promised
Returned
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I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.
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Finance
Long Term
Management
Divisions
Go For It
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As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors for having given me characters with substance, as I have never gone around asking for a role.
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Substance
Me Way Never
Owe
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I started dancing at a young age. When I became busy with films and studies, dance took a back seat. Also, it was constricting for someone like me, who is not religious, to do something which is so deified.
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Young Age
Seat
Studies
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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.
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Including
Injustice
Intolerance
Loss
Movement
Pain
Social Movements
Starting Point
Empowers
Everybody Else
Gain
Towards
Hence
Incurred
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Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take it to a wide range of audience. We are making some popular works into stage plays.
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Augustine
Range
Wide
Dramas
Planned
Wide Range
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When you see the phase of 60s and 70s, the craze for Dev Anand and actors of that era, it still exists in south. The craze is huge but that's also for stars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal, especially for male stars.
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Phase
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It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'
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Casting
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Film Set
Bouncing
Choosing
Couch
Dreaded
Tale
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The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.
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Roots
Women World Way
Apparent
Correct
Move Forward
Pressing
Shaken
Subsist
Weinstein
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WCC is not an arbitrator, it's a collection of people who represent and protect the interest of women in cinema. We are an organisation that facilitates solutions for a just work space and don't see ourselves as arbitrators of justice.
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Organisation
Solutions
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I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.
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Disrespectful
Filmmaking
Linked
Affairs
Myself Look Way
Drunken
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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.
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Conditions
Weakness
Assumed
Dynamic
Film Sets
Inferior
Lesser
On And Off
Subjected
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Anger, pain and a tinge of joy are the recursive emotions I have been waking up to ever since I read reports on how Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed women in Hollywood for years. Some of these women are actors I have been longing to co-star with even if they reside in another part of the globe.
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Anger
Women
Harvey
Hollywood
Joy
Longing
Pain
Reports
Sexually
Waking
Years
Women Are
Since
Actor
Part
Read
Ever
Emotions
Harassed
Reside
Waking Up
Weinstein
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Three months after reaching the U.S., hurricane Sandy struck, and I had to spend four days in the university shelter. Though I have worked for projects on environment displacement in the past, it was the first time that I actually experienced one and understood how attached one can be to your regular shelter.
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Displacement
Reaching
Sandy
Shelter
Time Past Your
Attached
Hurricane
Struck
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Shwetha Menon is my good friend and I have nothing against her. But, the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress has been given to her for Paleri Manickam' in which somebody else dubbed for her. I received only the second best actress award for my performance in Pazhassi Raja,' where I have dubbed in my own voice.
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Award
Received
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