HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | DOWN SOUTH : TAMIL Padmini: An enduring icon of Indian cinema is no more26th Sept 2006 14.00 IST By P. Sreekumaran An era has come to a close with the death of Padmini, reigning queen of Tamil cinema in the fifties and sixties. The veteran actress breathed her last at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai at midnight on Sunday, April 24 following a heart attack. 
She was 74 and is survived by her only son, Prem Anand. Her husband, Dr. Ramachandran had pre-deceased the enduring icon of Tamil cinema. The last function she attended was the one got up to felicitate Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in Chennai on the night of September 23. Second of the famous Travancore Sisters - elder sister Lalitha and younger sister Ragini had died years ago -- Padmini has acted in more than 250 films. Padmini was an actress with an amazing range. She has acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada apart from Hindi. Among her superhit Hindi films are ‘Jis Desh Main Ganga Bahti Hai’, ‘Aashiq’ and ‘Mera Naam Joker’. The illustrious carrier of beautiful Padmini began in 1949 at the age of 17. An excellent dancer, Padmini has acted with all the top actors of Indian cinema like MG Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan in Tamil, Sathyan and Prem Nazir in Malayalam, Raj Kapoor, Raj Kumar, Ashok Kumar and Dev Anand in Hindi. She did stage a comeback of sorts in Malayalam films, the last two films being ‘Nokkethadoorathju Kannumnattu’ in 1984, ‘Vaasthuhara’ and ‘Dollar’. Noted Malayalam actress Sukumari is her cousin and Shobana , her niece. Related Dev Anand | CRICKET ZONE Live Cricket Coverage Song Lyrics ALSO READ scoop ~ John Abraham ready to go Full Monty ~ Katrina Kaif's acting fee keeps soaring ~ Imran Khan denies Aamir Khan is his mentor ~ Kangana Ranaut wants her boyfriend in 'Jail'? ~ 'Sarkar 3' with Deepika and Ranbir? ~ Tabu plays a sexually deprived woman ~ Dia Mirza hopes to bounce back in big way ~ Shahrukh Khan to make a superhero film ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Shatrughan Sinha wishes speedy recovery to Amitabh ~ Amitabh Bachchan to stay in hospital for 2-3 days ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Hello, Drona, Kidnap, Welcome To Sajjanpur, Hulla, The Last Lear, 1920, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex, Ru-Ba-Ru, A Wednesday, Rock On, Phoonk, Chamku, Dostana , Heroes , Karzzzz , Golmaal Returns MUSIC Dostana , Karzzzz celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | more... POPULAR WALLPAPERS Katrina Kaif wallpapers | Deepika Padukone wallpapers | Salman Khan wallpapers | Aishwarya Rai wallpapers | Shahrukh Khan wallpapers | Akshay Kumar wallpapers | Kareena Kapoor wallpapers | Ranbir Kapoor wallpapers | Priyanka Chopra wallpapers | Kajol wallpapers | Mallika Sherawat wallpapers | Rani Mukherjee wallpapers | Hrithik Roshan wallpapers | Vidya Balan wallpapers | Amrita Rao wallpapers | Genelia D'Souza wallpapers | Sneha Ullal wallpapers | Riya Sen wallpapers | Preity Zinta wallpapers | Bipasha Basu wallpapers | Minissha Lamba wallpapers | Ayesha Takia wallpapers | Imran Khan wallpapers | Nigar Khan wallpapers | John Abraham wallpapers | Sherlyn Chopra wallpapers MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEOS Dostana trailers | Drona trailers | Kidnap trailers | Hello trailers | Fashion trailers | EMI trailers | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi trailers | Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai trailers | Aashayein trailers | Paathshaala trailers | Toonpur Ka Superhero trailers | Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi trailers | Rang Rasiya trailers | Chal Chala Chal trailers | Heroes trailers | Karzz trailers | Horn Ok Please trailers | Golmaal Returns trailers | Ghajini trailers | Yuvvraaj trailers | Kambakth Ishq trailers | Dil Kabaddi trailers | Billoo Barber trailers | | 
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