Varalaxmi Sarathkumar

Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
Born	(1985-03-05) 5 March 1985 (age 35)[1] Bangalore, Karnataka, India[2]
Other names	Varu[3]
Alma mater	Hindustan Arts & Science College (B. Sc) University of Edinburgh (Masters in Management)
Occupation	Film actress
Years active	2008–present
Parent(s)	R. Sarathkumar (father)

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Varalaxmi Sarathkumar (born 5 March 1985) is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films. She made her debut with the Tamil film Podaa Podi (2012), portraying a London-based dancer.

Early life

Varalaxmi was born to actor Sarathkumar and Chaya on 5 March 1985. Her stepmother is actress Raadhika.She is the eldest of four children, with a younger sister Pooja, a younger half-brother Rahul and step-sister Rayanne Hardy. Varalaxmi is a graduate in Microbiology from Hindustan Arts and Science college, Chennai with a Master in Business Management from the University of Edinburgh. She honed her acting skills at Anupam Kher’s Acting School in Mumbai, before becoming a professional actress.

Career

As the daughter of actor Sarathkumar, Varalaxmi regularly received film offers from directors in the early 2000s. She auditioned for Shankar's Boys (2003) and was selected to play the lead role, before her father requested her to turn down the opportunities. Likewise, she also missed out on opportunities to act in Balaji Sakthivel's Kaadhal (2004) and Venkat Prabhu's Saroja (2008).Varalaxmi signed on to star in Vignesh Shivan's romantic drama film Podaa Podi (2012) during June 2008, citing that the opportunity to portray a London-based dancer had excited her. The film went through a protracted development, taking four years to make, before being released in October 2012. Co-starring alongside Silambarasan, Varalaxmi won critical acclaim for her performance. Rediff.com noted she was the "scene stealer" and added "she comes across as a genuine, warm person, able and willing to accept those around her for themselves, and rattles off her dialogues with such spontaneity and charm that she wins you over right away". Likewise, a critic from Sify.com wrote she "is the big surprise here as she makes a promising debut and brings alive her character with not just those smart lines, but with the kind of confidence and candour". The film also performed moderately at the box office, and performed particularly well in the multiplexes. Soon after the film's release, Varalaxmi worked on Sundar C's masala film Madha Gaja Raja, alongside Vishal, but the film remains unreleased owing to financial troubles. Her second release was the Kannada film Maanikya (2014), alongside actor Sudeep, and the film went on to become amongst the most profitable Kannada films of the year. In 2014, she began filming for Bala's Tharai Thappattai (2016), where she had to lose ten kilograms to portray a karakattam dancer. In 2016, she announced on Twitter that she has been cast alongside Mammootty in the Malayalam film Kasaba. In her tweet, the actress said that the big opportunity to work alongside Mammootty came to her apparently due to her performance in the Tamil film Tharai Thappattai. Varalaxmi was also committed to starring in Aakasha Mittaayee, the Malayalam remake of the Tamil film Appa but left, citing the behaviour of its producers who she called "mannerless". Varalaxmi is currently awaiting the release of two of her films, Sathya and Echcharikkai. In the latter, she essays the role of a dancer who has been kidnapped for money. Varalaxmi turned as Host for a TV show titled "Unnai Arindaal" which will be aired on every Sunday in Jaya TV from 14 October. She played antagonist in the Tamil movie, Sarkar.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role(s)	Language	Notes
2012	Podaa Podi	Nisha	Tamil
2014	Maanikya	Sindhu	Kannada
2015	Ranna	Herself		Cameo appearance in the song, What to do?
2016	Kasaba	Kamala	Malayalam
	Tharai Thappattai	Sooravali	Tamil
2017	Vikram Vedha	Chandra
	Nibunan	Vandana
	Vismaya		Kannada
	Sathya	Anuya Bharathwaj	Tamil
	Kaattu	Muthulekshmi	Malayalam
	Masterpiece	ACP Bhavani Durga
2018	Mr. Chandramouli	Bairavi	Tamil
	Echcharikkai	Swetha
	Sandakozhi 2	Pechankarasi
	Sarkar	Komalavalli
	Maari 2	Vijaya
2019	Neeya 2	Devi
	Tenali Ramakrishna BA. BL	Varalaxmi Devi	Telugu[13]
2020	Velvet Nagaram	Usha	Tamil
	Danny	Kunthavai		ZEE5 film
	Kanni Raasi	Anjali		Post-production
	Ranam	TBA	Kannada	Post Production[14]
	Kaatteri	Maathamma	Tamil	Post Production
	Pamban	TBA		Post Production[15]
	Chasing	Athira		Filming
	Krack	Jayamma	Telugu	Filming
	Piranthal Parasakthi	TBA	Tamil	Filming[16]
	Naandhi	Aadhya	Telugu	Filming[17]
	Colors	TBA	Tamil	Filming

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