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Not just a debut: Why Sai Pallavi’s entry into Bollywood is actually a takeover a decade in the making
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Not just a debut: Why Sai Pallavi’s entry into Bollywood is actually a takeover a decade in the making

The Indian Express·Yashaswini Sri·about 1 month ago
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Before Ek Din, before Amaran, before Rowdy Baby crossed a billion views, there was a girl from Kotagiri in the Nilgiris who was going to be a cardiologist. Sai Pallavi was studying medicine in Tbilisi, Georgia, minding her business, when a film director offered her a role. The movie in question is Premam, directed by Alphonse Puthren. The year was 2015. And the actress, Sai Pallavi Senthamarai Kannan, was still a medical student who had agreed to shoot the entire film during her college holidays on the condition that it would not get in the way of her degree. She finished the degree anyway. However she never registered as a practitioner. There were too many films to make. The Nilgiris, Tbilisi, and a dance show nobody remembers Sai Pallavi was born on May 9, 1992, in a Badaga family in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu , with her hometown being Kotagiri in the Nilgiris district. Dance came naturally in that household.…

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