A familiar face was spotted in Varsha Bharath’s recent Tamil coming-of-age film Bad Girl. Playing the protagonist’s mother is Shanthi Priya, the ’90s actor who appeared widely in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu movies. In fact, she’s also the first co-star of Akshay Kumar as she made her Hindi cinema debut opposite him in Raj N Sippy’s 1991 action film Saugandh.

Shanthipriya is the younger sister of actor Bhanupriya. She made her acting debut with Relangi Narsimha Rao’s 1987 Telugu comedy Kaboye Alludu. The same year, she also made her Tamil debut with Gangai Amaran’s romantic movie Enga Ooru Pattukaran. She was credited as Nishanthi in Tamil films. Shanthi Priya and Anjali Sivaraman in Bad Girl.

She continued to work across the Tamil and Telugu film industries for years, even playing Shakunt

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