Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar (born 5 March 1985) is an Indian film 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, while her stepmother is Raadhika Sarathkumar. She is the eldest of four children, and has a younger sister Pooja, a younger half-brother Rahul and step-sister Rayanne Hardy.Varalaxmi is graduate in microbiology from Hindustan Arts and Science college, Chennai with a Master’s in Business Management degree from the University of Edinburgh, and honed her acting skills at Anupam Kher’s Acting School in Mumbai, before becoming an actress.
Career
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.
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