Anecdotes

Her only son Prem (Premanand) Ramachandran was born in 1962. He works with Warner Brothers. He is married to Indira Nair.

Born in Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram, she was the second daughter of Thankappan Pillai, a landlord and Saraswathi Amma, a pious housewife.

Along with her elder sister Lalitha and her younger sister actress Ragini, they were all exceptionally skilled classical dancers and film actresses, and together they were branded as the "Travancore Sisters".

Speaks five Indian languages: Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada.

After marriage she stopped acting and settled for family life in New Jersey, where in 1977 she started the Padmini School of Fine Arts. It is now considered as one of the oldest and largest Indian dancing school in the US.

Her niece (her brother's daughter) is Shobana, and her nephew (her husband's brother's son) is Vineeth.