A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dhyana
Vidhya
Vidhya Pradeep
Vidhya paradeep
Vidya
Vidya Gopakumar
Vidya Pradeep
Birthplace:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Born:
November 19, 1992
Vidya Pradeep is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil and Malayalam films. Vidya Pradeep completed a Masters degree in biotechnology and then pursued a PhD at a leading eye hospital in Chennai. As a research scientist, she studied stem cell biology and continues to balance her commitments alongside work in the entertainment industry.She appeared in several commercials as a model and was spotted by director Vijay, who cast her in his successful family drama film, Saivam (2014) to portray Sara Arjun's mother. In the film, she put on weight to portray a middle aged woman, and the film and ensemble cast won positive reviews for their portrayal of a family. She then featured in the action drama, Adhibar (2015) as the lead actress opposite Jeevan, which opened to negative reviews Vidya then worked on Pandiraj's Pasanga 2 (2015) portraying the mother of a small child. In the film, she worked alongside actors Ramdoss, Karthik Kumar and Bindu Madhavi, while the producer Suriya also made a guest appearance.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.