South Indian Actresses Who Shined In Goddesses Roles

1. Meena

Meena is an actress from the Tami Film Industry. Apart from Tamil, she has had her moments of stardom in Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada movies. Sri Manjunatha is the movie in which Meena adorned the role of Godess Parvati. In the Telugu movie Devatha, she took up the role of Kovelamma who was an incarnation of Goddess Durga. She plays the role of an aggressive Goddess flawlessly. In the Tamil movie Palayathu Amman, yet again Meena takes up the role of Goddess Palayathu Amman in which she saves a child from the Satan played by Charan Raj Charan Raj is a versatile actor who is popular for >> Read More... .

2. Srividya

Srividya’s acting career was a diverse one. From movies to television, from the role of a heroine to being a mother the actress has left her mark on all. Chottanikkara Amma is a 1976 Malayalam movie that starred the dancing actress as Chottanikkara Amma, a Goddess. She has appreciated to this extent that a senior actor who had wanted her out of films, couldn’t stop praising her celestial role. Sri Shakti Mahimalu was yet another Malayalam movie which cast Prem Nasir and Srividya for the lead roles. Srividya adapted the part of Goddess Sri Shakti with grace.

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Bhanupriya is an actress who was a trained classical dancer and has strong eye expressions. She was roped in as Goddess Parvati twice, in the movies 1991’s Telugu movie ‘Sri Edukonala Swamy’ and 1997’s ‘Annamaya’. She was in the lead role as Goddess Durga in a 1996 Telugu movie Amma Durgamma. PC Sreeram, the great cinematographer, once said that her face was one of the most photogenic ones he had ever come across. In 2001, she adorned the role of Goddess Parasakthi in the Tamil movie Sree Rajarajeswary. She has even been the aggressive Goddess Kali in the Tamil movie Thaali Kaatha Kaaliamman.

4. Soundarya

She is known as the ‘Savitri of Modern Cinema.’ She acted as Nagamma in the movie Nagadevethe in 2000. Soundarya is lovely in the film as she maintains her assertive authority, even though the rest of the body is a snake, she makes it up through her expressions.

5. Roja

The film Chowdeshwari Devi Mahime saw the return of Roja into films after a long break. She disguised herself as Goddess Chowdeshwari and did justice to her character. Roja is seen as Goddess Lakshmi in the Telugu biographical movie Jagadguru Adi Shankara.

6. Ramya Krishnan Ramya Krishnan is a South Indian movie and TV actr >> Read More...

Just like all her other roles, versatile actress Ramya Krishnan, delved into the Goddess roles too. In the movie Ammoru, Ramya acted as Goddess Ammoru beautifully and was called a goddess for real by actress Soundarya. The movie Devullu saw her as Goddess Kanaka Durga. Neelambari gave Ramya Krishnan, the opportunity to do a Kannada heroine oriented movie. In 2015, she adorns the role of Jaganmatha for her coming film as she was critically appreciated for the role of Sivagami in the movie Bahubali.

7. Savitri

Savitri is known as the Nadigaiyar Thilagam of Tamil film industry. She has been Goddess Saraswati for the movie Bhakta Potana. And as Goddess Parvathi in Tamil movie Thiruvilayiadal in which she narrates the story of Lord Shiva, who attempts to calm his brother Muruga down and get him back home.

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Awarded the Nattiya Pehroli (Danseuse) for her contribution towards the cinema with her Bharatnatyam, Padmini was an actress with cross-linguistic abilities. In the movie Saraswathi Sabatham Saraswathi Sabatham is a Tamil television soap ope >> Read More... , Padmini was Goddess Saraswathi amongst other two actresses who played Goddesses Lakshmi and Paravathi. The movie includes a scene in which Goddess Saraswathi has a dance off with Sivaji.

9. Sridevi Sridevi is an Indian an actress renowned for her w >> Read More...

Known as one of the most beautiful actresses of Indian Cinema and the last empress of Bollywood; baby Sridevi played the role of young Lord Krishna in the movie Yashoda Krishna in 1975. Sridevi comes as a Goddess in the Tamil movie Thiruvidayal and gives the character of Rajesh his sight back. In the 1984 movie Aasman Se Gira, Sridevi has the role of a Forest Goddess. In the 1986 fantasy Hindi movie, Sridevi was in the garb, of a Nagin(Snake Goddes), which is talked about till today. In the Hindi movie, Gair Kanoon, She is seen as Goddess Lakshmi inside the temple and is worshiped by her devotees.

10. Nayantara

Nayantara is seen as Goddess Sita in the movie Sri Rama Rajyam Click to look into! >> Read More... (2011), opposite Nandamuri Balakrishna Nandamuri Balakrishna usually called as Nata Simha >> Read More... as Lord Rama. For which she won the Nandi Award for Best Actress and FilmFare Award for Best Telugu Actress. She was even approached by Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma is a famed Indian film director an >> Read More... to play the role of Sita again in his upcoming movie Raavan with Chiranjeevi.

11. Vijayashanti Vijayashanti, the popular Tamil and Telugu actress >> Read More...

Vjayshanti plays the role of Goddess Chandi in a Telugu movie Maha Chandi. While in 2002, she plays the title role of Goddess Sri Bannari Amman. The film didn’t receive much critical acclaim but Vijayshanti who destroyed evil gracefully and gave her best resulting in winning many hearts.