Ramya Subramanian

Actor - Health Coach

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

Six months ago, I hosted his farewell film in Malaysia.
Last evening, I met our Chief Minister. Life ✨♥️

For nearly two decades now, I have known this phenomenon … and I have always felt one thing — he is unlike anyone I have ever met.

Not because of his stardom…. But because somehow, in every room, he makes everyone else feel more important than himself.

He remembers. He listens. He cares. He checks in and gives you hope. He is a gentleman in a world that doesn’t always value gentleness.

A little belated, but with a heart full of love, gratitude and prayers…
Happy Birthday, my dear CM C.JOSEPH VIJAY !❤️ 🙏🏻💐😇

And Congratulations on completing 40 days of leading Tamil Nadu.

May you continue to do what you’ve always done best — make people feel hopeful.

And may the universe be as kind to you as you have always been to others. 🙏🏻❤️

[Pulkit. @jerseyno27]

Dhoni gave some really solid, straightforward advice. If you haven’t heard it yet, definitely give it a listen. It’s not just for Gen Z, but for people of all ages. This advice is especially relevant in today’s time.

[🇺🇸HG47🇺🇸 @HorseGirl]

I have the chills from watching this.

Ladies lets note how the other lioness stepped in when necessary we dont have each others backs enough.

That stare down and slaps. She meant business.

A mother's love is the closest to G-d's love.

🤩🦁❤️💥

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

@kmr_dilip Love your thought ! count me in :) 🤝♥️

[Simply Padmaja @Padmaja_Yatra]

One my friends sent this beautiful post explaining Karma. I thought it’s worth sharing 😊

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

What makes some women truly unforgettable?
The way they face life with grit, grace, positivity and the courage to embrace reality.

That was my biggest observation about the evergreen actor and politician Roja Selvamani mam,through our conversation. There’s a quiet resilience in her that really stayed with me. ❤️

The podcast is now live. Watch the full conversation.

https://t.co/hkjxBqR4XN

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

Met and had a conversation with the amazing @RojaSelvamaniRK today, and what stayed with me was her sheer boldness and positivity.

There’s something so energising about meeting a woman who knows her mind and chooses not to be distracted by the noise around her. ❤️🔥😇

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

He makes me laugh. He makes me think. But most importantly, he keeps his word.

He promised me one honest conversation he’d never had before…. and he delivered. Every word, every promise. ❤️

The podcast with @RJ_Balaji is LIVE now.

Watch here -
https://t.co/FOluXrRJpG

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

Youth. Excitement. Aspirations. Intelligence. Comedy. Crime.
Sema recipe ya irukku.
Watch out for Beep.

Congratulations to the team! Here's the trailer.😇

Trailer YT Link: https://t.co/1sRojKUZIE

@mquestmoviesoff @lssundar @ragz2richezz @johnmediamanagr @actionje @VeeJenish

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

@Rajkumar_KP ♥️

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

My dear friend,
Some victories feel personal and your national award win is one of them for me!♥️💐😇

From your years of dreaming,questioning,sacrificing and refusing to settle for anything less than what you truly believe in … I know what you have endured behind this recognition today.

Seeing all of that acknowledged on the highest stage fills my heart with so much pride.

May this be the first of many milestones in a journey that’s going to inspire so many more people.
Congratulations to our National Award recipient- Director @Rajkumar_KP 💐🔥😇👏🏻🙏🏻♥️

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

S. Janaki Ji refused the Padma Bhushan in 2013 and said she deserved the Bharat Ratna instead. A lot of people found that arrogant at the time.

Most of North India does not know her name. Almost all of India has heard her voice. If you have ever heard an old South Indian film song playing in a shop, a bus, a wedding, it was probably her.

So let me tell you who she was.

Her full name was Sistla Sreeramamurthy Janaki. Born 23 April 1938 in Pallapatla, a village in Guntur district.

Her father was an Ayurvedic doctor and a teacher. She spent most of her childhood in Sircilla. She sang on a stage for the first time at the age of nine.

In her twenties, an uncle told her to go to Chennai and try working with a composer named R. Sudarsanam at AVM Studios. She went.

She got her first film song in 1957. A Tamil film called Vidhiyin Vilayattu. She was 19.

In that very first year, she recorded songs in six different languages.

Six. In year one.

Across her career she recorded around 48,000 songs. In roughly 20 languages. Kannada the most, then Malayalam, then Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Odia, Tulu, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Konkani, Sanskrit.

She also sang in English, Japanese, German and Sinhala.

Yes, 48,000.

Her career ran about 60 years. That works out to more than two songs a day, every day, for six decades.

Including the days she was sick, travelling, grieving, tired.

While her mother tongue was Telugu, but she could speak and write Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Malayalis claim her as theirs. Kannadigas claim her as theirs. Tamils claim her as theirs.

All of them are correct. :)

They called her the queen of expression and modulation. Meaning she could change how a song felt with tiny things.

A slight break in a word. A softer breath. She could sound like a village girl in one song and a heartbroken woman in the next and a child in the one after that.

That is why composers fought to book her.

Infact, Ilaiyaraaja Ji had heard her voice while assisting the composer G. K. Venkatesh. When he got his own first film, Annakkili in 1976, he asked her to sing three songs. All three became huge.

That started something. For the next two decades, Ilaiyaraaja and Janaki produced hit after hit. He knew exactly what her voice could do and kept stretching it.

She became the first choice for anything with a village setting, anything that needed rawness.

Ilaiyaraaja sang around 200 duets with her himself.

Three of her four National Awards came from his compositions.

And eventually she became the only singer to have won state awards under all three of the giants. M. S. Viswanathan. Ilaiyaraaja. A. R. Rahman.

Imagine, three generations of music.

Three completely different styles.

She worked across all of them and was excellent in all of them. A 40 year span of staying relevant while the entire sound of Indian cinema changed twice.

Her first National Award came in 1981 for a Malayalam song, Ettumanoorambalathil, from a film called Oppol.

She won four National Awards in all, and 33 State Film Awards. Thirty three.

She also had a Hindi chapter that almost nobody remembers. Bappi Lahiri heard her singing a Hindi song for a Tamil film at Prasad Studio and was floored.

He brought her to Bombay. She ended up singing duets with Kishore Kumar.

Now, her personal life was much harder than the discography.

She married V. Ramprasad in 1959. He backed her career fully and used to travel with her to recordings. He died in 1997 of a cardiac arrest.

Her son Murali Krishna died this January, just six months ago.

She is survived by her granddaughter, Apsara Vydyula, who announced her death on Instagram.

She wrote that to the world Janaki was an iconic voice, and to them she was a grandmother whose warmth and humility they will carry forever.

She ended her singing career in 2017 with a concert in Mysuru. The last song she chose was a Malayalam lullaby, Amma Poovinum.

She picked a lullaby to close out 48,000 songs. :)

Now back to the Padma Bhushan.

In 2013 the government offered it to her. It is India's third highest civilian honour. She said no.

She said it had come far too late. And she said if the country actually wanted to recognise her work, it should have been the Bharat Ratna.

At the time, plenty of people called that ego.

But look at what she was sitting on when she said it. 48,000 songs. Twenty languages. Four Nationals. Thirty three state awards. Six decades. Work with every major composer across three generations. A voice that raised entire regions.

Lata Ji got the Bharat Ratna in 2001. Bhimsen Joshi got it in 2008. M. S. Subbulakshmi got it in 1998.

Janaki was 75 when they offered her the third best one.

She had every right to feel that the country had taken her for granted. And she said so out loud, without an agent or a PR team softening it.

But honestly, what bothers me is that she is being introduced to half the country today, in a condolence tweet, at 88, after she is gone.

She was not obscure. She was not niche. Her voice was in millions of homes for sixty years. She was just South Indian in a country where national fame is still mostly decided in Hindi.

If you have never heard her, do not scroll past this.

Go put on Thumbi Vaa Thumbakudathil. Or Vasantha Panchami Naalil. Or Singara Velane Deva. You do not need to understand the words. You will understand the voice in about ten seconds.

That is the whole point of her. She never needed you to know the language.

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

I will always remember how kind and respectful you were to me even when I was a nobody,the first time I met you sir.

Thank you for always remembering and calling me by my name since then, for every word of appreciation you gave me on the stage and every blessing.

Rest in peace, sir. The world feels emptier without you. 💔

#RIPBharathiRajaSir

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

Not just our Thalapathy anymore…

நம் மாண்புமிகு முதலமைச்சர் விஜய் அவர்களின் வரலாற்று சிறப்புமிக்க அசுர வெற்றிக்கு வாழ்த்துக்கள் !!!!
😍♥️🤙🏻🔥🙏🏻💯🤗

[Harish M @chnmharish]

Some scenes from #Jananayagan have been leaked. I'm not shocked by this leak. Honestly, it was expected, as always. I may have worked as an AD only on a few films, but I know what this feels like. I've seen that pain up close, the kind a director and producer go through. A film I worked on was leaked online on the very same day it released in theatres. That feeling…. it stays with you. From then till now, the only thing we've really been able to do is take it down. That's it. If you go the legal route, file complaints…. you end up waiting. Days turn into months. Most of the time, nothing really moves. Sometimes the court steps in, and there's at least an attempt to find who did it. But even then, things don't always go anywhere. Orders come… and then quietly disappear.

This isn't just about a few people in the spotlight. It's about the effort of 200+ people. So many technicians, so many workers, so many lives behind one film. And honestly, the problem isn't even about who leaked it. The real pain is this, so many people's hard work just gets thrown away like it means nothing.

Back then, people like Vishal could walk into shops and question those selling pirated CDs. Today, it's not that simple. When something leaks online, you don't even know where it started. Until these kinds of things are truly stopped, I don't think hard work in this industry will ever get the respect it deserves. Some say the leak came from within the crew, others call it a political agenda. Either way, it doesn't change the damage. It throws the hard work of everyone who worked on that film straight into the dustbin.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

It seems like everyone is obsessed with productivity and efficiency yet rarely get anything meaningful done. I'm convinced your best work is done when you're not working. When you have space for creative ideas to emerge that drastically change the trajectory of your life/work.

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

Just watched #Dhurandhar2 …this movie is the start of a new cinematic wave in Indian cinema…it doesn’t just raise the bar,it deletes it.

A weekday morning show in Chennai turning into a stadium with people celebrating every moment that stands for India is something I have never seen before. 🙏🏻🔥♥️💯

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

That’s it. That’s the mood…♥️☺️
#February2026

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

‘Thalapathy Thiruvizha’ paaka ready aayitingalaa Nanbaas and Nanbis !?

@ZeeTamil today 4:30pm-10pm IST
#JanaNayaganAudioLaunch

Get ready to witness #OneLastTime ,the legend who has entertained us over 3 decades with 69 films. 🤝💯🥳🤩♥️🙏🏻😇

[Ramya Subramanian @actorramya]

It was an honour being the host for Marvellous Margazhi 2025 . ♥️🙏🏻😇