Padmini was a leading actress and one of the highest-paid actresses of the 50s, 60s and 70s. They performed at the 1955 Filmfare Awards. Pillai had six sons, of whom Satyapalan Nair (Baby) was a leading producer of many early Malayalam films. Pillai (Palakunnathu Krishna Pillai of Cherthala) alias "Penang Padmanabha Pillai". The matriarchial head of the family was Karthiyayini Amma, whose husband was P.K. The Travancore Sisters grew up in a joint family tharavadu (Malaya Cottage) in Poojappura, Trivandrum. She was thus cast as heroine in his own production Manamagal. After that performance, he said that in the future she would become an actress. Krishnan noticed her talents while she was presenting Parijatha Pushpapaharanam in Trivandrum. They learnt Kathakali and Kerala Natanam styles of dancing from him. The trio were the disciples of Indian dancer Guru Gopinath. Padmini and her sisters learnt Bharathanatyam from Thiruvidaimarudur Mahalingam Pillai. Together, the three were known as the Travancore sisters. Her sisters Lalitha and Ragini, were also well known film actresses. She was the second daughter of Sree Thankappan Pillai and Saraswathi Amma. Padmini was born and raised in Trivandrum (present-day Thiruvananthapuram), in what was then the princely state of Travancore (now the Indian state of Kerala).
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