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| 13.8.1934 |
Number 13 is lucky for this lady. She was born on 13th August 1934. She performed her Bharata-natyam arangetram on 13thApril 1945 on Tamil New Year’s Day. It was also the date on which she signed
her first film contract. Thirteen has been favourably associated with landmarks in Vyjayantimala’s life.
“Although I was born in 1934, my elders entered it as 1933 in my school records, and so it has come to stay,” she tells you as she recalls the past. “I am proud of being a Tiruvallikeni girl. I was born on Adi Kritikai day in a house opposite the Parthasarathy Swamikoil in Triplicane. I came into this world moving my toes not on my head”, she chuckles. “You see, I was born with “dancing toes”.
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