Sowcar Janaki will be appearing in a meaty role on Friday’s release Soukhyam starring Gopichand and Regina. Speaking of her sister Krishna Kumari, she says, “Krishna Kumari and I grew up as twins, she acquired a height, personality, she was a beautiful girl. I would be 5 feet and they would say I was an ugly duckling.” Didn’t the comparisons hurt? Not at all, she insists, as she was the first one to land in films with Sowcar.” Janaki has an impressive repertoire; she did 20 films a year and has completed around 387 plus movies. She recalls watching her Tamil films recently and says that she couldn’t believe that with three kids she maintained her figure and at 40, she acted as both a daughter and a mother in a Balachander movie. I learnt discipline and vruthhi meeda bhakti (respect for the profession) from NTR and ANR. If this industry is being treated as one and is being given respect it is because of that duo. Out of the present actors whom I admire it is Nagarjuna, he has a beautiful disposition like his father.”