Gayathri comes from excellent choreographic stock.

She is the daughter of the celebrated   Raghuram Master, a frontiersman in the art of film choreography who is now celebrating his golden jubilee in films  after having made almost every star in the Tamil film industry   traipse  to his commands.

The niece of Kala Master, National Award  Winner for choreography, who has dance directed her way through 3600 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malyalam, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali etc, Gayathri is also the grand niece of DR. Padma Subramaniyam, the foremost exponent of Bharatanatyam in India today.

To no one’s surprise, Gayathri took to dancing and choreography the way a fish takes to water right from her toddle days.

But her  enticing good looks fetched her  unturndownable  offers  from all the four South Indian film industries - Nakshatra Kannulla Rajakumaran, Avanudoru Rajakumari in Malayalam, Charlie Chaplin, Vikadan ,Vistle in Tamil  Manasellam Ninee in Kannada and Reppalalo Radha etc in Telugu.

She made the entire Tamil film industry sit up and take notice of her, with a single dance step that called for incredible physical elasticity in her debut film, Charlie Chaplin.

Kamalhaasan, a close friend of her father advised her not to sign films indiscriminately, but to select only those roles that gave her plenty of scope for acting- a piece of advice she follows diligently .

Her pedigree made her try her hand in choreography as well and today she is continuing her father’s tradition; recently she  directed  Salman Khan’s steps in the Hindi version of Pokkiri.

Offers from other films, including Malayalam are pouring in for  the first and only actress-choreographer in Indian films today, who can make any song come alive through her choreography.