Kaveri Muralidharan

Kaveri Muralidharan, also known as Kalyani, is a South Indian actress and producer. She began her acting career as a child artist playing roles in various films. Her debut film was in 1986 in the Malayalam movie Ammanam Kili. Some of her other films that portrayed her as a child artist include Kakkothikkaville Appooppan Thaadikal (1988). It is a well noticed one in which she played the childhood role of actress ‘ Ambika story coming soon >> Read More... ’. ‘Vembanaad’ (1990), ‘ Marupuram Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (1990), ‘Sadayam’ (1992) were among her other releases.

Being known to the Malayalam industry from her childhood, it was a cake walk for her to get into the lead roles. There was no hesitation among directors to rope her in for their projects. In 1993, she worked in Bhoomi Geetham, ‘Porutham’, and ‘Midhunam’. She is best known, and received appreciation for her role in the 1994 hit Avan Ananthapadmanabhan. In 1996, she starred in ‘ Guru Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, which made India’s official entry to the Oscars by getting nominated in the Best Foreign Film category. She also had three other films lining up for release in the same year. She was on the radar for various films and an average of 4 films of hers released every year. In 1997, she had ‘Manasam’, ‘Anubhoothi’, Five Star Hospital, ‘Raajathanthram’.

Though she had been dedicated in her roles only in Malayalam movies, she took a chance of moving to other languages. And to her surprise, she was welcomed with both hands in Tamil and Telugu Film Industries as well. She had a great year in 2000 when she was starring in 2 Tamil films- Kannukul Nilavu and ‘ Appu Click to look into! >> Read More... ’. She gained appreciation for her roles, and thus, her market value increased leading to another three films in Tamil in 2001- ‘Samudhiram’, ‘ Kasi Story soon >> Read More... ’, Ninaikadha Nallillai. She also had a Telugu movie in hand ‘Seshu’. Again 2002 gave her a blistering start where she signed up for 4 Telugu pictures. Here it is important to mention the movie, Avunu Vallidaru Ista Paddaru for which she bagged the Nandi Award and SICA Award for Best Actress. Other films that released that year include ‘ Vasantham Vasantham serial was aired by Sun Television Netwo >> Read More... ’, Kabbadi Kabbadi.

She had made a mark in the South Indian Film Industry. She also starred in a TV series ‘ Thyagam The story revolves around the family of a woman an >> Read More... ’ for Sun TV. When she was on a roll in Kollywood and Tollywood cinema, in 2005, she fell in love with a film director Surya Kiran Bio coming soon... >> Read More... , elder brother of actress ‘ Sujitha Sujitha is a popular and successful television act >> Read More... ’, and they got married on May 1, 2005. In 2006, another award came her way in the name of National Film Award for the top film on Other Social Issues for the movie ‘Hope’. In 2007, she made a comeback to her hometown Industry (Malayalam) playing second lead roles in various movies like ‘ Kangaroo Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, ‘ Janakan Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (2010), April Fool (2010). She also produced the film Chapter 6 directed by her husband that became a huge success.