K. R. Vatsala

K. R. Vatsala

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K. R. Vatsala is a noted actress associated with south Indian films. She is the sibling of leading south Indian heroine, K. R. Vijaya. Apart from films, she has done a couple of Tamil serials - Thirumathi Selvam and Thendral. She mostly plays elderly roles at present in Malayalam and Tamil movies. She was a trained dancer and got her break as a cabaret dancer (a comedy bit) in Ottayaal Pattaalam (1992), followed by Sarpayagam in Telugu and Sundarakandam in Tamil. All these movies were released simultaneously. She has been featured in several dance sequences, apart from doing character roles. Her sister K. R. Savithri was also a popular actress. A film producer too, she owns K R Films, a film studio.

 

She was born and brought up in Thiruvananthapuram. Both her sisters are film actors. In fact her elder sister K. R. Vijaya has been a well-established heroine of south Indian cinema, who has been frequently paired with Sivaji Ganeshan, M. G. R, Prem Nazir etc. K. R. Vatsala entered film scene only the 1990s, when Vijaya has already become less active. Yet in a short interval of time, she played around 200 character roles. She is less active in film scene.

 

She was born into a theater family which owned a drama troupe. Her father was a great patron of arts and cinema, and wanted his daughters to earn fame as Lalitha-Padmini-Ragini trio. Since the age of three, she used to perform a pooja dance before the start of the plays produced by her father. For the same reason, she didn’t have stage fear. Though she wanted to become an actress like her elder sisters she settled with her family life and entered film scene only after marriage and two children. Her passion to acting and dancing encouraged her to join films. She watched with curiosity how crowd desires to see film stars dancing on stage. That’s one reason why she too decided to join films.  

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Updated: April 24, 2016

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