Kausalya (actress)

Kausalya (actress)

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Kausalya (actress) Profile

  • Name:
  • Kausalya (actress)
  • Other Name:
  • Nandini, Kousalya
  • Born:
  • December 30, 1979

Kausalya (actress) Biography

Nandini – also known as Kausalya is an actress of South Indian movies. She was most popular during the latter half of 90’s and most known for portraying ‘Angry young lady’. Her most noted Malayalam movies are Kamal’s Ayaal kathayezhuthukayaanu, Lelam, Narayanathu thampuran, Karumadikuttan, Thachledathu chundan and Sundarapurushan in Malayalam.  Her most successful Tamil movies are Nerukku Ner, Priyamudan, Pooveli and Vanathai Pola. She did supporting roles in Thirumalai and Santosh Subramaniam. She has acted in a few Kannada and Telugu movies as well. She has won Filmfare Best Actress Award (Tamil) for Pooveli in the year 1998. Among all her movies of all languages, her roles in Ayaal kathayezhuthukayaanu and Karumadikuttan as an angry young woman remain the most memorable ones. It’s often told that no other actress can handle both these roles more perfectly than Nandini and both these movies belong to her only. Though Mohanlal was the leading actor of Ayaal kathayezhuthukayaanu, it was Nandini’s performance which got quick attention. Her portrayal of IAS officer was something that was never seen on screen before.

 

Though she has not worked in plenty of movies in Malayalam, it’s for the few powerful characters she did she is remembered always among the top actresses of late 90’s. She is one among those lucky stars who got opportunity to work with all the superstars and leading of Malayalam, except Dileep.  Vajram and Thachiledathu chundan opposite Mammootty, Ayaal kathayezhuthukayaanu opposite Mohanlal, Lelam and Sundara purushan opposite Suresh Gopi and Naranathu Thampuran opposite Jayaram. Karumadikuttan opposite Kalabhavan Mani also needs special mention.

 

Nandini debut movie world with Malayalam film April 19 (1996), directed by Balachandra Menon.  Kaalamellam Kadhal Vaazhga released in 1997 was her debut Tamil movie. After that she accepted more roles in Tamil than Malayalam. In between she accepted the roles opposite big stars of Malayalam, which gave her a few memorable characters. A few of her Tamil movies as leading star include - Nerukku Ner, Sollamale, Sandhitha Velai, James Pandu, Priyamudan, Eazhaiyin Sirippil, Ilaiyavan, Kunguma Pottu Gounder, Manadhai Thirudivittai, Thai Porandhachu, Thaali Kaatha Kaliamman, Kutty, Devan, Raja Kaliamman, Jolly, Pooveli, Unnudan, Aasaiyil Oru Kaditham and Vaanathaippola.

 

A few of her Kannada movies are - Re Swalpa Barteera, Gandhi Nagara, Badri and Ghautham. She has also acted in Telugu movies - Viyyalavari Kayyalu, Mahanandi, Alludu Garu Vacharu, Gowri and Panchadara Chilaka. Apart from working in movies, she has also worked in successful television serial - Manaivi which aired 436 episodes on Sun TV.

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Updated: December 27, 2017

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