T. R. Omana

T. R. Omana

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T. R. Omana is a popular character artist and dubbing artist of Malayalam cinema. Known for portraying mother and grandmother roles since early age, Omana is perhaps the artist of Malayalam cinema, who has portrayed maximum number of ‘mother’ roles. Yet in real life, she remained unmarried. She played the role of Prem nazir and Sathyan’s mother at a very young age in the 1960s, when she was only in her 20s. She entered film scene as a child artist in the year 1952 and has played the heroine’s role in Puthradharmam in 1965. She also appeared in Malayalam’s first comedy feature film – Viruthan Shanku. She has been a popular dubbing artist, who gave her voice to almost all Malayalam movies of lead actress Sharada. Omana is still active in film industry. 

She was born in Alappuzha. Premalekha was her debut movie as a child artist and she played child artist role in movies like Nalla Thanka, Sheriyo thetto, Chechi, Sasidharan etc in the early 1950s. Since then she has acted more than 500 movies. She has also been active in theatre world. Since school days she was interested in dance and drama and she started her career as a stage actress at a younger age. She is also a trained classical dancer who has done wide number of dance concerts. Bharatnatyam was not popular in Kerala in those days and she learnt and performed Kathakali and classical drama. She studied Kathakali from Kunjukurup Asan. She performed Poothana Mokhsham Kathakali on stage with many legends.

She was born in a rich family. Her father was a businessman. She lost her mother during her teens, while studying intermediate. After the death of her mother, her father didn’t give much care to business and his downfall was so rapid. For the same reason she couldn’t complete her studies. Her movie as heroine, Puthradharmam was not a big hit and she concentrated on amateur drama and dance concerts. It paved her way to movies.

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Updated: October 28, 2014

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