Kaviyoor Ponnamma

Kaviyoor Ponnamma

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Kaviyoor Ponnamma Profile

  • Name:
  • Kaviyoor Ponnamma
  • Born:
  • September 10, 1945

Kaviyoor Ponnamma Biography

Kaviyoor Ponnamma is one among the prominent names of Malayalam film industry. She is the most versatile personality of Malayalam known for portraying mother’s role. Among all heroes, she has acted as mother of Mohan Lal most and there is a wide belief that she is Mohan Lal’s real mother, though not true. Thilakan - Kaviyoor Ponnamma – Mohan Lal has become an iconic sketch of a Malayalam family. She was married to producer Maniswami and had a daughter in this wed lock. But due to personal differences, they split soon after the birth of their child. Their daughter, Bindu lived with her and now she has married and got settled in US.

 

Ponnamma is the name of this great actress and Kaviyur is her native place. She started acting in dramas at an age of 14 and her first drama was Mooladhanam of Thoppil Bhasi. She debut movies during late 50’s with the movie, Mariakutty. But from the early career itself she got mother roles only and when it became successful, she became type casted as a mother.  She has acted as mother of actor Satyan and Prem Naseer who were much older than her. She was below 20, when she acted as 50 year old Satyan’s mother in Rosy.

 

When she became well known as ‘mother’, ‘amma’ or ‘tharavaattamma’, she began to enjoy that status as well. Though she tried to experiment herself with villain roles, no director was willing to give her such a role. She has acted in more than 1000 movies till now, perhaps it may be the record of maximum movies in mother’s role.

 

She has won Kerala state awards for second best actress four times – in 1971 for various films, in 1972 for Theertha yatra, in 1973 for various films and in 1994, for Thenmavil kombathu. Her big movies along with Mohan Lal include – Kireedam, Spadikam, Ividam Swargamanu, Vismayathumbathu, Vietnam colony, Bharatham, Dhanam, His highness Abdulla, Ulladakkam, Dasaratham, Irupatham nuttandu, Baba kalyani, Twenty 20, Vadakkum Nathan, natturajavu, Maampazhakkaalam, Thenmavil kombathu and Kaakka kuyil.   

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