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Has acted as Mohanlal's mother in nearly 50 Malayalam films. Has also acted as a mother to other notable actors such as Satyan, Prem Nazir, and Madhu.

Sister of actress Kaviyoor Renuka.

Malayalam film actress.

Won the Kerala State Award for Second Best Actress in 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1994 for various roles.

As a five-year-old, she learned music and used to sing in stage shows.

Often called as the Mother to all actors, she has acted as mother of almost all actors in her career panning over decades.

In 2017 she received the Good Knight Film and Business Awards, The Felicitation by Kerala State Film Awards and The Kausalya Vandanam programme Honour.

She started acting in dramas when she was 14 years old with Mooladhanam by Thoppil Bhasi. After five years, came her first movie Kudumbini, in which she did the title role of the mother of two kids.

She has also acted in TV serials and commercials and has playback singing credits in few films.

She began her career performing in theatre dramas before foraying into cinema.