Jayaram

Jayaram
Born	January 15, 1964 (1964-01-15) (age 44) Perumbavoor, Kerala,India
Years active	19
Spouse(s)	Parvathy

Jayaram is a famous Malayalam film actor, mimicry artist and an able chenda percussionist in Kerala, India. Jayaram been active in films since the 1980s. He is quite widely appreciated for his easiness in handling comedy, being the hero of the film. There was some criticism towards him being stereotyped in comic roles. Jayaram despite the criticism has managed to hold on to the top list of Malayalam film actors.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Awards 3 Trivia 4 Selected Filmography 5 Music Department 6 References

Biography

Early life

Jayaram Subramaniyam born in a family of tamil Iyer Brahmins in Perumbavoor, Kerala,completed his education from Sri Sankara College, Kaladi. When he was studying there, he won several awards in state level for mimicry. That made him to make the decision to make art as his profession.

Career

After college, he joined Kalabhavan, a well known professional mimicry troupe. He was spotted by the noted malayalam film director, Padmarajan who gave Jayaram his launching pad with the 1988 film Aparan. Padmarajan became his mentor in his film career till the former's death in January, 1991.

Within few years since his debut, He acted in several critically acclaimed films like Moonnampakkam (1988),Mazhavilkavadi (1989), Thooval Sparsham (1990), Keli (1991),Thooval Kottaram (1996), Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal(1999) and Sesham (2002). His association with directors Sathyan Anthikkad, Rajasenan created many commercilly successful movies.

He forayed into Tamil film industry as well, and was moderately successful there. A pick of Tamil films he did are Gokulam, Purushalakshanam, Priyanka, Kolangal, Murai Mamman and Pathini . His friendship with Kamal Haasan is also famous. His role as Dr. Kailash in Kamal Haasan starrer Thenali was well-appreciated.

Till date, he has done nearly 200 films.

Personal life

He is married to actress Parvathy who is no longer active in films. Their son Kalidas is a child film artist who has won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist|Best Child Artist in 2003 for his 2nd movie. They also have a daughter, Malavika.

Jayaram lives with his family in Chennai.

Awards

• Shortlisted for the National Film Award for best actor for his role in Sesham (Later) in 2002
• V. Shantaram Award for his performance in Shesham in 2002
• State Award for Second Best Actor & Special Jury Award for his performance in Swayamvarapandhal (2000)
• State Special Jury Award in 1996
• Sini Best Actor Award for Thooval Kottaram (1996).
• Film Fair Award for Thooval Kottaram (1996).
• Rottery Club Award for Thooval Kottaram (1996).

Trivia

• Jayaram is a well known aficionado of elephants. It is said that he can recognise an elephant if he had seen it anytime before.
• Jayaram is an able chenda percussionist. Jayaram reportedly said that he used to wake up at 4:30 AM and practice the instrument [1].
• Jayaram, who did nearly 200 films has never won a state or national award for best actor, but his son Kalidasan won both for best child artist with only 2 films to his credit.[2]

Selected Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Cast	Other notes
2008	Parthan Kanda Paralokam	Parthan	Sreedevika	Yet to release
2008	Novel		Sada	Flop
2008	Veruthe Oru Bharya	Sugunan	Gopika	Super Hit
2007	Sooryan	Suryan	Vimala Raman	Flop
2007	Anchil Oral Arjunan	Sudheendran	Samvrutha Sunil, Padmapriya	Flop
2006	Kanaka Simhasanam	Kasargode Kanakambaran	Karthika, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy	Flop
2006	Moonnamathoral	Chandra	Samvrutha Sunil, Jyothirmayi, Sherin	Flop
2006	Aanachandam	Krishnaprasad	Remya Nabeeshan	Below Average
2006	Madhuchandralekha	Madhavan	Urvashi, Mamta Mohandas	Above Average
2006	Paramasivan	Nair	Ajithkumar, Laila, Prakash Raj
2005	Sarkar Dada	Mukundan Menon	Navya Nair	Flop
2005	Pauran	Divakaran	Geethu Mohandas	Below Average
2005	Alice in Wonderland	Alby	Laya, Sandhya	Flop
2005	Finger Print	Vivek Varma	Gopika, Indrajith	Flop
2004	Amrutham	Gopinathan Nair	Padmapriya, Bhavana Balachandran	Flop
2004	Mayilattam	Devan, Pazhani	Rambha, Indraja	Super Hit
2004	Njaan Salperu Raman Kutty	Ramankutty	Gayatri Jayaram, Karthika	Flop
2003	Manassinakkare	Reji	Nayantara	Super Hit
2003	Ivar	Ragahva Menon	Bhavana Balachandran	Flop
2003	Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum	Vishwanathan	Jyothirmayi	Average
2003	Julie Ganapathi	Unknown	Ramya Krishnan
2002	Yathrakarude Sradhakku	Ramanujan	Soundarya	Hit
2002	Malayalimamanu Vanakkam	Anandakuttan	Roja, Prabhu Ganesan	Average
2002	Panchatanthiram	Nair	Kamal Hassan, Simran Bagga, Ramya Krishnan	Hit
2002	Sesham	Kaliyappan	Geethu Mohandas	Below Average
2001	One Man Show	Jayakrishnan	Samyuktha Varma	Super Hit
2001	Theerthadanam	Karunakaran		Flop
2001	Uthaman	Uthaman	Sangeetha	Flop
2001	Naranathu Thamburan	Thamburan	Nandini	Hit
2001	Sharja To Sharja	Nandagopalan Vishwanathan	Aishwarya	FLOP
2001	Vakkalathu Narayanankutty	Narayanankutty	Mukesh, Manya	Average
2000	Thenali	Dr. Kailash	Jyothika, Devayani, Kamal Hassan	Super Hit
2000	Daivathinte Makan	Sunny	Pooja Batra	Average
2000	Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal	Gopan	Kavya Madhavan, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy	Super Hit
2000	Millennium Stars	Sunny	Abhirami	FLOP
2000	Nadan Pennum Natupramaniyum		Samyuktha Varma	Average
2000	Swayamvarapandhal	Ramadasan	Samyuktha Varma	Average
1999	Friends	Aravindan	Mukesh, Meena, Divya Unni	Mega Hit. Remade into Tamil under same title
1999	Njangal Santhushtaranu	Sanjeevan I.P.S	Abhirami	Hit
1999	Pattabishekom	Mukundan	Mohini	Super Hit
1999	Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal	Roy K Thomas	Samyuktha Varma	Super Hit
1998	Ayushman Bhava	Sunny	Divya Unni	Flop
1998	Chitrashalabham	Devan	Jomol	Below Average
1998	Kaikudunna Nilavu	Vasudevan	Dileep, Ranjitha, Shalini Kumar	Average
1998]	Kottaram Veettile Apputtan	Apputtan	Indu	Hit]
1998	Kusruthi Kuruppu		Meena	Average
1998	Sneham		Jomol	Average. Won Critical Accolades
1998	Summer in Bethlahem	Dennis	Suresh Gopi, Manju Warrier, Sangeetha, Mayoori	Super Hit
1997	The Car	Sunil	Sree Lekshmi	Average
1997	Irattakuttikalude Achan		Manju Warrier	Hit
1997	Kadhanayakan	Ramanathan	Divya Unni	Hit
1997	Karunyam	Satheeshan	Divya Unni, Rahna Navas	Hit
1997	Kilukil Pambaram		Vani Vishwanathan	Hit
1997	Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu	Giri Menon	Biju Menon, Manju Warrier	Hit
1997	Superman	Hareendran	Shobana	Hit
1996	Aramana Veedum Anjoorekkarum		Shobana	Super Hit
1996	Dilliwala Rajakumaran	Appu	Manju Warrier	Average
1996	Kaliveedu	Mahesh Sivan	Manju Warrier, Vani Vishwanathan	Average
1996	Swapna Lokathe Balabhaskaran	Balabhaskaran	Dileep, Annie	Hit
1996	Thooval Kottaram	Mohanachandran Pothuval	Suganya, Manju Warrier	Super Hit
1995	Aadyathe Kanmani	Balachandran Unnithan	Sudharani	Super Hit
1995	Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava	Premachandran	Kasthuri, Sangeetha	Super Hit
1995	Kusruthikaatu	Nandagopal	Kanaka	Average
1995	Mangalam Veettil Manaseswari Gupta	Jayadevan	Vani Vishwanathan	Average
1995	Minnaminuginum Minnukettu	Hari	Shobana, Heera Rajgopal	Hit
1995	Puthukottyile Puthu Manavalan	Ganabhooshanam Girish Cochin	Annie	Hit
1995	Sreeragam	Venkiteswaran	Geetha
1995	Thumboli Kadappuram		Priya Raman
1995	Vrudhanmare Sookshikkuka	Vijay Krishnan	Dileep, Khusbhoo
1994	CID Unnikrishnan B.A., B.Ed.	Unnikrishnan	Chippy, Rohini	Hit
1994	Sudhinam		Madhavi
1994	Vadhu Doctoranu	Sidharthan	Nadiya Moidu	Hit
1993	Dhruvam	Veerasimha Mannadiyar	Mammootty	Mega Hit
1993	Aagneyam	Madhavan Kutty	Gouthami	Flop
1993	Bandhukkal Sathrukkal	Sajeevan	Mukesh, Rohini	Hit
1993	Customs Diary	Ananthakrishnan	Renjini	Hit
1993	Kavadiyattam	Unni	Suchitra	Flop
1993	Meleparambil Aanveedu	Harikrishen	Shobhana	Mega Hit
1993	Oru Kadankatha Pole	Ravindran	Geetha	Hit
1993	Paithrukam		Suresh Gopi	Hit
1993	Samagamam	Johnson	Rohini	below Average
1993	Vakkeel Vasudev	Venu	Sunitha	hit
1992	Aayushkalam	Aby Mathew	Madhoo	Hit
1992	Ayalathe Addeham	Premachandran	Gouthami	Hit

• Ezhara Ponnana (1992) .... Balan/Vikraman
  
• First Bell (1992) .... Pirappankodu Prahakaran
  
• Malootty (1992) .... Unnikrishnan | Hit
  
• My Dear Muthachan (1992) .... Parthasarathi
  
• Ootty Pattanam (1992) .... Pavithran
  
• Kanalkkattu (1991) | Hit
  
• Advaitham (1991) .... Vasu | Super Hit
  
• Bhoomika (1991) | Hit
  
• Chanchattam (1991) .... Mohan
  
• Ennum Nanmakal (1991)
  
• Ezhunnallathu (1991)
  
• Georgekutty C/O Georgekutty (1991) .... George Kutty | Super Hit
  
• Kadinjool Kalyanam (1991) .... Sudhakaran
  
• Kankettu (1991) .... Raju | Hit
  
• Keli (1991) .... Narayanankutty
  
• Kilukkampetti (1991) .... Prakash Menon | Hit
  
• Koodikazhca (1991) .... Sunny
  
• Mukha Chithram (1991) .... Mathukutty/Sethumadhavan/Vareechan
  
• Pookkalam Varavayi (1991) .... Nandan
  
• Sandesham (1991) .... Prakash | Hit
  
• Kuruppinte Kanakku Pustakom (1990) .... Shanthan | Average
  
• Maala Yogam (1990) .... Rameshan
  
• Marupuram (1990)
  
• Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam (1990) .... Ramachandran | Hit
  
• Nanma Niranjavan Srinivasan (1990)
  
• Pavakkoothu (1990)
  
• Radha Madhavam (1990)
  
• Randam Varavu (1990) .... Jayakumar
  
• Shubha Yathra (1990) | Hit
  
• Thalayanamanthram (1990) .... Mohanan
  
• Thooval Sparsam (1990) | Hit
  
• Varthamana Kalam (1990) .... Brahmadattan
  
• Ardham (1989) .... Janardanan
  
• Chakkikotha Chankaran (1989) .... Pradeep Thampi
  
• Innale (1989) .... Sarath Menon | Super Hit
  
• Jaathakam (1989) .... Madhavanunni
  
• Kaalal Pada (1989)
  
• Mazhavil Kavadi (1989) .... Velayudhankutty
  
• Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal (1989) .... Sivasankaran
  
• Puthiya Karukkal (1989) .... Vinod
  
• Swagatham (1989) | Hit
  
• Ulsavapittennu (1989) .... Rajan
  
• Unnikrishnante Adyathe Christmas (1989) .... Unnikrishnan
  
• Vachanam (1989)
  
• Varnam (1989) .... Haridas
  
• Aparan (1988)
  
• Dhwani (1988) .... Sabari | Super Hit
  
• Moonnam Pakkam (1988) .... Bhasi
  
• Ponn Muttyidunna Tharavu (1988) | Super Hit
  
• Witness (1988) .... Balagopalan
  
• Oothikachiya Ponnu (1981)
  

Music Department

• Kadhanayakan (1997) (playback singer)

References

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