Anandavally

Anandavally
Born	(1952-01-14) 14 January 1952 Quilon, Kerala, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Dubbing artist, actress, radio announcer
Years active	1969–present

Anandavally C. R. (born 14 January 1952) is a Malayalam film actress and dubbing artist. She is an active dubbing artist in the Malayalam film industry.^[1]

Early Life

Anandavally born into an Agricultural family at Veliyam, Quilon District, Kerala, India. She attended Schooling in "Kaiyela School" - Veliyam, where she began acting in school plays and later started story telling performance (Kadhaprasangam).

Career

Drama artist

Anandavally used to sing for dramas even while a teenager. But unexpectedly, her acting skills were put to test in front of a large audience during for the drama "Chithalu Kayariya Bhoomi" in 1969. Then she started performing in several dramas of "KPAC", "Kalidasa Kalakendram", Deshabhimani Theaters-Attingal, Kerala Theaters-Kottayam and Kayamkulam Peoples Theaters.

Radio

She also worked as announcer in All India Radio.

Film actress

Anandavally

Anandavally entered the film industry through the film "Kadu" and went on to act in below given films. She became interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry following a minor role in various Malayalam films, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue a dubbing artist career.

Dubbing artist

In 1973, she debuted as a dubbing artist and gave sound for actress Rajasri in the film Devi Kanyakumari. Manjil Virinja Pookkal Malayalam film dubbed for Poornima Jayaram was the break through. Thereafter, Anandavally have not looked back. As of now she has dubbed for numerous Malayalam films and is still active. She gave her voice for several leading heroines, the list as Geetha, Silksmitha, Sumalatha, Madhavi, Menaka, Ambika, Urvasi, Jayapradha, Karthika, Parvathy, Gauthami, Suhasini, Sobhana, Sukanya, Sarada, Saritha, Suchitra, Bangalore Bharathi, Bhanupriya, Rekha, Revathi, Renjini, Mohini, Nanditha Bose, Vinayaprasad, Kanaka, Khushboo, Urmila Unni, Unni Mary, Santhikrishna and so on. She won a Kerala State Award for the Malayalam film Aadharam dubbed for actress Geetha. Anandavally is still active in dubbing through films and serials.

Filmography

Actress

Dubbing artist

Awards

References

1. ↑ Lal, Athul. "Invisible Nightingale". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2014-02-25. 

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