Jomol

Gowri Chandrasekhara Pillai
Born	Joma John, stage name Jomol (1981-10-04) 4 October 1981 Koodathayi, Thiruvambady.
Occupation	Film actress
Years active	1989-2003
Spouse(s)	Chandrasekhara Pillai
Children	Aarya, Aarja

Jomol (Gowri) is a popular film actress in Malayalam cinema.^[1]

Biography

Gowri Chandrasekhara Pillai (born Jomol) was born to K. A.John^[2] in Koodathayi near Thiruvambady in Kozhikode district. Her father was an entrepreneur and her mother a nurse in Kuwait. She is an Indian actress who appeared in Malayalam films. She has had major roles in films like Niram, Piriyadha Varam Vendum and Deepasthambham Mahascharyam.In 1997, she won the Kerala State Film Award for best actress for her role in Ennu Swantham Janakikutty and also a special jury mention from the National Film Awards.

Personal life

Jomol married Chandraskehar Pillai in 2003.

Awards

National Film Awards

1998: Special jury Mention - Ennu Swantham Janakikutty

Kerala State Film Awards

1998:Best Actress - Ennu Swantham Janakikutty

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
2007	Raakilipattu	Savithri
2003	Thillana Thillana	Malavika
2002	Puthooramputhri Unniyarcha	Kanni
2002	Thilakam	Geetha
2001	Piriyadha Varam Vendum	Sneha
2000	Sayahnam
2000	Melevaryathe Malakhakkuttikal	Gopika
2000	Snegithiye	Savithri
2000	Arayannangalude Veedu	Suja
1999	Deepasthambham Mahascharyam	Indu
1999	Ustaad	Yousuf Shahh's sister
1999	Niram	Varsha
1998	Chitrashalabham	Deepa
1998	Ennu Swantham Janakikutty	Janakikutty
1998	Mayilpeelikkavu	Gayathri/Kuttimani
1998	Punjabi House	Sujatha
1998	Sneham	Manikutty
1992	My Dear Muthachan	Maya
1989	Anagha	Meera
1989	Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha	Young Unniyarcha

Television serial

Achante Makkal (Surya TV)

References

National Film Award—Special Jury Award (Feature Film)

1978–1980

No Award (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

Special Mention	Mrinal Sen and Muzaffar Ali (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

1981–2000

Satyajit Ray (1981) No Award (1982) Mankada Ravi Varma (1983) T. S. Ranga (1984) Sudha Chandran (1985) John Abraham (1986) M. B. Sreenivasan (1987) Ashok Ahuja (1988) Amitabh Chakraborty (1989) Pankaj Kapur, Sunny Deol and Jayabharathi (1990) Soumitra Chatterjee (1991) Sivaji Ganesan and Ketan Mehta (1992) Shashi Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (1993) Radhu Karmakar and Shaji N. Karun (1994) Shyam Benegal (1995) Amol Palekar and Kirron Kher (1996) Jaimala (1997) Drishyakavya and Ashoke Viswanathan (1998) Kalabhavan Mani (1999) Soumitra Chatterjee (2000)

Special Mention	No Award (1981) No Award (1982) Kumar Shahani (1983) No Award (1984) No Award (1985) Sandip Ray (1986) No Award (1987) Aamir Khan (1988) Anupam Kher and Mohanlal (1989) Anoubham Kiranmala (1990) Mamata Shankar and Raveendran (1991) Sibaprasad Sen (1992) Tahir Hussain, Mahesh Bhatt, Jugal Debata and Susant Misra (1993) Mahesh Mahadevan, Bishnu Kharghoria and S. Kumar (1994) Uttara Baokar, Rohini and Benaf Dadachandji (1995) Dolon Roy and Bhagirathee (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna and Jomol (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao, Prakash Raj and Manju Warrier (1998) Mohan Joshi, Manju Borah and Kavitha Lankesh (1999) No Award (2000)

2001–present

Janaki Vishwanathan (2001) Prakash Raj (2002) Manoj Bajpai, Roopkatha and Goutam Halder (2003) J. Phillip (2004) Anupam Kher (2005) Vishal Bhardwaj (2006) Anil Kapoor and Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) NFDC and K. M. Madhusudhanan (2008) A. Sreekar Prasad (2009) Bindiya Khanolkar, Sachin Khanolkar and Anant Mahadevan (2010) Anjan Dutt (2011) Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2012) Viva In En, Mahesh Limaye, Future East Film Pvt Ltd and Ashim Ahluwalia (2013)

Special Mention	Dilip Doley and Narayan Seal (2001) Jyothirmayi (2002) H. G. Dattatreya and Nedumudi Venu (2003) Gurdas Maan and Pradeep Nair (2004) No Award (2005) Thilakan and Prosenjit Chatterjee (2006) No Award (2007) No Award (2008) Padmapriya Janakiraman (2009) K. Shivaram Karanth and V. I. S. Jayabalan (2010) Mallika and Sherrey (2011) Lal, H. G. Dattatreya, Bishnu Kharghoria, Parineeti Chopra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Hansraj Jagtap and Thilakan (2012) Gauri Gadgil, Sanjana Rai and Anjali Patil (2013) Bhaurao Karhade, Musthafa, Palomi Ghosh, Parth Bhalerao (2014)

Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress

1969–1970	Sheela (1969) Sharada (1970)

1971–1980	Sheela (1971) Jayabharathi (1972) Jayabharathi (1973) Lakshmi (1974) Rani Chandra (1975) Sheela (1976) Santhakumari (1977) Shoba (1978) Srividya (1979) Poornima Bhagyaraj (1980)

1981–1900	Jalaja (1981) Madhavi (1982) Srividya (1983) Seema (1984) Seema (1985) Shari (1986) Suhasini Maniratnam (1987) Anju (1988) Urvashi (1989) Urvashi (1990)

1991–2000	Urvashi (1991) Srividya (1992) Shobana (1993) Shanthi Krishna (1994) Urvashi (1995) Manju Warrier (1996) Jomol (1997) Sangita (1998) Samyuktha Varma (1999) Samyuktha Varma (2000)

2001–2010	Suhasini Maniratnam (2001) Navya Nair (2002) Meera Jasmine (2003) Kavya Madhavan and Geethu Mohandas (2004) Navya Nair (2005) Urvashi (2006) Meera Jasmine (2007) Priyanka Nair (2008) Shweta Menon (2009) Kavya Madhavan (2010)

2011–present	Shweta Menon (2011) Rima Kallingal (2012) Ann Augustine (2013) Nazriya Nazim (2014)

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