Devayani

Devayani (born 22 June 1974) is an Indian actress known for her works primarily in Tamil, in addition to Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali films and Television.She received Tamilnadu state award for best actress Kadhal Kottai ,suryavamsam, Bharathi. She was honoured by Kalaimamani award in 2000. She won ITFA award for Alagi movie.She won Tamilnadu state award best actress for Kolangal serial.She won twice time Sun tv award and a Zee Tamil award for serials.

She won various accolades for her contribution to cinema and TV.

She won twice time lifetime achievement award.

She is one of the successful actress in 90s.

She was nominated for six times filmfare awards.In 2022 Galata Tamil channel honoured decade of the 90s herione.

Her notable movies Kinnaripuzhayoram ,Thotta Chinungi,Achan Rajavu Appan Jethavu, Kalloori Vaasal,Kadhal Kottai,Kaathil Oru Kinnaram,Kinnam katta kalan,Surya Vamsam,Periya Idathu Mappillai,Three Men Army,Suswagatham ,Marumalarchi,Ninaithen Vandhai,En Uyir Nee Thaane,Thodarum,Kummi Paattu, Nee Varuvai Ena,Paattali,Vallarasu,Bharathi,Thenali,Friends,Vinnukum Mannukum,En Purushan Kuzhandhai Maadhiri,Aanandham,Alagi,Panchathantiram,Thenkasi Pattanam,Balettan,Naran,Janatha Garage ,Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava,Love Story.

Devayani was born on 22 June 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra to a Konkani father from Mangalore, Karnataka and a Tamil mother.

She has two younger brothers Nakkhul and Mayur.

The former is working as an actor and singer in the Tamil film industry, while the latter would also make his acting debut in an upcoming film.

She dated director Rajakumaran, with whom she had worked on a few films for several years.

Both their parents did not approve of their relationship, which led the couple to elope, and marry privately on 9 April 2001.

They have two daughters, Iniya and Priyanka.

Devayani began her career as Koyal in the Hindi film Koyal, which was later cancelled during its production stage.

She appeared in a Bengali film, Shaat Ponchomi.

She also acted in a Marathi film before debuting in the South with lead roles in Malayalam films.

Kinnaripuzhayoram is the first film in Malayalam.

Her first movie in tamil is Aasai movie but she unable do that movie.

Next year she did Tamil and Telugu film also.

She started as a glam doll, she has done item number in a Tamil movie called Sivashakthi.

Her earliest films were released in the early and middle 90's including Kadhal Kottai.

She worked with top directors like Agathiyan, Vikraman, Bhimanei srinivasan rao, K.ragavendra rao, Dinesh babu, K.S ravikumar, Gana rajasekar, Vasanth, Rama narayana, Siddque, Lingusamy, Thangarbachan, P.vasu(screen sharing in two movies), V.V Vinayak, sundar.c, S.j Surya, Joshi, T.k Rajeev Kumar, Koratala Siva, Trivakram srinivas, Krish jagarlamudi, Sekar kamula.

From 2003-2009 Devayani acted in the teleserial Kolangal as Abinaya, for 1,533 episodes on Sun TV.

It was later dubbed into Malayalam also in the same name on Surya TV.

In the late 2010s she was a judge on a reality show on Mazhavil Manorama titled Ugram Ujwalam.

In 2021 she acted in Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal, a Tamil serial of Zee Tamil.