Kanaka is a former Indian actress.
Personal life
Kanaka is the daughter of Tamil actress
Devika
Devika Devadoss (born Prameela Devi) (25 April 1943 – 2 May 2002) was an Indian actress who worked in Tamil, Telugu with few Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi film industry. She was a popular lead actress in the 1960s.
Devika is the grand daughter ...
. She is also the great-granddaughter of
Telugu cinema
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's first
sound film
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's producer
Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu
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.
Career
She started her career as a heroine in the Tamil movie ''
Karagatakaran'', directed by
Gangai Amaran
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Personal life
Gangai Amaran was born in Pannaipuram in Theni district, Tamil Nadu in December 1947, as the youngest son of Daniel Ram ...
, a blockbuster movie which ran more than a year.
Kanaka acted in many Tamil movies, including ''
Periya Veetu Pannakkaran'' (1990), ''
Athisaya Piravi
''Athisaya Piravi'' () is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language fantasy comedy film directed by S. P. Muthuraman and written by Panchu Arunachalam. It is a remake of the Telugu film '' Yamudiki Mogudu'' (1988). The film stars Rajinikanth, Kanaka, and ...
'' (1990), ''
Samundi
''Samundi'' is a 1992 Tamil-language action film directed by Manoj Kumar. The film stars R. Sarathkumar and Kanaka. The film, produced by Mogannadarajan and V. Shanmugam, had musical score by Deva and was released on 18 September 1992.
Plot ...
'' (1992), ''
Periya Kudumbam
''Periya Kudumbam'' () is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The film stars Prabhu, Kanaka and Vineetha, with Manorama, Vijayakumar, Lakshmi, Chandrasekhar, Chithra, Goundamani and Senthil in supporting ro ...
'' (1995) and ''
Viralukketha Veekkam
''Viralukketha Veekkam'' () is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film directed by V. Sekhar. The film stars Livingston, Vadivelu, Vivek, Khushbu, Kovai Sarala and Kanaka. The film, produced by S. S. Durairaju and K. Parthiban, had mu ...
'' (1999). She also starred in a few
Telugu
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*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
and
Malayalam
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movies with major stars like
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,
Mammootty
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and
Mohanlal
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. She has acted in more than 50 films in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu in a span of 10 years. Her last Tamil film was ''
Sillunu Oru Kaadhal
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'' (2006).
Filmography
References
External links
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Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Living people
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Indian film actresses
Actresses from Chennai
20th-century Indian actresses
Actresses in Telugu cinema
21st-century Indian actresses
1973 births
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