Jalaja is an Indian actress in

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

films who was active during the 1970s and 1980s. She had won

Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress The Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress is an honour presented annually at the Kerala State Film Awards of India since 1969 to an actress for the best performance within the Malayalam film industry. Until 1997, the awards were managed direct ...

and

Filmfare Award for Best Actress The Filmfare Award for Best Actress is given by ''Filmfare'' as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Bollywood, Hindi films, to recognise the female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first gi ...

in 1981 for the movie

Venal Venality is a vice associated with being bribeable or willing to sell one's services or power, especially when people are intended to act in a decent way instead. In its most recognizable form, venality causes people to lie and steal for their own ...

directed by

Lenin Rajendran Lenin Rajendran ( ml, ലെനിൻ രാജേന്ദ്രൻ) was an Indian film director and screenwriter who worked in Malayalam cinema. He served as the Chairman of Kerala State Film Development Corporation from 2016 to January 2019 ...

Personal life

She was born on 13 December 1961 to a Professor Thakazhiyil Vasudevan Pillai and Saraswathiyamma in

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. She studied there till her fourth grade and then migrated to India, due to Civil war in

. She had her primary education from

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, Madras, Ambalappuzha English Medium School and her Pre-degree from St. Joseph College, Alappuzha. She did her bachelor's degree and Masters in English Literature from Women's college

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

. She is married to Prakash Nair since 3 September 1993 & has settled in Bahrain after her marriage. They have a daughter Devi. She was the jury member for Kerala state film awards 2014.

Awards

Kerala State Film Awards The Kerala State Film Awards are the film awards for a motion picture made in Kerala. The awards started in 1969 by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala and since 1998 the awards have been bestowed by Kerala State Cha ...

: * 1981

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress aw ...

- Venal * 1981

- Venal

Filmography

Malayalam

Tamil

Television serials

*Indraneelam ( Surya TV) *

Verukal ''Verukal'' ( en, Roots) is a Malayalam semi-autobiographical novel written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan in 1966. It is widely credited as one of his best works. It won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967. Plot summary ''Verukal'' tells t ...

(

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) as Amlu - based on

Malayattoor Ramakrishnan K. V. Ramakrishna Iyer, better known by his pen name, Malayattoor Ramakrishnan (27 May 1927 – 27 December 1997), was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, cartoonist, lawyer, judicial magistrate, and Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of ...

's Novel Directed by T.N. Gopakumar *Ammuvukku Kalyanam as Gayathri ( DD Tamil) - Tamil Serial

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jalaja Living people Actresses from Kerala Filmfare Awards South winners Kerala State Film Award winners 20th-century Indian actresses Actresses in Malayalam cinema Indian film actresses 1961 births Actresses in Tamil cinema Indian television actresses Actresses in Malayalam television Actresses in Tamil television