Kaveri, also known as Kalyani, is an Indian Malayali film actress and film producer, who works in the South Indian film industries. Making her debut as a child artist in the 1986 Malayalam film Ammanam Kili, she appeared in several Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada-language films. After essaying supporting roles in Malayalam and Tamil-language films, she enacted female lead roles in several Telugu-language films. She has won the Nandi Award for Best Actress

Nandi Award for Best Actress

The Nandi Award for Best Actress winners:-See also:* Nandi Awards* Cinema of Andhra Pradesh...

 for her performance in Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru (2002). She is perhaps best known for her appearances and critically acclaimed performances in films such as Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum, Samudhiram

Samudhiram

Samuthiram is a 2001 Tamil film written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar, starring Sarath Kumar, Murali, Manoj Bharathiraja, Kaveri, Abhirami, Sindhu Menon and Monal. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Sabesh-Murali...

, Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru, Kabaddi Kabaddi and Kasi

Kasi (film)

Kasi is a 2001 Tamil drama film directed Vinayan which is the remake of the director's 1999 Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum. The film features Vikram in the title role of a blind young villager with Malayali actresses Kavya Madhavan and Kaveri, reprising her role she played in...

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Personal life

During the making of the film Pedha Babu, Kaveri and the film's director Suryakiran fell in love with each other. With the permission and acceptance of both their families, they got married on 1 May 2005. Suryakiran is the elder brother of the actress Sujitha.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1986	Ammanam Kili		Malayalam Malayalam language Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...
1986	Kakkothikkavile Appooppan Thaadikal Kakkothikkavile Appooppan Thaadikal Kakkothikkavile Appooppan Thaadikal is a 1988 Malayalam film directed by Kamal. The film is heroine-oriented, in which Revathi and Ambika play the lead roles.-Plot:...		Malayalam Malayalam language Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...
1995	Oru Abhibhashakante Case Diary Oru Abhibhashakante Case Diary Oru Abhibhashakante Case Diary is a 1995 Malayalam movie about a lawyer who seeks justice for a teenage girl who was raped and murdered.-Synopsis:...	Seetha	Malayalam
1996	Udyanapalakan	Indu	Malayalam
1997	Guru Guru (1997 film) Guru is a Malayalam-language film directed by Rajiv Anchal. Mohanlal played the lead role in the film. Nedumudi Venu, Srinivasan, Suresh Gopi, Sithara, Kaveri and Sreelakshmi star in supporting roles....	Syamanthaka	Malayalam
	Kilukil Pambaram		Malayalam
	Manasam	Maya	Malayalam
1998	Grama Panchayath		Malayalam
1999	Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum is a 1999 Malayalam film directed by Vinayan. The film features Kalabhavan Mani, Kaveri, Praveena and Saikumar in the lead roles. It was produced by Kabeer, Latheef and Vindhyan under the banner of Thriveni Productions and has been distributed by Sargam Speed...	Lakshmi	Malayalam
	Thachiledathu Chundan Thachiledathu Chundan Thachiledathu Chundan is a 1999 Malayalam action-drama film directed by Shajoon Karyal, produced by Thampi Kannanthanam, and starring Mammootty, Nandini, Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Captain Raju and Kaveri...	Indhu	Malayalam
	Sambrama		Kannda Kannada language Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...
	Chaithrada Chiguru		Kannada
2000	Sparsam		Malayalam
	Kannukkul Nilavu Kannukkul Nilavu Kannukkul Nilavu is a 2000 Indian Tamil language film starring Vijay, Raghuvaran, Srividya, Kaveri and Shalini.-Plot:Gautham Prabhakar meets Dr.Rajasekhar , a psychologist, his daughter Hema and her friends, Surya & Chandru . He has memories of a girl named Gayathri , who he met briefly and...	Gayathri	Tamil Tamil language Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
	Appu		Tamil
	Dada Sahib Dada Sahib Dada Sahib is a 2000 Malayalam film co-written and directed by Vinayan and starring Mammootty in the dual title roles. He played the roles of Dada Sahib, an old freedom fighter and Abubacker, an army man and patriot.-Plot:...	Ayisha	Malayalam
2001	Ninaikkatha Naalillai	Kausalya	Tamil
	Samudhiram Samudhiram Samuthiram is a 2001 Tamil film written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar, starring Sarath Kumar, Murali, Manoj Bharathiraja, Kaveri, Abhirami, Sindhu Menon and Monal. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Sabesh-Murali...	Rajamani	Tamil
2002	Seshu Seshu Seshu is a 2002 Indian Telugu film starring Dr. Rajasekhar in the lead role, directed by his wife Jeevitha Rajasekhar. It is a remake of the 1999 Tamil film Sethu, directed by Bala, starring Vikram as the protagonist. The film, starring Kaveri, Jyoti Lakshmi, Ganesh and Nassar in supporting roles,...		Telugu Telugu language Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
	Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru	Swathi	Telugu	Winner, Nandi Award for Best Actress Nandi Award for Best Actress The Nandi Award for Best Actress winners:-See also:* Nandi Awards* Cinema of Andhra Pradesh...
2003	Pellamtho Panenti	Kalyani	Telugu
	Vasantham Vasantham For the Singaporean television channel please see:MediaCorp VasanthamVasantham is a Tollywood film directed by Vikraman and released on July 11, 2003. It stars Venkatesh, Arti Agarwal, and Kalyani.- Plot :...	Julie	Telugu
	Kabaddi Kabaddi	Kaveri	Telugu
	Punnagai Poove Punnagai Poove Not in the soundtrackOther music featured in the film include:# "Idhu Innaisaiya" - sung by Hema Sardesai & Yuvan Shankar Raja, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja...	Nithya	Tamil
	Kasi Kasi (film) Kasi is a 2001 Tamil drama film directed Vinayan which is the remake of the director's 1999 Malayalam film Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum. The film features Vikram in the title role of a blind young villager with Malayali actresses Kavya Madhavan and Kaveri, reprising her role she played in...	Kaveri	Tamil
	Thillana Thillana Thillana Thillana Thillana Thillana is a 2003 Malayalam film directed by T. S. Saji. It stars Krishna, Jomol and Kaveri in the lead roles. Suresh Gopi and Kunchacko Boban appear in guest roles in the movie....	Vandana	Malayalam
	Dongodu Dongodu Dongodu is a 2003 Telugu language comedy movie produced by Bheemineni Rushita Sai under Goodwill Cinema banner. This Movie is remake of Malayam movie Meesa Madhavan. The film features Ravi Teja and Kalyani in the lead roles. Music has been composed Vidya Sagar...	Rukhmini Naidu	Telugu
2004	Letha Manasulu	Dhanalakshmi	Telugu
	Pedhababu	Neelaveni	Telugu
	Ramakrishna		Kannada
	Nothing But Life Nothing But Life Nothing But Life is a 2004 bilingual English and Malayalam film directed by Rajiv Anchal for an Indian production house dealing with matters of health. The experimental film featured actors R. Madhavan, Neha Pandse, Kaveri, Nassar and Sreenivasan....	Vandana	English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
2005	Pandhem	Seeta	Telugu
	Kannadi Pookal Kannadi Pookal Kannadi Pookal is a South Indian Tamil film released in 2005. It is a remake of malayalam film Achaneyanenikkishtam which inturn was inspired from a real-life incident in Kerala.-Plot:...	Meera Sakthivel	Tamil
	Sravanamasam	Kavita Reddy	Telugu
2006	Hope	Pooja Rao	Telugu
2007	Operation Duryodhana Operation Duryodhana (film) Operation Duryodhana is a Telugu political movie, where story, dislogues, screenplay & direction was done by Posani Krishna Murali. It starred Meka Srikanth. Political satires: The scenes involving political satires in the film are really good...		Telugu
	Munna Munna (film) Munna is a 2007 Tollywood) action film directed by Vamsi Paidipally and produced by Dil Raju, who produced four blockbusters in a row: Dil, Arya, Bhadra, and Bommarillu. Current sensation Ileana D'Cruz was cast opposite Prabhas for the first time. The film was postponed several times due to...		Telugu
	Kangaroo Kangaroo (2007 film) Kangaroo is a 2007 Malayalam film made in India, by Raj Babu starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Kavya Madhavan.-Plot:Josekutty is a hard-working auto rickshaw driver from a good family. Josekutty falls in love with Jansi, whose sister Nancy is an unwed mother of a boy...	Nancy	Malayalam
	Lakshyam Lakshyam Lakshyam is a 2007 Telugu film which stars Gopichand, Anushka, and Jagapati Babu. This film marked the debut of Srivas as director. It was produced by Nallamalupu Srinivas under Lakshmi Narasimha Productions banner...		Telugu
2008	Raksha	Aarthi Rajeev	Telugu
2009	Chapter 6		Telugu	Filming Also producer
2010	Durga		Telugu	Filming
	Najarana		Telugu	Filming
	Janakan Janakan (film) Janakan is a Malayalam film starring Mohanlal & Suresh Gopi, directed by Sanjeev N. R. The film was written by S. N. Swami. It was released on April 8, 2010 in Kerala and is distributed by Maxlab Entertainments.- Plot :...	Nirmala Viswanathan	Malayalam	Semi Hit

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