Devi S.

Devi
Born India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Actress, voice artist
Years active 1988-present

Devi is an Indian film actress and dubbing artist in Malayalam movies. She became popular through the main character Kunjipengal she played in Oru Kudayum Kunju Pengalum, a serial in Doordarshan. She has dubbed for around 500 movies and acted in more than 25 movies.[1] She received National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Narration / Voice Over in Non Feature Film Category in 2014 for Nithya Kalyani – Oru Mohiniyattam Patham.[2]

Personal life

She is born at Cherukodu Peyad, Thiruvananthapuram. She has a brother. She is married to Alwin, an engineer who is doing business now. The couple has a daughter, Athmaja.[3]

Awards

Career

She started her career as a child artist in Kadhasangamam, a serial directed by Vijayakrishnan. Later she acted in Oru Kudayum Kunju Pengalum, a serial in Doordarshan, in which grabbed the best child artist State Award in 1993. She also lent her voice for other children in films and serials. Minnaram, Swaroopam, Sammohanam, Swam, Thalolam, My Dear Kuttichathan, Johny are some of them.The Salute directed by the cameraman Azhagappan was the first film in which she gave voice for a heroin, When she was of 13 years old. She lent her voice to heroins like Padmapriya, Meena, Raai Laxmi, Roma Asrani, Gopika, Meghana Raj, Kavya Madhavan, Genelia, Kaniha, Bhavana etc. She had completed more than 100 films by now. Some of her notable films are Veruthe Oru Bharya for Gopika in Swantham Lekhakan, for Padmapriya in Kana Kanmani, Yes Your Honour and Poppins, for Meghana Raj in Beautiful, Namukku Parkkan, for Genelia in Urumi, for Lena in Traffic, for Meena in Drishyam and Katha Parayumpol, Kaniha in Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja etc. She is also a voice artist in All India Radio. Besides She gives voice for serial heroins like Aswathy (Amala) in Kumkumapoovu, Archana (Glory) in Manasaputhri, Rasana in Nandanam, Divya in Sthreedhanam,Seena Antony in Sarayu, Sujitha in Kanakkinavu, Harichandanam and Indira. she also gave voice for various cartoon characters in Jungle Book, a Malayalam Cartoon series, is one of her noted works. She has given voice for two characters simultaneously in serial Innale

Filmography

As an actress

As a Dubbing artist

Film Dubbed for
Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha Child character
Minnaram Child character
Swaroopam Child character
Sammohanam Child character
Swam Child character
Thalolam Child character
My Dear Kuttichathan Child character
Johny Child character
ChanthupottuGopika
PalunkuLakshmi Sharma
Yes Your HonourPadmapriya
Katha Parayumpol Meena
Veruthe Oru Bharya Gopika
Kerala Varma Pazhassi RajaKaniha
Swantham Lekhakan Gopika
Kana KanmaniPadmapriya
In Ghost House Inn Radhika
Happy Husbands Bhavana
Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram Dhanya Mary Varghese
Bombay March 12 Roma
TrafficLena
Urumi Genelia D'Souza
BeautifulMeghana Raj
Salt N' PepperMythili
PoppinsPadmapriya
Namukku ParkkanMeghana Raj
DrishyamMeena

Television career

Serial Dubbed for Character
KumkumapoovuAswathy Amala
Manasaputhri Archana Glory
Bhagyadevatha SruthilayaBhagyaleksmi
Chandanamazha Shalu KurianVarsha
NandanamRasana
Sarayu Seena Antony Sarayu
SthreedhanamDivya Divya
KanakkinavuSujitha
Harichandanam Sujitha Unnimaya
IndiraSujitha Indira
Makal Janaki
Innale Mother, daughter

References

  1. ↑ "Proile of Devi in Dubbing Artists Association for Film & Tv". daaft.in. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies/malayalam/543171/
  3. ↑ Shilu Gopinath (Dec 2013). "25ന്റെ തിളക്കത്തില്‍". malayalamemagazine.com. Retrieved 9 July 2014. zero width joiner character in |title= at position 20 (help)
  4. ↑ http://longlivecinema.com/62nd-national-film-awards-court-bags-best-feature-award/
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