Kalyani Priyadarshan

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Kalyani Priyadarshan (born 5 April 1993) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films. Kalyani is a recipient of one Filmfare Award South, one Kerala Film Critics Association Award and four SIIMA Awards. Born to filmmaker Priyadarshan and actress Lissy, Kalyani started her career as an assistant production designer. She made her acting debut in the Telugu film Hello (2017), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South. She then expanded to Tamil films with Hero (2019), and Malayalam films with Varane Avashyamund (2020). Kalyani went into star in commercial successes: Chitralahari (2019), Maanaadu (2021), Hridayam (2022), Bro Daddy (2022) and Thallumaala (2022). She received further recognition with Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (2025), which became the second highest grossing Malayalam film of all time and one of the highest grossing female-led Indian film.

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