Sukumari
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Sukumari (6 October 1940 – 26 March 2013) was an Indian actress best known for her works in Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning more than five decades, she appeared in more than 2,500 films predominantly in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, along with a few Hindi and one each in Sinhala, French, Italian, Bengali, Tulu, English and Kannada films. Sukumari began acting at the age of 10. In 2003, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions toward the arts. She won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Tamil film Namma Grama
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- 19
Top works
- Rabīndrakabitāẏa mr̥tyu
- Bhārata o Bhāratatattva
- Apasaṃskr̥ti ?
- Bede saṃśaẏa o nāstikya
- Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit literature
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Curcumin attenuates cerebral edema following traumatic brain injury in mice: a possible role for aquaporin‐4?
· 2010 · cited 124x
- TSPO: An Evolutionarily Conserved Protein with Elusive Functions
· 2018 · cited 90x
- Delayed reduction in hippocampal postsynaptic density protein-95 expression temporally correlates with cognitive dysfunction following controlled cortical impact in mice
· 2010 · cited 88x
- Augmented expression of TSPO after intracerebral hemorrhage: a role in inflammation?
· 2016 · cited 85x
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Sukumari
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- Sukumari_at_kollam.JPG
- Person.birth_place
- Nagercoil, Travancore, British India(present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
- Person.death_place
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Person.yearsactive
- 1946–2013
- Person.works
- Partial list
- Person.children
- 1
- Person.relations
- Travancore family
- Person.awards
- See below
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Early life
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- Death
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Sukumari (6 October 1940 – 26 March 2013) was an Indian actress best known for her works in Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning more than five decades, she appeared in more than 2,500 films predominantly in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, along with a few Hindi and one each in Sinhala, French, Italian, Bengali, Tulu, English and Kannada films. Sukumari began acting at the age of 10. In 2003, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions toward the arts. She won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Tamil film Namma Gramam (2010). Sukumari died on 26 March 2013 in Chennai, following a heart attack.
==Early life== Sukumari was born on 6 October 1940 in Nagercoil, Travancore (currently in Tamil Nadu), to Malayali parents Madhavan Nair (a bank manager) and Sathyabhama Amma of Tharishuthala Valia Veedu in Kalkulam (in present-day Kanyakumari District). Sathyabhama Amma was the niece of Narayani Pillai Kunjamma, a famous beauty who spurned the king in favour of marrying the aristocratic landowner Kesava Pillai of Kandamath Through her cousin, Ambika Sukumaran, she is related to the Travancore Royal Family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukumari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.