Kalyani Natarajan

Kalyani Natarajan is an Indian actress who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. She played prominent roles in Saivam (2014), Pisaasu (2014) and Mahanubhavudu (2017).^{[citation needed]}

Kalyani Natarajan
Born	Kalyani
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2013–present
Spouse	Balakrishnan Natarajan[1]

Personal life and career

A Tamilian from Mumbai, Kalyani has a degree in English literature and worked as a teacher and consultant.^[2] She had an interest in theatre and acted in plays in Mumbai.^[3] While in Mumbai, she was part of several major drama troupes. Later, she began acting in commercials including a jewellery commercial with Trisha.^[1]

Her stage plays in Mumbai enabled her to get a role in Settai (2013), which was shot in Mumbai. In the same year, she played Imran Khan's sister-in-law in Dharma Productions' Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (2013). She was also cast as Sathyaraj's wife in A. L. Vijay's Thalaivaa (2013). However, she left the latter film.

She collaborated again with director A. L. Vijay for Saivam (2014), which was her first major break.^{[citation needed]} Kalyani had shot for 38 days in Karaikudi for the film.^[4][1] While she was in Chennai during the release of Saivam, she met director Mysskin and auditioned for a role in Pisaasu (2014), a role which she bagged.^{[citation needed]} Atlee signed her to play a doctor in Theri (2016) after seeing her performance in Pisaasu.^{[citation needed]}

Kalyani made her Telugu film debut with Dictator (2016) and has acted in Mahanubhavudu (2017), Vijetha (2018), Dear Comrade (2019) amongst others.^[4][5][6][7] She played maternal roles in several films.^[4][8][9]

Her short film debut was with Daro Mat (2017) in which she played a toxic mother-in-law.^[10] She is one of the founding members of a Mumbai-based theatre production house Clean Slate Creations along with her husband Balakrishnan Natarajan, who is also an actor in Hindi cinema.^[4]

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Telugu films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2016	Dictator	Mrs. Lakshmi Narayana
2017	Mahanubhavudu	Anand's mother
2018	Vijetha	Lakshmi
	Geetha Govindam	Neelu's mother
	Shailaja Reddy Alludu	Chaitu's mother
	Kavacham	Vijay's mother
	Padi Padi Leche Manasu	Vaishali's mother
2019	Dear Comrade	Bobby's mother
	ABCD: American Born Confused Desi	Aravind's mother
2020	Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo	Nandini's mother
	Bheeshma	Kalyani
	Solo Brathuke So Better	Virat's mother
2021	FCUK: Father Chitti Umaa Kaarthik	Umaa's mother
	Varudu Kaavalenu	Karthik's relative
2022	Aadavallu Meeku Johaarlu	Saradamma
	Kotha Kothaga	Padma
	Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali	Sumithra
	The Ghost	Dr. Iyer
	Meet Cute	Sashikala	TV series
2023	Waltair Veerayya	Vikram’s mother
	Amigos	Siddharth's mother
	Ravanasura	Hanumanth Rao’s wife
	Rangabali	Shaurya’s mother
2024	Siddharth Roy	Siddhartha Roy's mother
	The Family Star	Wedding aunty
	Mr. Bachchan	Jikki's mother
	Zebra	Surya's mother
2025	The 100	Vikranth's mother

Tamil films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Settai	House owner
2014	Saivam	Meenakshi
	Pisaasu	Janaki Soundarrajan
2015	Oru Naal Iravil	Shekhar's wife
2016	Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam	Manoja's mother
	Theri	Forensic examiner
	Remo	Kavya's mother
2017	Kuttram 23	Dr. Tulsi
	Mupparimanam	Kathir's mother
	Daro Mat	Divya's mother-in-law	Short Film
	Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru	Priya's mother
2018	Sarkar	Sundar's mother
	Thuppakki Munai	Bose's mother
2019	Embiran	Priyan's mother
	Lisaa	Lisaa's mother
2021	Master	College staff member
2022	Nitham Oru Vaanam	Arjun's mother
2024	Indian 2	Chitra Varadharajan

Hindi films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Gori Tere Pyaar Mein	Sriram's sister-in-law