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Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai

Other names of Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai: Shobhana
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Shobana Shobana was a popular Tamil television actress, st >> Read More... Chandrakumar Pillai known by the short name 'Shobana' is a well renowned Bharatnatyam artist and film actress. She is proficient in several languages such as English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil and worked in 200 such films. For her phenomenal performance in 1993's 'Manichitrathazhu' and 2001's 'Mitr, My Friend', she won two National Film Award for Best Actress. The first film is a Malayalam psychological horror film based on cataclysm happened in Alummoottil Tharavadu, which is a famous Travancore family. The film turned out to be one of the most successful films in Alummoottil Tharavadu, which is a famous Travancore family. The film turned out to be one of the most successful films in Malayalam film industry.

And many remakes were made in several languages. One such is Akshay Kumar's 'Bhool Bhulaiya'. In 2001, Revathi's 'Mitr, My Friend' was one of its kinds since it's script was English partly directed in U.S. and India and all the crew were the woman.

The film portrays Shobana marrying to a software engineer Prithvi based in California. After their marriage, they settle in California where Lakshmi finds difficult to cope up with the surrounding and existing culture. Anyhow, the couple manages and within their year of marriage, they are blessed with a daughter named Divya. Fast forwarding to 17 years, Divya is in her adolescent and free-spirited girl. Thus the tension between mother-daughter increases and leads to quarrels. Prithvi understands both the sides of life. The film takes the turn when Lakshmi ends up making an online friend named 'mitr' and shares her concern. In return, she was advised to give some space and explore her interest despite becoming too committed to the family.

However when Lakshmi tries to cope up with the culture and decides to give some space to her daughter. At last, the story takes an astonishing climax when Lakshmi urges her online friend mitr to meet her in person at the Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. It turns out that his friend is none other than Prithvi. Due to her dedicated efforts in the field of classical dance and arts, she was awarded ‘Padma Shri’ by the Indian Government. She was also given 'Kala Ratna' Award in 2014 by the Kerala Government.

Shobana Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)

BORN TODAY


Born: 28 March 1990

Age Now 34

Meera Anil - (TV-Actress)

Born: 28 March 1973

Age Now 51

Devi Ajith - (TV-Actress)

Born: 28 March 1975

Age Now 49

Sudheesh - (Movie Actor)

Born: 28 March 1986

Age Now 38

Sreejith Vijay - (Movie Actor)

Born: 28 March 1948

Lived For 68 Years

I. V. Sasi - (Director)

Born: 28 March 1997

Age Now 27

Anu Emmanuel - (Movie Actress)

Born: 28 March 1977

Age Now 47

Abrid Shine - (Director)

Born: 28 March 1928

Lived For 46 Years

Vayalar Ramavarma - (Lyricist)