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Usharani is a Actor born on 29 may 1956

Usharani

Usharani
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Birth 29 may 1956
Death 20 june 2020 (at 64 years)

Usharani is an Indian film actress who acted prominently in Malayalam films. She was a lead actress during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She had acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Hindi films.

Biography

Usharani was born as eldest among three children at Chennai to Tamilian Father Mothi and a Malayali mother Sudeshini. She hails from Varkkala, Kerala. Her father was a Saurashtra Oriental Arts cloth merchant. She has two younger sisters, Sangeetha Raman and Renjini. She studied at Church Park Presentation Convent, Chennai. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Her mother died when Usha was 19. She started movie career as a child artist.

She is married to Malayalam movie director N. Sankaran Nair on 1971. The couple has a son Vishnu born on 1981.

Usually with

Prem Nazir
Prem Nazir
(15 films)
Meena
Meena
(15 films)
Adoor Bhasi
Adoor Bhasi
(15 films)
Sankaradi
Sankaradi
(15 films)
Bahadoor
Bahadoor
(14 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Usharani (47 films)

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Actress

Thenkasipattanam
Thenkasipattanam (2000)
, 2h30
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Paul Michael, Lal, Samyuktha Varma, Geetu Mohandas
Roles Sangeetha's aunty
Rating75% 3.787963.787963.787963.787963.78796
Kannan and Dasappan are two rowdies in their village. Shathrugnan. a newcomer, is in love with Dasappan' s sister, Devootty, but she is not interested in him. Shathru joins Kannan's and Dasappan's firm, KD & Company, as the manager, in an attempt to win the love of Devootty. KD & Company keeps as hostage a music troupe who comes to their village to perform. The main singer of that troupe, Sangeetha, gets expelled from her home because of this and Kannan and Dasappan give her refuge, at the insistence of Devootty.
Pathram
Pathram (1999)

Directed by Joshiy
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Suresh Gopi, Murali, Manju Warrier, N F Varghese (N F വർഗ്ഗീസ്‌), Biju Menon, Spadikam George
Roles Outhakkutty's wife
Rating70% 3.528663.528663.528663.528663.52866
Nandagopal (Suresh Gopi), an associate editor with Keralareshmi, one of the leading dailies, is aggressive and daring and enjoys a good reputation among the media circle. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Nandan is the son of Venugopal, a daring journalist who was killed by textile mafia long back. Nandan, in Kochi meets Sekharan (Murali), an old naxalite who is running Jagratha, a newspaper which is feared by political class. Sekharan's outspoken and belligerent nature had earned him more enemies than friends. He is constantly fighting Vishwathan (N. F. Varghese), who rules Kochi with his muscle and money.
Kanmadam
Kanmadam (1998)
, 2h42
Directed by A. K. Lohithadas
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Manju Warrier, Paul Michael, Lal, Mala Aravindan, Siddique
Rating72% 3.6341853.6341853.6341853.6341853.634185
A thug, Vishwanathan, leaves the city to the village where a deceased man named Damodaran lived. Damodaran's grandmother was waiting for her grandson's return, unaware of his death. Vishwanathan falls in love with a high-tempered young woman named Bhanu before his best friend Johny came for him. But would Vishwanathan reveal the truth to Bhanu that, he and his friend Johny accidentally killed Damodaran.
Samantharangal
Samantharangal (1998)
, 1h52
Directed by Balachandra Menon
Genres Drama
Actors Madhu, Balachandra Menon, Sukumari, Saikumar, Maathu (Madhavi), Jose Pellissery
Roles Mary
Rating65% 3.299843.299843.299843.299843.29984
Ismail (Balachandra Menon) is a Station master of Meenakshipuram, a small town located on the borders of Kerala. He is accompanied by his family consisting of an aged ailing mother, a wife, two daughters, three sons and a grandson.
Hitler
Hitler (1996)
, 2h33
Directed by Siddique
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Mukesh, Shobana, Saikumar, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Ilavarasi
Rating72% 3.6424053.6424053.6424053.6424053.642405
The movie speaks about the life of Madhavankutty (Mammootty), locally known as "Hitler" due to his tough character, domineering personality and his uncontrolled rage at the youngsters of the area, for stalking his five young sisters. Even though he loves his family more than anything in this world, he fails to express his love. He had been looking after the family since the death of their mother. Their father Pillechan (Innocent) is married again with two daughters and his children from the first marriage do not even speak with him (Madhavankutty's uncle Gangadhara Menon is responsible for the separation between the children and Pillechan, which is revealed in a later part of the story). Madhavankutty's marriage was fixed with his cousin Gauri (Shobhana) and his sister Ammu’s (Vani Viswanath) marriage with Gauri's brother Balachandran (Mukesh). Once in Madhavankutty's absence, Balachandran sneaked in to his house to be with Ammu, but get caught which results in hostility between the two families and Madhavankutty opposes any of the decided marriages to happen between the families. Balachandran on the other hand wants to make them happen.
Mahathma
Mahathma (1996)

Directed by Shaji Kailas
Actors Suresh Gopi, Biju Menon, Ramya Krishnan, Rajan P. Dev, Biyon, Devan
Roles Nancy's Mother
Rating55% 2.751472.751472.751472.751472.75147
Devadevan (Suresh Gopi), an underworld don decides to appear in front of Justice Varma Commission, which is holding up a probe into the serial blasts that claimed hundreds of innocent lives. Devadevan's claim of divulging solid evidence of the hands of several top politicians and underworld in the blasts and communal riots that followed made many of his rivals sleepless. Just on reaching the court premise, he is shot on point blank. Severely wounded Devan is admitted in ICU, from where, his memories travels down to his early days in crime. Devadevan, a suspect under trail along with Mustafa (Biju Menon), his trusted right arm is bailed out by Khan Sahib (Rajan P. Dev), a smuggler on behalf of David Abraham (Kitty), a Dubai based underworld don. Up on release both Devan and Mustafa are provided safe accommodation at Khan's house, where he meets up Nancy (Ramya Krishnan), the daughter of Khan's second wife in her first marriage. An upcoming movie star, Nancy fells in love with Devan within short time. Devan and Mustafa commits several smuggling operations for Khan and slowly rises up in career. Up on realizing that Khan is double crossing him, David Abraham kills him and appoints Devadevan as his representative in India. Devan and Mustafa emerge as undisputed dons in the country. During that time, on a visit to Kerala, Devan meets up Harikrishnan (Ganesh Kumar), his childhood buddy undergoing a fast to protest against the new reservation policy of the government. Devan pledges to support Harikrishnan, a Namboothiri youth, who is in deep financial crisis. Hari is appointed as the second in command of Devan, who upon Devan's advice gives up his yajnopaveetham. James Kutty (Devan), a narcotic drug smuggler along with Reddiar (Sahadevan) tries all ways to finish up the empire of Devan, but all in vain. In retaliation Hari kills the son of Reddiar. Baba Rahim (N. F. Varghese), central home minister, Reddiar and James forms a league to finish off Devan. David Abraham, who was now losing turf to Devan too joins them and provides explosives and ammunition required to create a severe blast along with a communal riot that could deviate public attention from the series of corruption allegations against his men in power, including Baba Rahim. Mustafa in meantime fells in love with Saraswati (Devayani), the younger sister of Hari, who objects her sister's love towards a Muslim. Hari is shocked to find that Mustafa is supported by Devan and splits ways with him. Hari is allured by James and is used effectively to transport explosives into the city. The serial blasts breaks down Devan, who is shocked to find that his name is dragged into it effectively by David Abraham and gang. Mustafa is killed by James. Devan finishes off David Abraham and James. He was then to appear in front of Justice Varma Commission, when was shot point blank by Harikrishnan. At hospital, upon discharging from ICU, Devan is transferred to ward, where Justice Varma meets him up. But Varma plays double game, whereby removing the bullets from Devan's pistol successfully. Just minutes after the exit of Varma, Hari enters his ward and tries to shoot him up. But Devan successfully escapes. While following Devan, Hari gets into a car, but the cabbie was Koshy (Maniyan Pillai Raju), the attorney of Devan (Maniyan Pillai Raju), who locks the car from outside, in which a bomb was planted. Devan, using his remote control blows up the car killing Hari.
Mazhayethum Munpe
Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)

Directed by Kamal
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mammootty, Shobana, Annie, Sreenivasan, Sankaradi, Manju Pillai
Rating72% 3.6366753.6366753.6366753.6366753.636675
The movie starts with Rahman (Sreenivasan) going to Kolkata in search of Nandakumar Varma (Mammootty). He finally finds Nandakumar in a depressed state. Rahman compels him to return home. But he refuses. Finally, he succumbs to the pressure and complies. The film then goes to flashback mode revealing the reasons for Nandakumar's estranged state.
Ammayane Sathyam
Ammayane Sathyam (1993)
, 2h10
Directed by Balachandra Menon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Mukesh, Annie, Narendra Prasad, Balachandra Menon, Jagathy Sreekumar, Thilakan
Roles Jaganatha Varma's wife
Rating62% 3.1311953.1311953.1311953.1311953.131195
Fifteen-year-old Parvathi (Annie) witnesses her family getting murdered by Jaganatha Varma (Narendra Prasad). She runs away from them to save her life. To prevent getting caught, she disguises herself as a boy named Thomas and starts living as a servant in a house of bachelors. One of the bachelors, Omanakuttan (Mukesh) discovers that Thomas is actually a girl. After hearing her story, Omanakkuttan and his friends try to help her. Before Jaganatha Varma could kill her, Policeman S. Narayanan (Balachandra Menon) discovers his plan and saves Parvathi.