Bhagyalakshmi

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Bhagyalakshmi is a South Indian dubbing artist, actress, and activist. She works primarily in the Malayalam film industry and is most famous for dubbing actress Shobanas roles in Malayalam films.Her father, Kumaran Nair, belonged to Powaat Tharavadu in Calicut, and her mother, Bhargavi Amma, belonged to Kurupath Tharavad in Shoranur. Her parents bore five children, out of which, two lost their lives earlier.When she was three years old, her father passed away. After the death of her father, her mother tried to support the family, but when she failed, she sent Bhagyalakshmi (at the age of four) and her siblings to an orphanage in Vellimadukunnu, Kozhikode. Bhagyalakshmi spent her next three years in the orphanage. According to her, Amma asked me, can we go to a place. I was all excited about my first bus travel. We went to a place and Amma disappeared. Someone told me that Amma left me there and went back. I started crying hard but no one was there to console me. Days after I learned that it was an orphanage and realised that my life is going to be here. Still, the orphanage is a fear for me, from there I have stated feeling loneliness in my life..When her grandmother, Kamalakshi, learned of Bhagyalkshmi and her siblings staying at the orphanage, she took them to her residence in Saidapet, Chennai. In Chennai, her grandmother was a teacher and taught Malayalam to the actresses like Sharada in the film industry. Sometime later, her mother came to Chennai and took Bhagyalakshmi to stay with her in Kodambakkam, Chennai, while her siblings stayed with her grandmother.At that time, her mother was suffering from uterine cancer but continued to earn to give Bhagyalakshmi a better life. Her elder siblings were studying in college in Coimbatore. With time, her mothers condition began deteriorating, so, Bhagyalakshmi took charge of the house and took care of her mother.While at a hospital, her mother decided to give Bhagyalakshmi for adoption. When Bhagyalakshmi came to know about this, she inquired her mother who told her to go to her adoptive parents because she would die soon. She wanted Bhagyalakshmi to be adopted because both her siblings were adults and could take care of themselves. Bhagyalakshmi did not agree with her mother and went to her grandmother, telling her about the adoption. After which, her mother and grandmother quarrelled. A few days after the incident, her mother passed away. According to Bhagyalaksmi, she realized later that her mother didnt want Bhagyalakhmi to stay with her grandmother due to the fear that she would make her work in the film industry.After her mothers death, her grandmother married her elder sister away, but she returned after breaking her marriage. Soon, it became hard for her grandmother to feed so many mouths, so, she began pressurizing Bhagyalakshmi to work in the industry.At the age of ten in 1972, she started her career as a dubbing artist for the role of a child in a film. Her first notable work was in the 1977 Malayalam film Aparadhi..As Bhagyalakshmi got older, her grandmother began to pressure her more to do acting. She did not like acting at that time. In 1973, Bhagyalakshmi made her debut as an actress with the Malayalam film Manassu. By the time she was seventeen, she had acted in the Malayalam films like Chamaram (1980), Manassinte Theerthayathra (1981), and Dheera (1982). Her grandmother pressurized her to pursue acting, but due to lack of interest, she was often called out by directors. She left acting after Dheera (1982).Her other famous film as a dubbing artist was Kolilakkam (1981; Malayalam) as Suma (main), played by Indian actress and politician Sumalatha.