Trivia

Miss Kumari has won two Madras State Award for Best Actress for her performances in Aniyathi (1955) and Aana Valarthiya Vanampadi (1961).

Her fame reached a fever pitch in 1954 with the release of Neelakuyil, where she starred alongside Sathyan. Neelakuyil was a huge success at the box office and wins the President's Silver Medal and marks the first time this honor had been bestowed on a South Indian film. It is now regarded a landmark film in Malayalam film history.

Miss Kumari has, in her career spanning 18 years done, 34 films.

Miss Kumari was totally cut off from the world of cinema during her last days. She lived in isolation, indifferent of what was happening around her. Some Kochi-based film journalists who had met her knew what was happening. She seemed to be tormented, in a state of mental agony and fear.

In 1963, Miss Kumari married Hormis Thaliath, an engineer at F.A.C.T Kochi. She immediately retired from the industry to focus on family life. The couple had three children: Johnny, Thomas, and Babu. Johnny is in the finance business, Thomas is a Computer Engineer in California and Babu is a Professor in the Centre of German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.

Miss Kumari Memorial Stadium was built in Bharananganam, which was inaugurated by veteran actor Prem Nazir.

She did her primary education at Bharanganam Sacred Hearts High School, an all girls high school run by The Franciscan Clarist Congregation Of Sisters.

She was an Indian actress working in the Malayalam film industry between 1949 and 1969.

In the 50's and early 60's she was the most prominent female lead in the Malayalam film industry.

After her studies, she worked briefly as a teacher at Bharanganam Sacred Hearts High School (where she studied and went on school too).

Another film in which she starred, Padatha Paingili (1957) won the President's Silver Medal, being the second Malayalam film to do so.

She took on the stage name Miss Kumari on the sets of her second film, Nalla Thanka.

She made her film debut in the 1949 film Vellinakshatram.

Miss Kumari was rushed to Jawaharlal Memorial Hospital, Udyogamandal, following a stomach ailment but she breathed her last on the way.

Miss Kumari was recognized after her 1950 blockbuster film Nalla Thanka where she essayed the role of NallaThanka. Nalla Thanka was a remake of the Tamil movie Nalla Thankal which was made in 1935.