Kishori Ballal

Biography:

Kishori Ballal was  born in year 1937/1938 in mangaluru she was an Indian actress who was mainly known for her work in the Kannada cinema. She is best known for playing the character of “Kaveri Amma,” Shah Rukh Khan’s mother in the Bollywood film ‘Swades’ (2004). Kishori Ballal was born in 1937 (age 82 years at the time of death), in Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka.

Kishori Ballal and her husband were trained in acting from Dr Siva Ram Karanth and Vysarya Ballal. Later, she worked in an advertisement produced under ‘Durga Khote Productions.’ In 1960, she debuted in the Kannada film, ‘Ivalentha Hendthi.

She performed in various theatre plays in 1970, which were later translated in Kannada also. She was married to a Bharatanatyam dancer, N Sripathi Ballal, a Hindu from the Bunt community. [1] N Sripathi Ballal hails from Mangalore. The couple got married in 1950. She is also known for some of her remarkable performances in a few Bollywood films, like Swades (2004), Lafangey Parindey (2010), and Aiyyaa (2012). She acted in the films of different languages, including Marathi, Kannada, Hindi, Tulu, and Konkani.

In her career span of 15 years, she acted in more than 70 films. Some of her popular films include Ek Alag Mausam (2003), Quick Gun Murugun (2003), Ambari (2009), Kempe Gowda (2011), Bombay Mittai (2015), and Kahi (2016).

she won awards in1984 in kannada Rajyotsava Kannada nataka academy prashasthi .In 2005 international india film academy awards for best performance in supporting female in swades and 2014 SMT Lakshmi Bai Award for acting