Kalidas Jayaram

Kalidas Jayaram (born 16 December 1993) is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam films. The son of film actors Jayaram and Parvathy, Kalidas made his debut in the Malayalam film Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal (2000) at the age of six. Later, he starred in Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum (2003), which won him the National Film Award for Best Child Artist.

In 2016, he made his debut in Tamil cinema with Meen Kuzhambum Mann Paanaiyum (2016) and returned to Malayalam with Poomaram (2018). He has since starred in the action films Vikram (2022) and Raayan (2024).

Early and personal life

Kalidas was born the elder of two children, to actors Jayaram and Parvathy in Perumbavoor, Kerala, India. He has a younger sister Malavika Jayaram. He did his schooling from Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai and his plus-two from Choice School, Cochin, Kerala. He received his Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai.

Like his father, he is good at imitating actors, and the mimicry performed during a Vijay TV award show and an advertisement for a chocolate brand made him familiar to people.

He married Tarini Kalingarayar who is thrid runner up of Miss Diva 2021, on December 8 2024.

Career

At the age of 7, he made his debut in Sathyan Anthikad's Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal (2000). He received the National Award for Best Child Artist for his second film Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum (2003), directed by Siby Malayil. Kalidas played the lead in Balaji Tharaneetharan's second directorial venture Oru Pakka Kathai. He made his debut as a lead actor in Malayalam cinema in Poomaram (2018). In 2019, Kalidas had 3 releases: Mr. & Ms. Rowdy, Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu and Happy Sardar.

Filmography

Web series

Discography

As voice artist

Short films and Music Videos

Awards