
Acting
Devayani
Born
1974-06-22 (52)
Place of birth
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 titles
Devayani is an Indian actress. She starred 75 films in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam, along with a few Hindiand one in Bengali. She received the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for her performances in the films Kadhal Kottai, Surya Vamsam and Bharathi. She has also appeared in the films Bharathi, Friends and Azhagi as well as in the Sun TV series Kolangal and Muthaaram.
Known for
10.0Lal Salam is an Indian entertainment talk show hosted by actor Mohanlal on Amrita TV. The show is themed around Mohanlal's film career, it also introduces and honours humanitarians and social workers, and has other interactive and performance segments. It is the first television presentation by Mohanlal, hosted alongside Meera Nandan.
Lal Salam
2017
7.2A young scion of a powerful family with a long history of violence decides to put an end to the bloodshed which leads him to a path of self discovery.
Aravinda Sametha... Veera Raghava
2018
7.3A musician is gifted with the supernatural ability to see a couple's destiny whenever they kiss. But when he sees the grim fate of the woman he loves, he must use his powers to defy destiny itself.
Kiss
2025
7.1Anand is an environmental activist who lives in Mumbai. A chance exchange programme takes him to Hyderabad and here, a chance encounter with Satyam results in him taking over the Janatha Garage from the latter.
Janatha Garage
2016
6.9A man values his best friend more than anything else in the world. One day he confesses a dark secret from their childhood to his wife, which is overheard by another. Once the secret gets out, the friendship is destroyed.
Friends
2001
3.7Two warring lords are fighting over water and bloodshed. When the wife of one of them decides to send her son away from the land to a safe space, he returns to the same battlefield, much to her exasperation.
Madhagaja
2021
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
7.3A musician is gifted with the supernatural ability to see a couple's destiny whenever they kiss. But when he sees the grim fate of the woman he loves, he must use his powers to defy destiny itself.
Kiss
2025
3.7Two warring lords are fighting over water and bloodshed. When the wife of one of them decides to send her son away from the land to a safe space, he returns to the same battlefield, much to her exasperation.
Madhagaja
2021
7.1A middle-class family battles financial hurdles and personal setbacks while pursuing their dream of owning a home in the bustling city.
3BHK
2025
6.8Revanth and Mouni dream big when it comes to their lives. But with their social standing and gender proved to be a hindrance, will they manage to find a way to let their love prevail?
Love Story
2021
6.2Haunted by an astrological prophecy, Kamsaraja relentlessly torments his sister's family, believing her child will be his doom. Even in imprisonment, Krishna protects the family from Kamsaraja's evil plans.
Devaki Nandana Vasudeva
2024
5.0Anuragam is a film set in Kochi, India that explores the complexities of modern-day relationships through the lives of three couples. The story follows Mercy, a single mother and banker who is loved by her manager, Jose, but still grieving the loss of her husband. Meanwhile, popular music composer Shankar is preparing to enter a new relationship after his separation from his wife, Devika, a successful baker. Their daughter, Janani, and Mercy's son, Aswin, are classmates and friends, with their friendship potentially blossoming into romance. Music plays an important role in the film, which ultimately reminds viewers that love can happen at any age and make life worth living.
Anuragam
2023
2010s · 8 titles
7.2A young scion of a powerful family with a long history of violence decides to put an end to the bloodshed which leads him to a path of self discovery.
Aravinda Sametha... Veera Raghava
2018
7.1Anand is an environmental activist who lives in Mumbai. A chance exchange programme takes him to Hyderabad and here, a chance encounter with Satyam results in him taking over the Janatha Garage from the latter.
Janatha Garage
2016
5.1Based on the journey of the legendary Telugu actor, filmmaker and ex-Chief Minister Late Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri.
N.T.R: Kathanayakudu
2019
2.5A taxi driver is befriended by a medium who tells him that a spirit is trying to communicate with him. Who is this spirit and what does it want?
Strawberry
2015
7.5A young man in order to marry the love of his life, he has to hide the fact that he can't drive from the girl's mother.
Kalavani Mappillai
2018
5.1Nandhakumar, an honest police officer, lays a trap to capture Gopi Krishnan, a corrupt town planner. Though his attempts fail, Nandhakumar is not ready to give up.
Oru Naal Varum
2010
Saga, an unassuming young man, leaves his village and goes to Malaysia where he becomes a detective and takes on an illegal drugs racket.
Sagaptham
2015
1.5Shivaramakrishnan is a government employee who struggles to make ends meet. In order to earn some quick money, he and his friends start a daycare center!
Sarkar Colony
2011
2000s · 23 titles
6.9A man values his best friend more than anything else in the world. One day he confesses a dark secret from their childhood to his wife, which is overheard by another. Once the secret gets out, the friendship is destroyed.
Friends
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Guruvamma
2002
5.7Vallarasu is the honest Deputy Commissioner of Police who has arrested Wasim Khan, a terrorist from Pakistan. His wife is Anjali, and they both have two children. Vallarasu kills his senior police officer and father-in-law because he knows the latter is working alongside terrorists.
Vallarasu
2000
7.6An 8-year-old boy runs away from home and meets a scientist, who transforms him into a young man of 28, although mentally, he remains a child.
New
2004
7.0Ram's friends hire Maggie, a call girl, to help him get over his wife, who mistakenly believes him to be a philanderer. However, they get in trouble when Maggie ends up dead.
Panchatanthiram
2002
6.2Velayudhan, an orphan, is loved by the people in his village, as he keeps it free from unsavoury people and practices. But the local moneylender and politician get jealous and try to get rid of him.
Naran
2005
Anbu and Arun are best friends. They fall in love with Kausalya and Kavita, but have never seen each other and communicate only through letters. A freak accident changes all their lives forever.
Ninaikkatha Naalillai
2001
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Samasthanam
2002
5.9An impulsive youngster, who is furious with his mother, seeks assistance from a scientist for a way to become an adult overnight. His wish is granted and he begins look like a 28-year-old man. How will he deal with the complexities of adulthood? How will his relationship with his mother evolve?
Naani
2004
4.0Devasena decides to marry Prabhakaran after she gets a marriage proposal from his family. When she learns that she is chosen to marry his elder brother, she vows to take revenge on him.
Ainthaam Padai
2009
7.0Thenali suffers from panophobia and seeks doctor Kailash's help but the latter denies his request. Later, when Kailash goes on a vacation with his family, Thenali joins them and charms his sister.
Thenali
2000
5.5After two decades in prison, legendary factionist Chennakesava Reddy (Balakrishna) returns to Rayalaseema, seeking revenge. Standing in his way, is his son Bharath (also Balakrishna), a law-abiding police officer.
Chennakesava Reddy
2002
NRIn order to find his dream job, Satya agrees to kidnap his friend's lover. However, he abducts the wrong woman and is stuck with her.
Sema Ragalai
2004
NRKadhaludan is a 2003 Tamil film directed by Rajakumaran. The film stars Murali, Devayani, Abbas and Ramesh Khanna in lead roles.
Kadhaludan
2003
6.8Thirupathisamy, the eldest son in the family, works hard to raise his three brothers Madhavan, Kannan and Surya. However, problems arise in the family when Madhavan's wife begins to rebel against him.
Anandham
2001
8.0A biographical account of the life of the Indian freedom fighter, Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiar, who defied conventional norms to bring equality in society.
Bharathi
2000
2.6Sakthivel (R. Sarath Kumar) is the leader of his village and is adored by the people. His only brother is Selvam (Vikram) who, after completing his education in Singapore, returns to the hamlet. Both Sakthivel and his wife Lakshmi (Khushboo) are very fond of Selvam and want him to get married and live happily. Selvam is keen on marrying a girl he has seen in his dream. Sakthivel is prepared to go anywhere to find the girl. Selvam actually comes across the photograph of his dream girl Devayani (Devayani) in a TV advertisement and discovers that she is an actress . A film crew lands in the village for shooting, and Devayani, as she is called in the film too, is in the group. Sakthivel approaches her with his brother's proposal, but she insults him.
Vinnukkum Mannukkum
2001
Mayilsamy (Sathyaraj) is a petty thief who is determined to make it big in life, by hook or crook. Even it means going through a marriage with a stranger, a trusting village belle, Pappu (Devayani), deserting her soon after and warming his way into the heart of Puppy (Mumtaj), a wealthy heiress. Of course, he realises his folly by the climax.
Vivaramana Aalu
2002
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Thenkasi Pattanam
2002
7.6Shanmugam meets his childhood sweetheart after many years and employs her as his housemaid as she urgently needs a job. However, his wife creates problems when she learns about their relationship.
Azhagi
2002
6.5Appu is a taxi driver in Mumbai (Bombay). He is still haunted by the suicide of his sister who was sold to a brothel. He is still trying to find out the culprit. Here he meets Sita who is chased by Eunuch Maharani who is also responsible for the death of his sister. Maharani is the madame or kingpin of the flesh trade in Mumbai. Maharani wants the beautiful Sita for the flesh trade. Appu fights and saves Sita from Maharani. Here his friend Vignesh and his lover Kaveri die saving Appu and Sita.
Appu
2000
7.0A powerful man of a village kills a devotee on the eve of her wedding; he does this as his daughter is in love with the groom. He also seeks the help of an occult to acquire treasure until a neighboring deity comes to the rescue of this village.
Padai Veetu Amman
2002
6.2Balettan's father reveals to him on his deathbed that he has another family. He requests Balettan to take care of them, without informing his mother about it.
Balettan
2003
1990s · 22 titles
5.8Ganesh is in love with Sandhya throughout their college years, but she does not reciprocate. In his quest to gain her love, he ends up losing more than he bargained for.
Suswagatham
1998
7.5Kamali loses her bag in the railway station. Later, her bag is sent to her home, along with a letter from Surya, who found it. Kamali and Surya send letters to each other and soon fall in love.
Kadhal Kottai
1996
8.0A son assumes that his father killed his mother and in a fit of rage, he also rapes the woman who was to marry his step-brother. However, the woman decides to help him overcome his misgivings.
Kummi Paattu
1999
7.1Sakthivel, an influential man, is upset with his son Chinnarasu's careless attitude. He is further infuriated when Chinnarasu suddenly refuses to marry his cousin, Gowri.
Suryavamsam
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Pattali
1999
6.5Three Roommates Madhukumar, Benny, Surendran have struggled dreams. Surendran has fantasised about being Movie Star like Rajnikanth, Madhukumar tried to become police officer and planned married his girlfriend Shubha who is the daughter of K. R. G. Menon and Benny Kurien who was a con artist who need to support his family
Three Men Army
1995
En Uyir Nee Thaane is about a rich industrialst who raises his father's illegitimate son after the death of its mother. Prabhu is a rich industrialst who raises his father's illegitimate son after the death of its mother. His Father opposes this. Prabhu leaves home to live alone with the child.Devayani witnesses a murder and testifies against the murderer. He is convicted. The murderer's brother rapes Devayani in revenge and Devayani is kicked out of her house by her brother. She goes to her friend's house, but even there she is kicked out.Prabhu comes to her rescue....
En Uyir Nee Thaane
1998
9.0A man finds a suitable match for his sister, but turns out that the man is a drunkard and promiscuous. He falls in love with his brother-in-law's sister but due to a misunderstanding the girl begins to hate him and her wedding is arranged elsewhere.
Kizhakkum Merkkum
1998
Marumalarchi is a 1998 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Marumalarchi Bharathi.
Marumalarchi
1998
Marc Zuber Antony alias Tony (Mahesh Anand), an international smuggler, ended up in an isolated island after killing some navy officers. He decided to hide his merchandises there and he threatened the inhabitants of the island. In the process, Tony killed the island's school teacher (Girish Karnad) in front of his wife, his son Siva and his daughter Priya. Many years later, Siva (Sathyaraj) becomes rich in the city and lives with his sister Priya (Rambha) and his mother (Sujatha). Siva is haunted by his father's murder and he tries to take revenge with the help of his friend Anbu (Nizhalgal Ravi).
Sivasakthi
1996
4.5Ganesh falls for his extremely caring and helpful new neighbour, Nandini, who lives in a house opposite to his. But, when Ganesh and his parents put forth a marriage proposal, she turns them down.
Nee Varuvai Ena
1999
NRSwarnamukhi is a dancer who still loves Pandian, who left her at the altar. She eventually falls for Akash when she moves to Chennai. Just when they agree to get married, Pandian returns to her life.
Swarnamukhi
1998
5.5Prakash and Murthy have been thick friends ever since Prakash took Murthy into his house - against the wishes of his own parents - after his father killed Murthy's mother in an accident. So Murthy thinks the world of Prakash. When Prakash goes to America to study, Murthy steps out of the house after overhearing Murthy's parents scheming to send him out disgracefully.Murthy is given accomodation by an old man who is reminded of his son Govind and henceforth starts going by that name.What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
Nilavey Mugam Kaattu
1999
4.5Sathya and Vasanth are two best friends since their childhood. However, when Sathya and Pooja get engaged, he learns about a terrible truth that threatens to break his friendship with Vasanth.
Kalloori Vaasal
1996
6.3Both Kunjikrishnan and Unnikrishnan are in love with their uncles daughter.But he will only let Unnikrishnan marry her since he is a doctor and has money. So Kunjikrishnan leaves town for a while and comes back later pretending to be a swami who can heal any sickness. He tries winning his uncle over and at the same time sabotage Unnikrishnan‘s doctor reputation, leading to many hilarious situations.
Kinnaripuzhayoram
1994
Story of two college mates who fell apart. They later end up as a senior and junior in the police force.
Kinnam Katta Kallan
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Moovendhar
1998
6.0Story of a guy, who wants to end his life by suicide, but fails every time.
Kakkakum Poochakkum Kalyanam
1995
NRThotta Chinungi film starring Karthik Muthuraman, Raghuvaran, Revathi, Devayani and Nagendra Prasad.[Gopal (Raghuvaran) is in love with Bhuvana (Revathi) ever since they were kids. As adults, they get married.There are two things Gopal disapproves of, after their marriage: Bhuvana's unemployed younger brother Prasad (Nagendra Prasad) who lives with them, and Mano (Karthik), Bhuvana's childhood friend.Mano is quite handsome and a very famous singer and Bhuvana who is very fond of him, talks to him quite often on the phone. The hardworking Gopal, who loves his wife...
Thotta Chinungi
1995
Pudhumai Pithan is a 1998 Tamil film directed by Jeeva. The film stars Parthiban, Roja, Devayani and Priya Raman in lead roles.
Pudhumai Pithan
1998
5.5A musician dreams of a beautiful girl and sets out to find her. Soon after, he meets her at a wedding, but by that time his father has already fixed his marriage with someone else.
Ninaithen Vandhai
1998
10.0When Thangamani flees on his wedding day, his brother, Poomani, steps in and marries Vijaya who detests Poomani. However, as time passes by, she changes her thinking towards him.
Poomani
1996
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
10.0Lal Salam is an Indian entertainment talk show hosted by actor Mohanlal on Amrita TV. The show is themed around Mohanlal's film career, it also introduces and honours humanitarians and social workers, and has other interactive and performance segments. It is the first television presentation by Mohanlal, hosted alongside Meera Nandan.
Lal Salam
2017
Abinaya, an ambitious woman, strives to succeed in life. However, things take a turn when her half brother, Aadhi, thwarts her efforts and tries to ruin her.
Kolangal
2003

