19 Facts About Kani Kusruti

Kani Kusruti is an Indian actress known primarily for her work in Malayalam films.

Kani Kusruti first gained recognition in 2009 with the film Kerala Cafe, in which her performance was critically acclaimed.

Kani Kusruti has since starred in the independent films All We Imagine as Light and Girls Will Be Girls.

Kani Kusruti's parents had dropped their last names to erase the social hierarchy marker that comes with last names in India.

At 15, she invented her last name "Kani Kusruti" to fill in a requirement in her class 10th exam application.

Kani Kusruti grew up in Thiruvananthapuram, where she got introduced to the Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre, "a common platform for theatre practitioners".

Kani Kusruti later moved to Thrissur, where she enrolled in the theatre arts program at the Thrissur School of Drama, between 2005 and 2007.

Kani Kusruti completed her theatre education at the L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq, where she studied physical theatre for two years.

At Abhinaya, Kani Kusruti made her theatre debut in Baudhayana's classic farce Bhagavadajjukam.

Kani Kusruti played the lead role of Vasantsena in the production from 2000 to 2006.

Kani Kusruti rendered the part of Kamala in M G Jyotish's stage adaptation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha.

In 2009, after returning from L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq, Kani Kusruti appeared in the anthology film Kerala Cafe, in the segment "Island Express" directed by Shankar Ramakrishnan.

In 2011, Kani Kusruti joined the renowned touring theatre company Footsbarn to work on a new production of Shakespeare's Tempest.

Kani Kusruti played Miranda in the resulting performance "The Indian Tempest".

Kani Kusruti played the part of Advocate Tresa, a lawyer who joins in on the investigation for her brother's murder.

Kani Kusruti's mother Dr Jayasree AK, a community medicine specialist and social activist, lectures at Pariyaram Medical College, and is a regular guest on talk shows.

Kani Kusruti identifies herself as an atheist and a rationalist.

Kani Kusruti has claimed that filmmakers even approached her mother to convince her to give in to their demands.

Kani Kusruti chose to go back to theatre, but she couldn't earn enough in that industry to make a living.