20 Facts About Pushpavalli

Kandala Venkata Pushpavalli Tayaramma, known mononymously as Pushpavalli, was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Telugu and Tamil films.

Pushpavalli's biggest hit was the Telugu film Bala Nagamma, where she played an important supporting role.

Pushpavalli continued playing supporting roles well into the late 1960s.

Pushpavalli married I V Rangachari in 1940 but they began living apart from 1946.

Later, Pushpavalli was in a relationship with actor Gemini Ganesan with whom she had two daughters, Rekha, a noted actress in Hindi film industry, and Radha.

Pushpavalli was born as Kandala Venkata Pushpavalli Tayaramma to Kandala Ramakotamma and Kandala Thathachary in Pentapadu village of West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh.

Pushpavalli married a Lawyer named I V Rangachari in about 1940.

Pushpavalli had two children from her marriage to Rangachari.

Pushpavalli graduated to doing adult roles with hardly any break from playing a child star.

Pushpavalli did only a few roles as female lead, and in between did many films where she played the second lead.

Pushpavalli was never a top-level star, nor did she receive any critical acclaim for her acting talent.

Pushpavalli next worked with Ganesan in the Tamil film Chakradhari, where she was the heroine, and he played a small role.

Pushpavalli did a few more films with Ganesan, the two got along very well, and entered into a relationship, despite the fact that both of them were married to other people.

Since Pushpavalli was still legally married to Rangachari ; that option was not available to her, and it was impossible for her to marry anyone else.

Pushpavalli did these roles in order to support her daughters, whom she brought up single-handedly in a very frugal way.

Pushpavalli subsequently married K Prakash, a cinematographer from Madras, and she legally changed her name to K Pushpavalli.

Pushpavalli gave birth to two more children, Dhanalakshmi and the dancer Seshu.

Pushpavalli recalled that her mother often spoke about him and added that despite never having lived with him, she felt his presence all through.

The fact that Rekha became so successful in films was a source of great satisfaction to Pushpavalli, as was the fact that her third daughter, Radha settled very respectably in marriage to Syed Usman, a former Bollywood model in 1976.

Pushpavalli died in 1991 of ailments associated with diabetes in Madras.