About C. I. Parameswaran Pillai
Lived 1898 – 1979 (aged 80–81). C. I. Parameswaran Pillai was a stage actor and actor.
C. I. Parameswaran Pillai was an Indian actor from Kerala. Winning the national honor Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1960, he is the first theatre person from Kerala to win this award.
Biography C. I. Parameswaran Pillai was born in 1898 at Aluva in present-day Ernakulam district of Kerala. Pillai, who had shown a talent for acting in plays since his school days, became active in amateur theatre scene during his college years.
Pillai, a socialist by political affiliation, contested the 1954 Rajya Sabha elections from the Travancore–Cochin assembly constituency as a Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate and lost to N.C. Shekhar of the Communist Party of India.
Parameswaran Pillai died in 1979. Tyagaseema was also Prem Nazir's first film. It was Pillai who suggested Prem Nazir to this film and changed his name from Abdul Khader to Prem Nazir.
Awards and honors Winning the Sangeet Natak Akademi award, in 1960, he is the first theatre person from Kerala to win this award. The road in front of the Thiruvananthapuram District Court in Vanchiyoor is named after him.
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Indian actor (1898–1979)
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C. I. Parameswaran Pillai was born in 1898.
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C. I. Parameswaran Pillai died in 1979.
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