Kalamandalam Rajan

Kalamandalam Rajan was a Kathakali exponent from Kerala, India. He has received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2009, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Gurupooja award 2006.

Biography Kalamandalam Rajan was born in 1931 at Ezhikkara, North Paravur in Ernakulam district of Kerala to Sreedhara Panikar of Nellipuzha house in Aroor and Kochukuttyamma of Ezhikkara Kadakkara Erappath house. After school, he studied and paracticed dance. During this period, he saw Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Ashan performing Poothanamoksham Kathakali. He had performed in many stages India and abroad with Margi Kathakali Vidyalayam, Thiruvananthapuram, and was part of the Kathakali Festival conducted by Sangeet Natak Akademi in New Delhi in 1993.

He died on 14 June 2012, at the age of 81 at his house in Thrippunithura, Ernakulam district.

Family He and his wife Sulochana had one daughter.

Awards and honors Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2009 Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Gurupooja award 2006 Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Memorial Award 2001 Kalamandalam Karunakaran Smaraka Award 2007 Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon Memorial Kathakali Award bestowed by Kerala Kalamandalam 2008