Archana Jose Kavi
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Kavi in January 2010
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Archana Jose Kavi 4 January 1990 New Delhi, India |
| Residence | Kochi, India |
| Occupation | Actress, Television presenter |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Spouse(s) | Abish Mathew. |
Archana Jose Kavi (born 4 January 1990), better known by her stage name Archana Kavi, is an Indian film actress and a television host. She made her acting debut in Neelathaamara (2009) scripted by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and directed by Lal Jose.
Archana was born in New Delhi to Jose Kaviyil(Kannur), a senior journalist, and Rosamma. Jose Kaviyil's family is basically from Kannur Dist(Kerala). She has an elder brother named Ashish Kavi. She was raised in Delhi and studied in St. Xavier's School, Delhi. In 2006, Archana moved from Delhi to Ramapuram in Kerala to do a Bachelor of Business Administration course at the Mar Augustinose College. She stated that she came from a "typical Malayali middle-class family and acting was never considered a profession by us". She said that she wanted to be a journalist initially since her father was one and later wanted to be an RJ but that people discouraged her.
Archana applied for an internship at the television channel Yes Indiavision and assisted in the production of certain programmes. After a year, she anchored the show Bloody Love on the same channel, while she was spotted by director Lal Jose, who offered her the lead female role in his film in March 2009.
She made her cinematic debut in 2009 with the highly successful Neelathaamara, portraying the role of Kunjimalu, a maid in an old Nair Tharavadu (ancestral home) who falls for the young master of the house. Director Lal Jose said that "Archana has an in-born talent". Her role won lot of critical accolades. In her next venture titled Mummy & Me, which narrated the tale of the tumultuous relationship between a modern-day teenager and her mother, she played the lead role of a rebellious teenager named Jewel. Archana stated the character Jewel was "so very like the real me". But her following release Best of Luck where she reunited with her Neelathamara co-stars Kailash and Rima Kallingal,failed to make an impact at the box office. She made her Tamil debut in the period film Aravaan in which she played a tribal character named Chimby.
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