Jagathy Sreekumar
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Jagathy Sreekumar at AMMA meeting in 2008
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| Birth name | Sreekumar Achary |
| Born | Trivandrum, Thiru-Kochi, India (present-day Kerala, India) |
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| Years active | 1975 – 2012 |
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Mallika Sukumaran (1976–1979) Shoba(1979–present) Kala(1984–present) |
| Children | Rajkumar, Parvathi, Sreelakshmi |
| Parent(s) | Jagathy N. K. Achary, Prasanna |
Sreekumar Achary, better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar, is an Indian film actor who has starred in over a 1,000 Malayalam films in a career spanning almost four decades. He's popular mainly for his comedy roles.
Jagathy is on the Guinness Book of World Records for essaying roles in more than a thousand films. He has won 5 Kerala State Film Awards for roles in various films. He has also directed two films and has written screenplays for two films. His stage name is derived from the neighbourhood of Jagathy in Thiruvananthapuram from where he hails.
Jagathy met with an accident on March 2012 and has been hospitalized for over a year. He's still recovering from his injuries. His film career has been on hold since the accident.
Sreekumar is the son of Malayalam dramatist and writer Jagathy N. K. Achary (1924–1997) (also fondly known as Jagathy) and his wife Prasanna from the famed Edavancaud family of Mavelikkara. N. K. Achary was an All India Radio employee. He has two brothers, Krishnakumar and Jameela Murali (Step brother) and a sister, Sugadamma (Step sister). Even from childhood, Jagathy Sreekumar had the dream of becoming an actor. Jagathy attended the Model School in Trivandrum, and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum. After college he worked as a Medical Representative and later became an actor.
Jagathy married Mallika Sukumaran in 1976 and divorced in 1979. He later married Shobha in 1984. They have a son, Rajkumar, and a daughter, Parvathy. He also has a daughter Sreelakshmi with his third wife Kala.
On 10 March 2012, he was seriously injured in a road accident at Panambra near the Calicut University at Tenhipalam in Malappuram dt. . He was immediately rushed to MIMS Hospital in Kozhikode, where he remained for one month. Later, he was taken to Vellore Christian Medical College for advanced treatment. He underwent multiple surgical procedures. He remained in hospital for twelve months, appearing in public for the first time in March 2013, unable to speak. In 2014, he was again taken to Vellore for further check-ups and returned to his home later. In between as part of recovery he tried walking of his own and fell down, hitting his head into a stand and getting a minor cut. Now, he is slowly recovering from the complications caused by the accident. Recently he appeared in a private channel during onam with Nedumudi Venu in which he sang old songs. He made a visit to a college function near Kottayam were his daughter Srilakshmi ran down to stage and spent some time with him on stage & later revealed that her father recognized her and she updated him about her studies and that made him really happy.
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